Timeline for In a cyberpunk world where corporate upper class citizens can work virtually through implants, why would they build corporate mega-skyscrapers?
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| Mar 23, 2022 at 21:13 | history | edited | Vogon Poet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2022 at 14:00 | comment | added | J... | @VogonPoet Well, obviously they don't all work in this building, and clearly that wasn't what I was suggesting. BoA operates in 4600 locations across 40 countries. The point is that a 200-person company did not build this building. | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 13:38 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | @J... 200,000 people squeezed into 55 floors?!?! I have to see your source, sorry! That’s like stuffing clowns in a VW LOL! 😂 | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 12:44 | comment | added | J... | "...employs fewer than 200 people". The Bank of America employs around 200,000 people. Presumably you mean that fewer than 200 BoA employees work in this building. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 23:08 | comment | added | Bergi | @VogonPoet Expanding on that, there's of course the idea of wiping any memory of business details when you leave the office building, and restoring it on the next morning… Wasn't there a movie about this recently? | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 23:05 | comment | added | Bergi | @VogonPoet I didn't have a definite idea. Originally, I assumed the brain implants to be wireless, and the office shielding (like a faraday cage) would ensure that they're not connected to the network - at best, only to people in the same room as you. If the implants use plugs, disconnecting (or connecting to a secured network) is easier of course, but that doesn't change the premise: you still need the office building to all this. And yes, memory is a big issue. The hackers might still gain access once you leave the building - so maybe the argument works only for time-critical information? | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 19:41 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | @Bergi I have to assume your implant idea doesn’t have a memory buffer? Shielding won’t prevent an update when they leave the room if it does. My assumption would be that some memory must be designed in to avoid missing stuff in “dead spots.” | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 19:31 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | @Bergi Perhaps the confusion is between a shielded office and an unplugged executive. Or are you saying these are the same, and shielding is how they can unplug? | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 19:28 | comment | added | Bergi | @MichaelS Yes, and my point was that having these meetings while not being plugged in is exactly the reason for needing the office buildings. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 19:15 | comment | added | MichaelS | @Bergi: Brain chips don't necessarily have wireless access. And those that do, can have switches to shut that off. Sure, you could remote in while the guy's connected at the mall, install some spyware, then retrieve the dataz later. But people could also get in the habit of wiping data after important meetings before plugging back into the net, etc. It certainly makes for interesting discussions on what to add to a cyberpunk world, but computer chip doesn't instantly equate to readily hackable. | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 10:45 | comment | added | David Mulder | @Bergi If you however can protect a building from hackers then you can also protect a virtual space from hackers. The only way the 'some stuff absolutely needs to be done in an office' statement could work is if the office would be a zone completely devoid of technology (which would have to be very strictly enforced). | |
| Mar 21, 2022 at 9:54 | comment | added | Darth Biomech | consider also: servers. You need to host them somewhere, and you'd need A LOT of servers in a cyberpunk future. | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 20:08 | comment | added | Vogon Poet | @Bergi I wouldn't say "absolutely" unless the OP described their chips. It's "AR" tech, so you'd be guessing at what gets overlayed. Maybe text only? Maybe full-on telepathy? Assume anything you want I suppose, then make the question moot? | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 20:04 | history | edited | Vogon Poet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2022 at 20:04 | comment | added | Bergi | They got chips in their brains. You absolutely can hack them, and listen in on them talking across a desk. But maybe you can't get the data out in a livestream, because the offices are shielded specifically against live transmissions? | |
| Mar 20, 2022 at 17:44 | history | answered | Vogon Poet | CC BY-SA 4.0 |