everyone carries a dumb smartphone-like hand terminal but they have to physically jack into a network access point to download new content and messages.
capitalist hellhole side-plot: tech workers are expected to do so every 15 minutes, even on days off, to ensure no missed slack/teams/etc. notifications.
we’d have to do a physical inspection of access points for data skimmers like we had to do with gas pump credit card scanners before chips were widespread.
I was about to point out that I have IoT stuff and hate AI, but my IoT stuff is mostly using zigbee instead of wifi so it can’t try to phone home…
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everyone carries a dumb smartphone-like hand terminal but they have to physically jack into a network access point to download new content and messages.
capitalist hellhole side-plot: tech workers are expected to do so every 15 minutes, even on days off, to ensure no missed slack/teams/etc. notifications.
Everyone carries a spool of cable attached to their phone
we’d have to do a physical inspection of access points for data skimmers like we had to do with gas pump credit card scanners before chips were widespread.
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You’re describing Mega Man Battle Network down to the terminology
hell yeah and here I was just using standard scifi/cyberpunk terms
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Military drones are now controlled via optical fiber.