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Old 2009-06-27, 16:48   Link #17
dnab
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Indeed, the TPDD can be suggested to be in/around/proximity of Mikuru's face, and not "on" her face like an acne per se.

Reason to even suggest that is that, of course, the only point of physical contact between M(B) and M(S) is the face, but also later when Mikuru woke up the first place she checked for the lost TPDD is also her face.

What we do know about the future (which we know even less than the Data Entity and the Organization) is that they probably don't rely on external devices to implement technologies. Things are likely integrated into bodies (which we don't even know if bodies will be naturally produced or not) so that a) they can time travel anytime/anywhere, b) communicate sans handsets, c) travel without needing, say, boats, d) internet without needing, say, computers.

Nanotech is a possibility, because it's what Yuki uses to suppress Mikuru-beams and provide time-shields and what-not. But I have a (totally unfounded) theory as well. A physical manifestation of a future person could in fact be a walking-programmable-hardware capable of all device activities. Thus instead of nanobots floating the bloodstream, different regions of the body are programmable into specific machines. A Human iPhone. M(B) can thus remove TPDD from M(S) by erasing the local programming for it.

Mikuru isn't allowed to carry a weapon because, not per Kyon's usually misleading interpretation of possibly misplacing it, she might accidentally use it to kill someone a la Mikuru-beam. Guess what that'll do to her career future?

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