BT008: Sleepertyping, Asymmetrics, Technoclairvoyance Part I
2066 marked the first initial intelligent analysis into Technoclairvoyance as a concept and trait, and the idea of Asymmetrics, but it began with fashion.
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TC’s and Asymmetrics, and sleepertyping
Within the field of actually using WetWare, be it an Augmentation or a Replacement, there was always a considerable inner-circle of individuals who were specifically concerned with what was initially called sleepertyping. Sleepertyping was one of the original foundational ‘fashion’ senses for what composed the massive industry that was the cosmetic end of self-modification.
Because for every trend, there is an offset, and especially among the newly-enclosed westerners and easterners, sleepertyping was something that largely transcended cultural norms. Various offshoots of this idea emerged, often-times specifically concerned with an older periodic fashion-sense. ‘Sleepertyped OuroVintage’ was a name given to the general 1980’s/90’s ~ 20XX’s 80’s/90’s revival period combination with sleeper-typing; a very modified individual that looks like they just stepped out of 2027.
Within sleepertyping, there were a variety of different interpretations as well - some were hardliners that believed true sleepertyping means that you preserve your original organic skin, meaning that one could not undergo certain types of WetWare Augmentation modifications for their limbs and extremities, and outright could not have their organic limbs and/or extremities replaced with Replacement-type WetWare.
Moderates existed as well, they believed that sleepertyping was born on the basis of making all modifications ‘sleep,’ and thus SynthSkin panels were more than acceptable in the process of masking physical WetWare Augmentations or Replacements.
Specificially speaking within the hardliner movement of sleepertyping, the idea was that modifications made to the head, specifically were okay, given that the face was never disfigured in any way, or any process - entire SynthSkin faces were not considered a part of this hardliner movement. Therefore, it was common for these individuals to have a large amount of time, money, labor, and risk poured into having most of, if not all of their modifications made to the head area by way of using the Neural Stack, modifications to its’ capacity, customizable homebrew ChipWare for it. Optical modifications were the usual, first, and most common modification - sleepertyping was considered classy in the sense that it was often easy to run amok with cosmetic modifications made to eyeballs and pupils, but people, concerned with their image have found many different ways to maintain a refined taste in cosmetic modifications made to the eyeball, and pupil - be it through augmentation or replacing. Famous people within this fashion movement oftentimes had a majority of their brain cyberized, and therefore they carry an controversial reputation for the sorts of things that these types have been up to.
Eventually, by 2068, there was thought and analysis given to the idea of a concept entitled ‘Technoclairvoyance,’ observed by academic analysts, some of whom were involved in this very movement. Much consideration was given to the idea that there had been very formidable introspective and honest pathways made towards the idea of merging the active, real-time thought-processing capabilities of an individual, with that of predictive/speculative trend-analysis, and pattern-recognition AI. Other groups of individuals involved in this field studied the overall effects of modifications made to the brain that allowed people to interact with physical infrastructure around them, completely without any sort of physical interaction.
Big-picture conclusions were made towards the idea that individuals who could harness and manage both the process of being able to interact with physical infrastructure around themselves non-physically, as well as proper integration of AI-assisted trend-analysis and pattern-recognition, that this would set the stage for ‘Technoclairvoyance’ in many different ways - individuals that were at or approaching this level were often-times referred to as ‘TC’s,’ and it became an intensely controversial crowd of people, nigh-immediately - as is par for the course within a SprawlState.
The exclusive few that were early adopters of the concept of having an AI-assisted (Neural Networked) series of workflows that ran parallel to their own thoughts was initially rooted in things such as crime-scene reconstruction, gait analysis, facial recognition for the purpose of reconstruction of conversations without sound. Thus, the first reaches into this, were geared around warfare and policing.
Others had different ideas. Within business, this was specifically applied in the process of stock market analysis - and to some degree, later on, specific corporations adopted it for a model of trading, in such a way where they could successfully tie one trading decision to one person verifiably, since they were then able to process so many, as such a quick rate.
Other uses were found for things such as this, and the stage was set for people to begin to become worried about the concept of things such as the adverse effect of this, on the mind. Cyberschizophrenia as a symptom of TechShock as discovered, through this.
