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tl;dw: the concept has been toyed with in a number of episodes: Imagine the death penalty was replaced by a simple "ban" from everybody else's perception. Inst
by pluma 9y ago
tl;dw: the concept has been toyed with in a number of episodes:
Imagine the death penalty was replaced by a simple "ban" from everybody else's perception. Instead of being put to death, you just appear as an outline filled with static and your voice appears as garbled noise.
Alternatively, imagine "parental controls" for a child's perception that automatically filters out "unsafe" content like sex, violence, hobos, hookers and hate speech.
Or imagine altering a soldier's perception to make enemy combatants appear less human so empathy doesn't get in the way of a clean kill.
- yupyup 9y agoSPOILER warning!
- pluma 9y agoNot really. I'm not giving away which of these happens in which episode and a lot of the technology is recurring throughout the different stories. In most episodes the general idea of how the tech works is given away fairly early on and the real plot points are more about how it affects the characters. In fact the parental controls idea is literally this: http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc161.gif http://j.aufbix.org/plif/archive/wc161.gif and I'm pretty sure the soldier one was taken from an episode of Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.