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audio; march 7th
[The recorded voice that addresses the crew through the MID is affable and slightly apologetic.]
Hello everyone. This is Alan Bradley speaking. I have a couple of questions for the crew, and I think I might as well use this opportunity to introduce myself to those I haven’t met yet: As I said, my name is Alan Bradley, and I’ve been assigned as one of the ship’s MID Technicians. I’m afraid I don’t have any particularly interesting abilities outside of computer programming, but that should be enough for me to do my job here. Some of you may have already met Sam Flynn, my godson from back home, as well as Tron and Rinzler, two, ah, programs that I’ve written. [Is that how he’s supposed to introduce them? It’s quite clear from the misgiving in his tone that he isn’t completely sure. He isn’t even certain he can correctly refer to them as two programs if you want to get technical, but explaining that would be far too involved for a simple introduction, so he’ll have to settle for the potential inaccuracy.] If you ever need to contact me, I’m always available at my personal inbox. [A slight chuckle.] I guess we all are since these things are strapped to our wrists.
Introductions aside, I was hoping someone could tell me who I should see about getting a new pair of glasses? Mine seem to have been lost as I was coming through the portal here. And seeing as my job on the ship will probably require spending most of my day staring at lines of code, I’d like to get a replacement sooner rather than later.
Speaking of my job here, I’m also looking for suggestions for programs people would like added to their MIDs, or improvements made to the interface. I’ll admit, the technology here is quite a bit more advanced than what I usually worked with back home, so anyone with more technological know-how is welcome to offer guidance: other programmers, engineers, AI… I’d be grateful for any advice.
Just leave a reply if you want to get in touch. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Hello everyone. This is Alan Bradley speaking. I have a couple of questions for the crew, and I think I might as well use this opportunity to introduce myself to those I haven’t met yet: As I said, my name is Alan Bradley, and I’ve been assigned as one of the ship’s MID Technicians. I’m afraid I don’t have any particularly interesting abilities outside of computer programming, but that should be enough for me to do my job here. Some of you may have already met Sam Flynn, my godson from back home, as well as Tron and Rinzler, two, ah, programs that I’ve written. [Is that how he’s supposed to introduce them? It’s quite clear from the misgiving in his tone that he isn’t completely sure. He isn’t even certain he can correctly refer to them as two programs if you want to get technical, but explaining that would be far too involved for a simple introduction, so he’ll have to settle for the potential inaccuracy.] If you ever need to contact me, I’m always available at my personal inbox. [A slight chuckle.] I guess we all are since these things are strapped to our wrists.
Introductions aside, I was hoping someone could tell me who I should see about getting a new pair of glasses? Mine seem to have been lost as I was coming through the portal here. And seeing as my job on the ship will probably require spending most of my day staring at lines of code, I’d like to get a replacement sooner rather than later.
Speaking of my job here, I’m also looking for suggestions for programs people would like added to their MIDs, or improvements made to the interface. I’ll admit, the technology here is quite a bit more advanced than what I usually worked with back home, so anyone with more technological know-how is welcome to offer guidance: other programmers, engineers, AI… I’d be grateful for any advice.
Just leave a reply if you want to get in touch. I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
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It must be. Both of them recognize me as “Alan-One” -- my username on the server I wrote them on. [Judging by the smile on his face saying it, Alan doesn’t mind the programs’ preferred soubriquet for him.]
I guess it’s a little misleading to say the recognized me on sight; really they seemed to know me the second they heard my voice. [His tone grows pensive.] Which means they must have had some means of hearing it in the system. [Curious, not least because the early ENCOM computers which he had written them on had had no means of audio input.]
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[As he's demonstrating now with the omni-gel. More of it splits off of the blob and rearranges itself, turning transparent before flattening out into a lens.]
Your voice? [On a server? Nihlus doesn't think to assume that the systems Alan had been working with were actually old enough not to have audio input. Even then...]
I'm assuming you didn't put recordings of your voice onto those servers.
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Back when I wrote them, there weren’t even microphones installed on the computers. [A slight shake of the head, half amused, half-perplexed.] I really have no way of explaining it. Not scientifically, anyway.
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[Honestly though, Alan, he's got a 3D printer on his wrist called an omni-tool and you're wigged out by Element Zero?]
You must have been like the voice of Spirits to them. Or, uh. Godess? Gods? God?
[One of those anyways. It certainly sounds oddly mystical, although the association of decidedly non-mystical technology with it was strange to say the least.]
How does this all work then? I... can't imagine programs living particularly peacefully considering how often I purge data off of some equipment.
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[Come on, Nihlus, you have to admit “Element Zero” sounds a lot more novel than “portable 3D printer.”]
I can’t imagine myself making a very convincing god. I didn’t even make that convincing of a CEO. [The good thing about not being a CEO anymore, not to mention no longer even being on the same planet as ENCOM, is that he can admit that without fallout.]
I don’t know. [And he’s been thinking about those kinds of questions a lot lately.] Tron hasn’t complained any about life on the ENCOM servers. [After that though… Alan sighs.] I worry about it. If everything I program is actually sentient somewhere inside the system, I can’t help wonder if I should be programming anything at all. [It’s an insecurity he’s kept mostly to himself, especially with his assignment as an MID technician on the ship.] I’ll have to ask Tron about it. [A faint smile.] I’m sure there’s a humane way to go about it.
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[Mentions of Element Zero is about common enough in his world's media that it's used as in adverts for sports drinks, okay. To Nihlus, it was kind of like hearing about electrolytes.]
It could just be something that happens in your universe? I... would've thought someone would mention it here considering the local mechanical and digital sorts that we have around.
[He plucks the new lens off of the rendering platform by a small tab sticking out of its side and examines it for flaws before holding it out for Alan to test out.]
That said I would be very interested in what Tron would have to say on the subject. I know I want to know if there's some sentient life running around on my systems without my knowing so.