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WCDT: 2434-2438 (29 April-3 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
jasononline:
While reading the comic, I was thinking to myself, "Wow, I didn't know Jeff was into Kris Kross."
Then I saw the news post. Guess May has not been a good month for any music genre, so far.
TimO:
Today's strip is a bit of a divergence from any of the storyline arcs, aside from a bit of Hannelore's father and his inventions, which has come up a handful of times previously. It's a good strip, but it's definitely a bit of a downer for the end of the week (as I guess the news was).
Zebediah:
So what technology is Hannelore's dad working on, anyway? Let's speculate!
I'm guessing an AI simulation of the deceased. There's a guy out there (can't remember his name at the moment) who has postulated that some day we'll all be recreated as simulated AIs on a giant computer. He has further claimed that this state will actually be identical to the afterlife as described by Christianity. Heaven as massively multiplayer online afterlife, in essence, with AI simultations of us that are so good that they won't be aware that they aren't us.
If you're thinking "I can see no way this can go wrong": the TV show Caprica made interesting use of this scenario.
Border Reiver:
Caprica use of that was definitely interesting - and the whole ide of people just not being able to let go makes it a really bad idea.
Masterpiece:
I think Hannelore was just referring to the "travelling at the speed of light" part of Dora's speech. As in, her father is working on something that is inherrently a bit faster than that.
Nothing like the AI of dead people.
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