Update from Hub City
May. 1st, 2009 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oracle_knowsThe coffee shop next to Hub Library cost me about a thousand dollars and the sellers looked as if they thought I was crazy. They may have a point. But with Helena, Zinda, and Kate working flat out we've managed to establish a three block radius in which there are never any muggings. Which is as safe as anywhere is in Hub City - even the Police Station got burgled last week. (For once I can't blame the cops here - they were all too embarrassed to be the guilty parties). So it's doing a brisk business in people who want somewhere to relax where they won't get mugged or pickpocketed.
And people are coming in to join Hubnet - my hacking of mobile phones to make a peer to peer network covering Hub City that you can use for free. Officially takes about twenty minutes, which is long enough for them to sit down and order a cup of coffee. Not that that's a coincidence. I was also pleased to see the leaders of two of the bigger gangs use it as neutral ground (yes, both tried the double cross).
But this was all forseeable. It's the next step of this project that'll make or break my plans for Hub City. The introduction of what is currently high tech research - mods. Computer chips that link directly to the nervous system and can be programmed. Should kill the drug trade stone cold dead - you only need to pay for and program the mod once.
In worse news, reports of my death don't seem to be exaggerated enough. There's a lot of high level speculation I survived.
And people are coming in to join Hubnet - my hacking of mobile phones to make a peer to peer network covering Hub City that you can use for free. Officially takes about twenty minutes, which is long enough for them to sit down and order a cup of coffee. Not that that's a coincidence. I was also pleased to see the leaders of two of the bigger gangs use it as neutral ground (yes, both tried the double cross).
But this was all forseeable. It's the next step of this project that'll make or break my plans for Hub City. The introduction of what is currently high tech research - mods. Computer chips that link directly to the nervous system and can be programmed. Should kill the drug trade stone cold dead - you only need to pay for and program the mod once.
In worse news, reports of my death don't seem to be exaggerated enough. There's a lot of high level speculation I survived.
