04-30-2021, 20:53:01 PM
Thanks.
So, this story would be based around the idea of how emerging technologies (genetic engineering, cybernetics et cetera) might be used for good or for evil in the future, and what sort of safeguards might be put into place to minimize the dangers of these technologies.
The conflict of the story would be between members of a transhumanist "grinder" subculture, who use radical body-modification techniques to augment their abilities, and a newly found government agency, who investigate threats to the Americas posed by nascent technology (super-viruses, super-soldiers, bioterrorism, and more). The U.S. government fears that emerging technologies will destroy the social order or even civilization itself, and want to regulate them; the grinders fear that transhumanist technologies will be concentrated in the hands of the wealthy and powerful, and want to make access to them equal for everyone. In the middle is a grinder who has cut a deal with the agency, working with them as a deniable agent against super-terrorists, unethical research corporations, rogue governmental super-soldier programs, and enemy countries eager to weaponize superhumans themselves.
Basically, it's a science-fiction post-cyberpunk superhero spy thriller. How does it sound?
So, this story would be based around the idea of how emerging technologies (genetic engineering, cybernetics et cetera) might be used for good or for evil in the future, and what sort of safeguards might be put into place to minimize the dangers of these technologies.
The conflict of the story would be between members of a transhumanist "grinder" subculture, who use radical body-modification techniques to augment their abilities, and a newly found government agency, who investigate threats to the Americas posed by nascent technology (super-viruses, super-soldiers, bioterrorism, and more). The U.S. government fears that emerging technologies will destroy the social order or even civilization itself, and want to regulate them; the grinders fear that transhumanist technologies will be concentrated in the hands of the wealthy and powerful, and want to make access to them equal for everyone. In the middle is a grinder who has cut a deal with the agency, working with them as a deniable agent against super-terrorists, unethical research corporations, rogue governmental super-soldier programs, and enemy countries eager to weaponize superhumans themselves.
Basically, it's a science-fiction post-cyberpunk superhero spy thriller. How does it sound?
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?