Re: [TML] Every day it seems we're closer to Cyberpunk 2020... Bruce Johnson 30 Jun 2016 00:05 UTC
Hmmm….maybe Gramps was an evil AI only pretending to be a Droyne… > On Jun 29, 2016, at 4:25 PM, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've always figured that the Traveller backstory *had* to include some kind of aggressive-AI crisis which triggered a Butlerian jihad analog, leaving all of known space culturally (and probably legally) disinclined to allow any but the stupidest computers to exist. Like so many other things, allowing this genie out of the bottle would irreparably damage the flavor of Traveller. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs