Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
Skewbrow:
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--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 12 Jun 2015, 07:46 ---So.. we have two factions, the bio-engineered humans who went into space, and the AI builders who stayed on Earth? Which then got re-formatted to an agrarian society when *something* happened to end the AI wars? Gavia uses nanotech though, so the spaceborne haven't totally given up on computer tech.. Just the advanced thinking machines. It makes me think maybe the Praeses were maybe humans originally that where heavily modified with plant/tree DNA. Essentially giving up their humanity for greatly expanded lifespans to guide their civilization.
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I make it three groups:
* The AI builders/nanomachine builders
* The biotechnologists
* A third anti-technology factionThe first two groups were sent to different space habitats. The third ended up on Earth forced into a pre-industrialised civilisation. The actual AIs themselves could be considered a 'wild card' fourth faction; we don't know enough about what happened to them as yet.
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I am slightly siding with the two faction model. If only because I think (at least here) of nanotech as being part of biotech rather than AI+electronics. True, we more often associate nanotech with superminiaturized electronics, but may be it won't go that way, and the nanobots are closer to being biological rather than AI. In other words, the war was about Carbon vs. Silicone.
Thrudd:
Or, and this is my own speculation here, countries and factions did what they always have done and are still doing.
The presence of AI or not and political and religious differences may have been the lubricant to the wheels of war but the axle and treads of war are always the same in the end - kill them and take their stuff.
improvnerd:
My current guess is that Alice is the butt-rocket in the far future.
Zebediah:
So she's a space probe full of porn that attained sentience?
osaka:
According to Pīntsize's math, Alice would have become porn when the blink happened.
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