Lingering Worries

[standalonehuman]

Hitori Togusa 10/2 near Recolle Police Station

I've got a question, and I don't mean for it to scare people, because what I'm really looking for is proof that I'm wrong. If these other people, the ones Retrospec is giving us the memories of? Retrospec is also slowly giving us their bodies. A piece at a time, it seems. What if they were sick? Is it slowly going to happen to us, too? How can we help each other out if it does start happening? So that I'm not wasting everybody's time with this, though. I've been asking about Dr. James Halliday, a memory researcher a bunch of us came across the name of in August. Despite the fact that Retrospec seems to have been interested in his work, I don't think they're using it. It specialized in deep-brain stimulation, but I personally had a check done to see if there were any changes to my brain from being on the app for eight months now, and there's nothing. Just so we can rule that one out.

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Re: [voice]

[blessmefather]

"I did joke around that I might be getting a pair of robot eyes in the mail. Scary red glowing ones of course," Matt says with a snort. "You'd think cybernetic eyes would include everything a regular camera can pick up which looks very much like normal human sight. I'm not sure why that basic form of vision would be left out of that tech. Maybe it's not mechanical after all."

Re: [voice]

[standalonehuman]

"In all seriousness, if you get any indication that those are a thing in the world Retrospec is trying to show you? Apparently I'm the guy to bounce it off of. I haven't talked to too many other people with that possibility." A pause. "Yin- ah, Jinying, on the network, but Yin, she's one."

"Maybe it isn't mechanical. Maybe any machine has to still work off of whatever organic component is left." Togusa ponders. "As you said, if the wire is cut, how much vision would be able to be restored in your case?"

Re: [voice]

[blessmefather]

"True. Technology isn't necessarily a perfect fix. I don't actually know why the Other Guy is blind yet. It could have been from a different type of injury or he might have been born that way. Without that knowledge I can't be absolutely sure about his options. I'll have to wait and find out more about the technology that was available in that world. So far it seems pretty close to our own world."