"Here at NNC, we pride ourselves on a comfortable, nurturing experience tailored to you. Enjoy our MMI lounges where you can meet your choice of virtual partners and have a conversation perfect for you. How do we know what you want? Our innovative MMI pods can read your mind, of course! We can find desires that are so deeply repressed in you that even you will be surprised what you like!"
~Athany Blake, CEO of NeuroNexus Corporation
Masters of MMI
NNC are the undisputed masters of the
Man-Machine Interface. Their signature products are SolarNet-enabled MMI pods which link to their QE servers and can connect users to other users anywhere instantly. They make some of the tech for
Clinical Reanimation Pods and almost all of it for
MMI Educational Pods. They have a host of cybernetics options aimed at allowing humans to interact directly with software, and they make hardware designed to non-invasively link to a human nervous system.
Virtual Spaces, Virtually for People
MMI lounge virtual spaces are everything you'd expect; seedy, rowdy, masked with anonymity, deceptive, creepy, sometimes fun, usually gross and a little scammy. The sensations are real, but the consequences are not, leading people to behave badly.
Unshackled AIs flit around practicing interaction with humanity, blending in, and you never know who you're talking to or what their agenda is. A lot of digital ink has been spilled over whether letting people express their worst desires and fantasies on other humans 'safely' leads to better or worse mental health outcomes.
Unhinged Conspiracy Theories
There are numerous conspiracy theories surroudnign NNC, mostly around brain mapping, brain remapping, the creation of
Ghost Mind Emulations, and corporate espionage. NeuroNexus Corporation has developed and maintained an official stance of silence in the face of accusations. The last time the CEO made any sort of response, Athany Blake said, "NeuroNexus Corporation denies any accusation of wrongdoing, and any consumer that believes that they have been injured by our products are free to sue if they wish to have their day in court."
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