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From:	"Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject:	Wage Slaves and the Matrix
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 1993 09:33:34 -0700

Message no. 1 Actually I was under the impression that the average wage slave used
a neuralcap to do Matrix work. It allows them to do pretty much what a
decker can do, but it is slower than a datajack and completely useless
for decking work. However it is much cheaper than spending money on giving
all the wage slaves datajacks. I think the Corporate Wage Slave Archetype
supports this in that it has no datajack.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker

From:	Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Wage Slaves and the Matrix
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 1993 13:07:33 EDT

Message no. 2 >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Carter, Nightstalker
<CARTER@***.EDU> writes:

Jason> I think the Corporate Wage Slave Archetype supports this in that it
Jason> has no datajack.

The Wage Slave ISN'T A COMPUTER EXPERT! He or she does something else, and
any computers on their desks are just tools to get that something else
done. A corp's deckers and top-level researchers get datajacks; so would
people like the senior exec, VPs, etc.

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From:	"Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Wage Slaves and the Matrix
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 1993 12:30:30 -0500

Message no. 3 On Fri, 9 Jul 1993, Richard Pieri wrote:

> The Wage Slave ISN'T A COMPUTER EXPERT! He or she does something else, and
> any computers on their desks are just tools to get that something else
> done. A corp's deckers and top-level researchers get datajacks; so would
> people like the senior exec, VPs, etc.

What was Sam Verner (did I get the name right?) Was he a
programmer/doftware developer or was he just a wage slave doing something
as maundane as secretarial work? I ask because he had a copr-installed
datajack.

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From:	Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Wage Slaves and the Matrix
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 1993 14:04:46 EDT

Message no. 4 >>>>> "Robert" == Robert A Hayden
<hayden@*******.mankato.msus.edu> writes:

Robert> On Fri, 9 Jul 1993, Richard Pieri wrote:
> The Wage Slave ISN'T A COMPUTER EXPERT! He or she does something else, and
> any computers on their desks are just tools to get that something else
> done. A corp's deckers and top-level researchers get datajacks; so would
> people like the senior exec, VPs, etc.

Robert> What was Sam Verner (did I get the name right?)

Verner (you got it right) was one specific *kind* of wage slave. Maybe I
should have worded that as, "the Wage Slave isn't necessarily a computer
expert." Anyhow, he *did* use a keyboard until Renraku installed a datajack
to "improve his efficiency." He was still a wage slave until he left.

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From:	"Mercury (Uditha DeSilva uidesilva@*****.meto.govt.uk)"
Subject:	Re: Wage Slaves and the Matrix
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 1993 18:08:23 +0000

Message no. 5 > = "Robert A. Hayden"
>What was Sam Verner (did I get the name right?) Was he a
>programmer/doftware developer or was he just a wage slave doing
>something as maundane as secretarial work? I ask because he had a
>corp-installed datajack.

Yeah, from ``Into the Shadows'' and the first Shadowrun trilogy
(Secrets of Power). Sam was a hot-shot computer researcher.
At one point fairly early in the novel ``Never deal with a
Dragon'', the head of an AI project wants him because he's GOOD.
It seems to me that, in Renraku, the datajack was a status symbol,
and a measure of his standing in the corp. -- a granted privilege
rather than a standard item -- the story opens with him waking
up from the operation to install it.

-- /\/\ercury
PS: Any of you heard the Billy Idol ``Cyberpunk'' album yet?
(Snicker... hoping to raise some of the flames raging in
alt.cyberpunk...)

From:	Todd Montgomery <tmont@****.WVU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Wage Slaves and the Matrix
Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 1993 13:36:55 -0400

Message no. 6 > From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>

> What was Sam Verner (did I get the name right?) Was he a
> programmer/doftware developer or was he just a wage slave doing something
> as maundane as secretarial work? I ask because he had a copr-installed
> datajack.
>

I believe Sam was just a Wage Slave who worked a little higher up in
the corp. I don't think he was a developer or anything as technical as
that. But he did seem to have some good contact with some very high up
execs. But most of that, If I remember correctly, was passed off as
his parents being high up on the corp. ladder. Sam was working his way
up, though. If I remember his work was sort of Grad. Studentish. Or
that was my impression.

-- Quiktek
a.k.a. Todd Montgomery
tmont@****.wvu.edu
tmont@***.wvu.edu
un032507@*******.wvnet.edu

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