I Need A Better Brain
This is called a cyberbrain and in Ghost In The Shell anime, this helps them to communicate through wireless means. Anyone with a cyberbrain talks to each other like having your handphone sending files via Bluetooth. Interestingly enough, cyberbrain has their own firewall and barriers, therefore making hacking impossible unless you allow it to. This allows for alienating society where everyone is so comfortable exchanging information all done in their head while their body is doing something else. The term ‘ghost’ is actually a soul that could not be proven by science but somehow it is there to make up for each individual. A full body that was duplicated could not function if no ‘ghost’ was present.
Who knows, you might even have Vegas vacations as a simulation while you’re waiting for a bus!
July 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Funny you mentioned that there are barriers to prevent the brain from being hacked because more than half the time in the series, everyone seems to have their cyberbrains hacked to hell. If this were real too, it’s not implausible, I mean how often does the rest of the society protect their own computers?
I don’t think it’ll cause isolation anyway. They said the same thing about the walkman, mp3 players, mobile phones, personal computers, etc. It’s not different. What matters is what we can do with it. Why wouldn’t we want to anyway?
July 16th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Ah, good that you brought the subject up. You see, aside from having a security like firewall, they have this barrier which is basically a maze. A good hacker can navigate the maze with ease - same thing like how the Major and Batou hacked into people’s eye. Remember an episode where Togusa was watching isolated children making barrier maze that nobody can crack easily and the maze could be patterned and sold to security company?
Yes, I don’t think it will cause isolation anyway but we will never know what will happen if the technology do mature in the real world.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:29 am
The barrier is their version of a firewall. As opposed to an attack barrier which is an offensive barrier that’s designed to short the incoming attacker. Hence when they do a manual hack, they wear those things around their necks which act as both an encrypted network and a buffer in the case of a data spike or an attempted overload on the cyberbrain itself cause by something like an attack barrier.
The maze is a fancy graphical way of explaining security of the system. Like when we hack in real life, we find exploits in the system which is kinda like a backdoor. We have to “navigate” our way through it by sifting through the code. Would be awesome if we could see it for real. Many shows embellish this in a graphical way for the fun factor, but the idea is still the same.