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Septeus7
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Technology is slowly but creating the world found in the sci-fi anime into actual reality. In the past, many people have laughed at me saying the most technology found in Ghost in the Shell would be seen in our life time. To all you doubters....read IT and weep... suckers read it and weep!
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The Ramblin' Wreck
 Posts: 924 Location: Teaching Robot Women How To Love |
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um................
okay........ |
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Shinotaku14
Encyclopedia Editor
 Posts: 233 Location: Greenville or Rock Hill, SC |
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that does indeed sound like Ghost in the Shell. Especialy the fact that teh connectors are on the back of the dude's neck.
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Ken Hayashi
 Posts: 752 Location: Singapore |
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It is now the year 2004. They have 28 years to refine the system to the point where it melds seemlessly into the human system. I'd say the possibility of the world of GITS being realized within our lifetime is very high. Unless some government decides that it's going too far ethically and stops all research in this field. That'll really be a setback and is a foolish decision.
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Haiseikoh 1973
 Posts: 1590 Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas. |
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I'm still waiting for BOOMERS, Sex Andriods, Laser Guns, and Huge Mecha Military Machines.
We're already way behind Police and Construction Labors by 4 years. |
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Ken Hayashi
Posts: 752 Location: Singapore |
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I'm just waiting for Batou to grow too old to drive his Lancia Stratos, then I'll buy it off him. Don't care too much about boomers (voomers?) or sex androids. Would love to have a robotic maid that cleaned the house though. But technology as it is now, I can't see that happening in the next 10 years. Well, at least not one that looks like some nubile pretty young thing. |
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Iron Chef
 Posts: 487 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Well they already have a primitive version of the stealth suits employed by GiTS, so why not everything else? I swear I'll post a link to the suit when I remember which online mag I saw it in (Wired, maybe?). Heck, it might have been here...
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Perfectsword
 Posts: 527 Location: Somewhere in NY |
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I know what suit you may be talking about. it gives human super strenght and stelthy-ness. its not in use yet, they're still working on it. But if, within the next 28 years, the create the huge robots....i'd steel one and nobod could do anything about it....i love gits |
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Iron Chef
Posts: 487 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Actually, this isn't the one I'm thinking of. Basically, it projected an image of the surrounding landscape on the wearer of the suit and made them "invisible." That is, if you were legally blind and couldn't see the part of the landscape that looked like projected TV as opposed to real life. Dammit, I need to find the link to that article. |
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Kazuki-san
 Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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Well it's called Optical Camouflage (Thermoptic Camouflage in GitS), and it's not so much a suit, as a material, since it can be applied to various objects (the material is called a retroreflector). In any case here is a link to the project page, complete with short movies that demonstrate. http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp:/projects/MEDIA/xv/oc.html Unfortunately the link is not being picked up completely because of the colon, so you will have to copy and paste into your broswer. |
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Iron Chef
Posts: 487 Location: Seattle, WA |
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RRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHH!!! I just re-found the link, too! :: sigh :: Thanks, Kazuki-san. |
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Ken Hayashi
Posts: 752 Location: Singapore |
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Ironchef, I think we may already have read about it here some months ago. That was quite primitive. The projected images look fake, and you could still see the outline of the person in the reflective suit standing against the real background. Still, 28 years is a long time to perfect something like this. So I'd say it really is a possibility. I can only wonder what the criminal elements would think up if they they got their hands on something like this.
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Kazuki-san
Posts: 2251 Location: Houston, TX |
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 Sorry to make you go through the effort, that link has been in my bookmarks for several months.
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Haiseikoh 1973
Posts: 1590 Location: Waiting for the Japanese 1000 Gunieas. |
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Theirs always Hypnosis with real women. 
Still, I wouldn't mind a Tachikoma next to my Hachi-Roku. |
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Guilhem
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Old hat: researches and developments in this field began in the second half of the 80s and ten years later -in 1998- this device already allowed its user to play Pong as well as to type some e-mails... Now, 6 years later, there's still no significant advances
Sorry if I disappoint some of you but except if some major technology breakout happens, it's very unlikely that a GitS-like connection system will be useable around 2030... Don't get me wrong: I'd be more than happy to see such thing happen -at least for the medical potential- but there's a significant difference between 'being possible' and 'will happen soon'. Technological developments are just not proportional: the more complex is the device, the more problems you'll get while developping it and therefore the more time such developments will require... |
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