Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
improvnerd:
Something just occurred to me on rereading that last comic:
Is Ardent and Gavia's society also being preserved at a lower-than-possible tech level? We knew before there were restrictions on AIs, and now we know that there are limits on what the Praesides share with the spaceborne.
So are the spaceborne Amish with nanotech?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: improvnerd on 08 Jun 2015, 01:39 ---Is Ardent and Gavia's society also being preserved at a lower-than-possible tech level? We knew before there were restrictions on AIs, and now we know that there are limits on what the Praesides share with the spaceborne.
--- End quote ---
My guess is that Praeses only allow the humans access to technology that they either need to remain healthy and happy or to provide them with harmless distractions to stop them from building nuclear weapons and trying to kill each other (and everything else) with them.
I suspect that, like Alice, they are programmed to 'serve and protect' with worryingly few (if any) limitations on how they go about achieving those goals.
KOK:
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 08 Jun 2015, 00:07 ---Twoflower was basically a massively naïve tourist who thought the best of everyone no matter how many threats they make and weapons they are pointing at him, who thought all the dangerous adventures he had were thrilling and thoroughly enjoyable. The other character he had them with, Rincewind, disagreed mightily on that point.
--- End quote ---
Rincewind: (Name I have forgotten), from where no one ever comes back.
TwoFlower: I must see that!
improvnerd:
Y'know, now that I think about it, given her attitude, could Alice be a reformed May in the far future?
hedgie:
--- Quote from: KOK on 08 Jun 2015, 02:26 ---Rincewind: (Name I have forgotten), from where no one ever comes back.
TwoFlower: I must see that!
--- End quote ---
Just as long as he doesn't forget his iconograph, so that others may know of the experience.
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