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[Crane]

[QUESTION] [SPEC] Next Gen Keys

[spaceXplorer]

Yeh, the 3G of Keys....

...i'd be perectly happy with one of the 2G or 1G ones, tbh.

[Leeravitz]

Well, exactly. As we don't quite know how the basic key works - maybe it's nothing too sinister, it just has more functions than the prior models. Then again, maybe it's getting closer to a neural jack than a mobile phone !!

[We know Adrian has been watching Doctor Who recently...for those of you who saw 'The Long Game']

[misteraitch]

the one from the image looks decidedly like this one....

[url]http://www.forum.nokia.com/device/pics/9300_main.jpg[/url][/url]

[DrPiranha]

I assume that keys would have to be purchased? The trouble being that they seem to be essential to life in the city and what happens if you can't afford a key? Similarly I assume that if you can't afford the next gen key then you miss out on all the new functions, or maybe the old ones become unuseable when the new technology is introduced?

[misteraitch]

Since everything so far is PRE-Game, I think that we'll never solve the mystery of the key - but all will become revealed upon release of the Official Game cards.

Most people have a mobile of some sort [whether 3G or not] so I'm assuming that any model would suffice. The 'Key' in picture is the Nokia 9300, a model which has already been replaced by a more up-to-date version, leading me to believe that the model isn't important, and at just short of £200 - I hope to goddess it isn't!

The important thing is authenticating the key with the authorisation code - three numerals and two letters - and I'm buggered if I can remember where I came across that little bit of info? But they appear throughout the error logs generated from the Gatehouse.

[Sorry if this is in the wrong thread BTW]

[Leeravitz]

Ah, that's an idea - that the social divide in Perplex City - the difference between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' is to what extent you're keyed into the informational matrices of the City...

[BrianEnigma]

[Violet]

The thing that gets me about these keys is that surely everyone has to have one if they hold ID data, etc? Doesn't that mean babies and children as well, because presumably they need to be identifiable, and it seems to replace all forms of ID including birth certificates. Maybe if you can't afford one they get the benefit people to give you one!

[<PSH>]

[Leeravitz]

I'd assume also (on the basis of nothing other than a hunch, but there you go) that Perplexians haven't always had keys - they have emerged gradually through technological refinement, and an increasing interfacing across media (if - that is- they are indeed Internet access, credit card transferal, Ident and communications tech in one...)

[POTUS]

I think you're right-on.

But the PMs also have enough flexibility (of undefined 'facts'/stories) to make stuff happen on-the-fly.

[Macavity]

Oh suseJ, The Long Game - those neural jacks were . . . disturbing.

Give me a Matrix/ShadowRun jack any day!

[spugmeistress]

[Leeravitz]

At the very least, we know Adrian has been watching the new Doctor Who, because he mentioned it in his blog, so yes. Whether he watched that one or not, and whether it had any bearing *at all* on his ideas is a much more open question. I don't think that the creative process is that simple, really, and I imagine that all the technology behind keys was worked out by the PMs several years ago. I just found it an amusing coincidence. [And I didn't think much to the episode, either, but that wasn't the point ]