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0133 - Good at three things. - 2020.04.20 |
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Comment: I like to think that Green Lantern's power ring represents the apex of technology. As any piece of technology is refined, its abilities become more varied, more sophisticated and more powerful, while it becomes easier and more intuitive to use. The logical endpoint, then, is a device that is nigh-omnipotent, that responds perfectly to your thoughts, and that protects and accomodates you so well that you don't even have to think about things like radiation, vacuum, or alien viruses. The technology in Forward, of course, is not nearly that advanced. I would say that if a pointy stick is a 1, a Green Lantern ring is 100, and your smartphone is a 50, then the various implants and AIs of Forward are in the neighbourhood of a 60. Of course, the thing about power rings is that they are given - they give themselves - to individuals who merit their use. There is no failsafe circuitry in iPhones or general purpose automatons that prevent them from being used by or sold to idiots. |
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