Monday 6 April 2009

RD Sennou Chousashitsu

Real Drive (RD 潜脳調査室 ,RD Sennō Chōsashitsu?) is set in 2061 AD, fifty years after the development of the Network society. The new infrastructure was to create a utopia where people could directly connect at the level of consciousness. But new social problems, such as personal data leaks and disinformation surface. People still must rely heavily on the Network and are unable to abandon it.
In due course, a new Network realm with more effective security measures was developed. This was called Meta Real Network, nicknamed "The Metal."
The Metal holds personal memory data in bubble shells. These are supposedly protected virtual online organic cyber-enclaves. The Metal eventually pervades the everyday lives of people.
People gradually learned to release and explore their instincts within the environment of the Metal. The unleashed instincts cause some individual's consciousness to drown in the sea of information and to be exposed to the pressures of desire.
Meanwhile, norms and regulations continue to bind their real world lives. Friction between the two worlds manifests as troublesome aberrations.
Cyber Divers are experts who investigate and decipher these aberrations in the Metal.

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