Dartz wrote:
The first 'application' of manatech is a reference manatronic computer that, in theory, anyone can build?
What would you expect that computer to do?  "Detect Magic"?  "Analyse Magic"?  Be a computer version of a grimoire/spell book/personal magical journal?  Run an AI (sub-sentient level) to help people do magic?
Well there's the solution to the 'problem' of who can do it right there. Some people are born with it, some need a hardware assist to do it. Either cybernetic, or not.
That makes sense to me.  All the (B5) technomages, with their cyber implants that let them fake-up magic using tech, in Fenspace, are they using tech, magic, or some strange hybrid of the two?


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