Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3596-3600 (23rd October - 27th October 2017)
hedgie:
Hmm. I wonder if it was internal what the effects of a black fax would be on him.
Storel:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 25 Oct 2017, 15:35 ---Hmm. I wonder if it was internal what the effects of a black fax would be on him.
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Hmm... You mean if it were completely internal and he could simply "see" in his mind whatever was faxed to him? Good question.
I was imagining that he has an output slot somewhere so the arriving fax would simply emerge from his body. As an accountant he probably has to have a hardcopy for his files, so that an auditor doesn't have to access Punchbot's own internal memory. Or perhaps he receives the fax and stores it in internal memory and then sends it to his wireless fax receiver/printer for output? Or, for security reasons, would he have to go back to his desk and plug a network cord into himself -- hidden behind one of his "ears", perhaps -- so he could output it more securely?
Shjade:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 25 Oct 2017, 03:13 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 25 Oct 2017, 01:58 ---As with the holo-doctor, why does one of those robots use a tablet? I think the most egregious examples are the cyborgs and androids from Ghost in the Shell that interface with computers through keyboards like this.
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I assumed the point of the manual interface in that scene was to avoid neurally interfacing with the entity that could hack minds.
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Basically this. Directly connecting to a website would open you, yourself, up to all the potential threats that would otherwise only be directed at your mobile device if you decided it was more convenient to do it yourself all the time. Considering the list of potential threats in online spaces only seems to be growing over time, that sounds like taking unnecessary risks with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Security issues aside, I would think it's also good for compartmentalization: maybe you don't want to occupy your personal processing power with a given task, so leave that to your tablet/laptop/whatever while you focus on what's more important to you. I realize an AI would be capable of far broader and better multitasking than humans, but that doesn't mean they'd always WANT to be operating that way on everything they do.
And who knows, maybe the tactile interface satisfies a certain need in itself. A sense of anchoring in your own body in maintaining separation between the You that is walking down the street, navigating the web via tablet, and your far-flung consciousness navigating the greater world around you via increasingly networked connections throughout your society.
DaiJB:
:laugh: May is gonna be so pissed - a tweenage girl can get a job at the repair shop, but she herself can't offer them anything more useful than her incredible dancing skills...
Perfectly Reasonable:
Sam knows the word 'ectothermic'! So she -reads- about snakes too.
How does Punkbot see what she's doodling?
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