Re: [TML] Tech Estimate Question: James White's Educator Tapes?
Bruce Johnson 08 Aug 2014 17:20 UTC
On Aug 8, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:
> On 8/8/2014 12:42 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>>> 1. What Traveller (Classic/Mega/Mongoose) Tech Level would be
>>> > represented by such recordings?
>>> >
>> This is essentially personality recording and implanting.
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>> I would put it at ‘Not Available Here’ TL, because the canowyrms it represents. (if you can implant the personality and skills of an alien Doctor into your head, there is much much mischief that can be done doing it between members of the same species. See, for example, the Joss Whedon series ‘Dollhouse’<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135300/>, which is essentially the same concept.)
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>> It is much more likely that expert systems + robotic surgery bots (which we have now) would be utilized.
>
> Isn't this actually in canon, though? Adventure 6: Expedition to Zhodane had the technology and formed a core part of the adventure.
Wouldn’t know...I don’t have that one. How did they avoid the ‘implant false skills, personality and memories in someone else for nefarious purposes’ problem?
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Bruce Johnson
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