From:	raymacey@*****.com (Ray Macey)
Subject:	Shadowrun and Suspension of Disbelief
Date:	Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:37:43 +1000

On 10/6/05, MC23 <mc23@**********.com> wrote:
> This edition of Shadowrun seems to have an Utopian ideal with it's
> everyone wireless and everything is accessible to the matrix. This is
> Cyberpunk people! Bad things happen and players are involved with it.
> That really doesn't seem to be accounted for here and really is just
> ignored. It seems I have to put a lot of work into anything I'd do with
> SR4 if I ever played it.

How do you mean Utopian? To your average Joe, wireless presents him
with many a convenience, but that convenience comes at the cost of
privacy. He can be tracked, sorted, data mined and collated every
moment of his life. Wireless serves the corps, and only the corps.
There's no utopia about it. It's pervasive and invasive, something
that Shadowrunners have to go out of their way to use to their
advantage without getting caught by the liabilities of the technology.

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