Technology
These notes cover the technologies that changed how people thought, inhabited bodies, extracted resources, governed, and fought wars during the pre-Elysium age. In late Sol, using these systems also meant living under the institutions that financed and deployed them. Each gain in efficiency brought new rules about what people could do with their minds.
Investment decisions and struggles over regulation shaped how these technologies were used. Institutions used them to discipline workers, while keeping them running required continuing maintenance. Their use also expressed judgments about which kinds of life deserved resources to become more efficient, easier for institutions to classify and manage, or profitable. Read the technical accounts alongside the institutions deploying each system and the people required to adapt to it.
Cognition And Control
- Artificial General Intelligence
- Algorithmic Social Control
- Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Neuromorphic Firmware
- Substrate-Matched Cognition