Like Dartz said I have been playing with ideas taken from Eclipse Phase and GURPS Transhuman Space from the beginning of Catgirl Industries.
The catgirls might be not interested in cybernetics, but they are diving deeper and deeper into the secrets of the metahuman mind.
The tech what enabled them to start their journey, Quattros memory manipulation technology, was a powerful but "raw" tool, which was a great way to do a lot of damage to the victims... not that Quattro cared about this.
It took CI years to carefully streamline the device and to learn about patterns in the outcoming data. It took them more years to create the first real application, and even more years to make it stable and secure enough to be able to offer them as a service. But slowly Catgirl Industries will change from the inside out.
Even before 2020 there will be the first 'memory fingerprint' scanners, which allow persons to create some kind of signature of their memories and check themselves for manipulations. There will be also the first versions of a "skill sharing" system, which allows to transfer the facts (but not the complete understanding) of a skill from one brain to another one, enabling to learn things faster than before.
In the mid 2020s the knowledge about "mind pattern" will become good enough to make 'compact' backups of persons, but it will still take a few more years until these backups can also run on a computer. This will lead to "virtual pilots" for vehicles, catgirls temporarily leaving their bodies to control a vehicle from within a computer, similar to an AI. Egocasting will also become possible, even if the amounts of data make it difficult to transfer a complete person quickly. In theory forking would also be possible, but creating new organic bodies is still expensive and the catgirls don't like artificial ones.
My personal idea about Catgirl Industries is that they will move away from a money based society to a reputation based one. You are the author of a great 'skillsoft' or another widely popular media? It will be more worth that solar credits within CI. This also means that you will get a copy (including how to make it yourself) for most technologies the catgirls know, knowledge can be shared without loss.
From the outside Catgirl Industries will still look and "feel" like a normal Fen faction, but below the surface people will find all kinds of strange/unusual things going on.
Long term goal of Cortana and Serina will be the creation of a new catgirl biomod with a brain that can run a high level "class A" mind... so that they don't have to leave the catgirls behind when they try to break the S-class barrier together.
The catgirls might be not interested in cybernetics, but they are diving deeper and deeper into the secrets of the metahuman mind.
The tech what enabled them to start their journey, Quattros memory manipulation technology, was a powerful but "raw" tool, which was a great way to do a lot of damage to the victims... not that Quattro cared about this.
It took CI years to carefully streamline the device and to learn about patterns in the outcoming data. It took them more years to create the first real application, and even more years to make it stable and secure enough to be able to offer them as a service. But slowly Catgirl Industries will change from the inside out.
Even before 2020 there will be the first 'memory fingerprint' scanners, which allow persons to create some kind of signature of their memories and check themselves for manipulations. There will be also the first versions of a "skill sharing" system, which allows to transfer the facts (but not the complete understanding) of a skill from one brain to another one, enabling to learn things faster than before.
In the mid 2020s the knowledge about "mind pattern" will become good enough to make 'compact' backups of persons, but it will still take a few more years until these backups can also run on a computer. This will lead to "virtual pilots" for vehicles, catgirls temporarily leaving their bodies to control a vehicle from within a computer, similar to an AI. Egocasting will also become possible, even if the amounts of data make it difficult to transfer a complete person quickly. In theory forking would also be possible, but creating new organic bodies is still expensive and the catgirls don't like artificial ones.
My personal idea about Catgirl Industries is that they will move away from a money based society to a reputation based one. You are the author of a great 'skillsoft' or another widely popular media? It will be more worth that solar credits within CI. This also means that you will get a copy (including how to make it yourself) for most technologies the catgirls know, knowledge can be shared without loss.
From the outside Catgirl Industries will still look and "feel" like a normal Fen faction, but below the surface people will find all kinds of strange/unusual things going on.
Long term goal of Cortana and Serina will be the creation of a new catgirl biomod with a brain that can run a high level "class A" mind... so that they don't have to leave the catgirls behind when they try to break the S-class barrier together.