| From: | Jaimie Nicholson <jaimie.nicholson@********.OTAGO.AC.NZ> |
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| Subject: | Re: SR prisons (was Re: It's not Cheese :() |
| Date: | Sun, 8 Mar 1998 11:13:07 +0100 |
>Take it a step farther: behavioral modification cyberware. Install implants
>in criminals that, for instance, suppress violent impulses. The extreme
>version would turn a criminal into a "productive member of society", and
>would also avoid the problem of it being removed illegally--the affected
>person wouldn't *want* to have it removed.
>
>I'd say the earlier versions of these things are under development and
>testing in the SR world. Whether (and how well) they'd actually work is an
>interesting question, and there's probably a plot or two in that. (Hmm...)
[snip]
>I think they're more likely to go the mind-controlling route; transporting
>and feeding the prisoners in a space prison would be a pain. Another
>possibility is the "virtual prison": hook the prisoners up to simsense feeds
>and keep their meat bodies paralyzed. the simsense envrioment could be
>designed to either "rehabilitate" them or offer them a "harmless
outlet" for
>their "antisocial tendancies", depending.
There's some stuff in the LoneStar sourcebook about this... rumours of
virtual prisons with time compression sort of thing so the prisoner can
serve his or her sentence then be out on the street that afternoon. And
there was some other stuff about psychological techniques that prevent a
convict from even thinking about violence, even in self defence...
Clockwork Orange sort of thing.
PLAYTHING OF A CRUEL GOD
JAIMIE NICHOLSON
