So I'm running a game where I've got my players on the otherside of the shadows. They're playing Ex-military turned CorpSec.

I've created an up-and-coming AA corporation for them to be working on, and to come up with some ideas I found myself reading through Big-D's will.

In it, he mentions the "Matrix Monocle" and his contract for the support of "Etheric Computing Services."

I know the monocle is sort of a mythic item that no one knows what is does, but I am interested in some brainstorming.

So please, toss some ideas out there! What do you think the Matrix Monocle would do, and what is Etheric Computing?

Sky is the limit!

Ether, in the Sixth World, would most definitely be referring to some merged concept of the mythological and quasi-scientific elements defined here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories

It's got to be the notion that computing could be accomplished with a spiritual memory storage medium of some sort. What if data could be stored in an infinitely expansive metaplane at little to no cost? What if data security on such a plane was infinitely superior to physical security?

Sounds a lot like the Resonance Realms to me...

Funny, I was thinking the same thing. Guess the real trick would be letting everyone access it with ease, rather than having a TM take hours at least just to get there.