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Doug Jones's avatar

At "two or three inches" I immediately thought Faraday Cage Whole-Body Condom, and got the giggles over The Naked Gun with crinkling aluminum foil. Curse you!

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

And now we know what high school dances look like in this future.

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Codex redux's avatar

If both the the HIV scare & the attempted Monkeypox panic were any indication we'll be safe from the nookie chips. If nothing else, all the sex-traffickers would put the kibosh on it.

No, it'd have to be something like the cosplay PPE that the little people will cling to, and the would-be aristos can swan about ignoring.

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

Those two diseases never threatened to break into the mainstream, so they were handled under "oppressed minority" rules rather than public safety. But yes, PPE for lethal STDs would probably involve some dramatic upgrades from the current ones.

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William H Stoddard's avatar

Aristillus? Cool! I always like a good allusion, and yours are regularly good.

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

I picked up an early copy of the YA novel. I believe he's planning a kickstarter for it soon.

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

Yep, he's doing a couple of YAs in the setting before returning to the main line:

https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1741843658989596932

He's written about the plotting he's doing for Aristillus 3 & 4, so I expect Hugh may be in there.

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

Travis published a novella a couple months ago. It's in the universe of Kroese's Mammon trilogy. (I also have a short in that.)

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

I wanted something they could spot easily, and that hit both easy to find and escaping government control.

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OldNFO's avatar

Snort... I'm not the only one thinking Faraday Cage...

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

I'm sure the EW community will find all their skills in use.

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William H Stoddard's avatar

From the technology as described, there's going to be a big increase in the popularity of oral sex.

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Karl Gallagher's avatar

Hence the parents mentioning "lip chips" as the next stage.

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OldNFO's avatar

Oh yeah!

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