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Gear and Tech

The technology of the SBC was made with one thing in mind and I still love it. We took shit that exists and we changed it to create something more. It was all distinctly...cyberpunk. We didn't have biotech, that was a main goal of ours. Sickdog believed that by breaking the limits of technology we could elevate humanity to a new paradigm entirely, our goal was to give mankind connection without separation.

You use your phone every single day, you talk to friends and family on it, you buy stuff on it, you listen to music, watch videos, order groceries. What if I told you it was a wall between you and the world around you? It's a wall that's so essential that it's become a part of you but it allows anyone else to put whatever they want on it. It's a advertising billboard, a method of indirect attack. This thing is a necessary evil though, you can't simply just not use one because it's so essential for society now that you'd be disadvantaged.

Mobile devices aren't the devil, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying it's an incomplete technology and has many flaws that need to be ironed out. Our problem was that in the process of connecting everyone, we put ourselves into a glass box that misrepresents humanity and gives the wrong people the ability to show us what they want us to see. Our technology strove to be different.

The first thing we did was separate communication and entertainment. We all still use phones, but we also created a homebrew platform using Google Glass hardware. We transformed it into a functional HUD with the ability to send and receive calls, it was the first iteration of our HUD and the result of years of work for me. This evolved over time to ironically being housed in AR sets we got from Amazon and they look like large sunglasses now but kept our creed intact.

Our second priority was privacy, everything today wants to know what you're doing at all times. Theres a fat cold war going on over whos getting your data and while we can't simply stop using everything, we can fight against our data being taken and sold to who knows. The project Sickdog was working on was called SickOS, an open source operating system that operates within all of our technology. This OS allowed us total privacy and a way to build a ecosystem for our technology. Groups across the SBC now either use SickOS or something built by their own people.

I wanted to post this more or less for posterity. I don't really think anyone will ever be into reading a bunch of dumb ranting from someone objectively bonkers but it makes me feel better and that's what matters.

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