I had a dream a few days back that I wanted to share with you, It is an interesting twist in the history of Tron and it is far from being complete, but tremendously exciting, I need your help to plot the rest of the history for it
Please bear with me since English is not my first language, I'll try to make it as clear as I could
First let's clarify some facts: I'm kinda a computer enthusiast, Tron changed me forever back in the eighties and that's great but I've always felt that Tron lacks some requirements to become "possible" and I need that sense of reality to justify this universe, that's why I give for granted some facts (Please inform me if any of these facts are official or very similar to other fact previously stated).
Facts:- In this world computer storage/processing is more or less unlimited or at least very vast, only that way computers (if we can call them that way) can sustain and store digitalized human beings
- Programs inside this "system" are not equal as programs located in our computers, they are quite different, it is a mix of AI and BioInformatics, programs are created with more complex goals in mind, let alone a chess program, we are talking about self evolving/self learning programs, BUT they have a catch: Humans have not yet perfected their programming skills or techniques and because of that programs are not exactly "sentient", that is, programs do know they exist and what their purpose is, however they lack the ability to go beyond their original programming and come with their own and unique way of "seeing things" (I haven't come with a name for this "programs", I need your help on that)
- "The Grid" is not exactly a computer, it is a more complex system composed of an "n" number of processors and neural networks, more similar to several (Hundreds? Thousands?) human brains networked together, that gives the ability for multiple programs running simultaneously, not one instruction at the time as what happens with our computers but millions, let's think of it as a total different model of computing created to make obsolete current computers, it was deliberately created to hold the AI programs mentioned before as current systems are way too simple.
- ISOs are the result of this system complexness and unforeseen results of infinite iterations of the previous three concepts, Let's say it is similar to having structural components of life free in the environment, mixing themselves until some special requirements are met and life "spontaneously appear", of course, they are intrinsically similar to programs created by humans because humans have left residual "parts of code" laying arround that made part of the ISOs basis (by "laying arround" we can thing of them as residual elements of code after a program had to be forcibly "killed" because it was misbehaving and things like that).
- Finally, the "laser" that digitizes and de-digitizes people and objects is also a machine capable of translating the computer code into matter and backwards, thats why it is required that programs in this system posses basis very similar to those found in human beings. The laser also doesn't break the rules of matter creation/destruction since it creates matter from energy justifying Flynn's saying that "the portal requires huge amounts of energy"
NOTE: This huge amounts of energy are produced with a generator developed by ENCOM with the sole purpose of providing the required energy to the laser, the think with this generator is that it doesn't produces energy from the ether, it has the ability to transform multiple forms of -substance- back and forth into energy/matter
This five simple facts give a more plausible reality to this world and let the following happen: [continued]