Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 4181-4185 (20th - 24th, January 2020)
jwhouk:
The reasoning that some AI's with APC bodies have cell phones "built in" to those that not are about the same as some iPads that have SIMs to those that are strictly wifi compatible.
I suspect the option not to have "built in" cell is a more popular option, as cell technology can result in those with built in cell service suddenly in a lurch if their "standard" is no longer supported. Consider cell phones from 25 years ago vs. those today.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Wingy on 20 Jan 2020, 05:27 ---Having a separate cell phone may be a performative thing like reading a physical book is.
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I often show people things on my phone, even when out. So having a portable non-attached screen, at least, seems a practical thing, to show people (not necessarily other AIs) stuff on - and why not use it in the already established packaging?
Wingy:
I always imagined an AI could attach a cable and send audio/stills/video to another AI or a display device like any other computer might. I mean, how *did* Jeremy and Seven burn out cables during robosex...
But yeah, good point, as well as the point on technology moving on after one's chassis has been committed to manufacturing.
Dngrsone:
Additionally, just like AIs like to physically read rather than screen internally, they may prefer interacting externally when it comes to phone calls.
Also, considering that my employer requires me to use one of their phones for business which is entirely separate from the one I use personally... there is that.
Pilchard123:
--- Quote from: Wingy on 20 Jan 2020, 04:44 ---And finally for today's musing, if Clinton gets told by Faye to cover his hand to keep it from getting all cruddy internally, why doesn't she insist Mays' hands have a covering?
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For a completely-out-of-the-air guess: May is an AI, and AIs in Faye's experience already know that they should be careful not to get their joints all cruddy. It doesn't matter that May has only had a body for a relatively-short time, it's just not something that Faye thinks is necessary. Clinton's hand is not a normal human hand, so she assumes she has to warn him, even though he's had the hand ever since it withered into a claw a firework went off while he was holding it, much longer than May has had a body.
For what I think is more likely: eh, Jeph's not infallible. He probably just forgot.
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