Techwizard sounds good.

SYL

OK, so with the new WMI, we don't have decks any more. I don' understand why the SR universe will fall backwards SIXTY YEARS to dig up a new term.

Hell, we still call police cars paddy wagons, and I don't see very many second generation Irish driving them any more.

Decker is an integral component, as is rigger. Even if they use the same game mechanic, they are intrinsically different.

Texperts!

Since deckers were named after cyberdecks, and riggers were named after vehicle control rigs, what is the new whiz-bang piece of cyber going to be called? If we knew that little bit of data, maybe an obvious name would present itself.

The new peice of wear is a "hack"

moreover, why did the real universe fall back two hundred years to dig up a new term for guys who illegally copy software?

Techsans!

How about?
Wusses.
Cry Babys.
Skint.
Weedy.
Or any other insult i can think up at the time.

Skint has to be my fav tho.

I might be wrong, but: Hackers are supposed to be a fusion of Deckers and Riggers, the same way Mages, Shamans and Adepts are all Awakened. Why not add Sammys (Razors, whatever. Anyone with a good load of cyberware) to the Decker/Rigger mix, and just call the lot "Cybers"? Then they can still have their individual names, and also some sort of common descriptor. IMO, there's as much similarity between Adepts and Mages as there is between a sammy and a rigger.

Techticians!

Deckers...Hackers...

Daiquiris!

-Siege

in 206x, bitbasher, they don't. hacker isn't cool, in 206x. that doesn't mean that by 207x, hacker hasn't come back into vogue--especially since the name "hacker house" indicates that everyone (or, at least, every decker) knows what a hacker is.

Techstylers!

I still like skint.
Maybe Skints as a collective term.

I diffidently note that "Hackers" is a blanket term in the same way "Adepts" is. It's entirely possible that more specific terms will continue to be used in the correct context.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add, my vote is to leave them deckers.

The term decker is part of the inherint atmosphere, and is a word directly related and recognized as SR. It's not exactly a brilliant plan to take words that we do associate with SR and remove them thereby it having less unique recognition.

Contechs!

Congratulations - it sounds like this thread has recreated what the Fanpro developers probably went through three months ago.

"I like this term!"
"Nah - not catchy."
"What about this term"
"Nope - sounds racist."
"This?"
"All right, but kinda dumb."
"That?"
"It really means this."
"How about this?"
"We'll write it down as possible. Next?..."


Jacker sounds promising, though Decker or hacker would fit equally well - as in, not great, but not stupid sounding. Whether it fits perfectly is irrelevant IMO, because the public is never concerned with whether it's apt - only if it's catchy.

Completely tangential: jacker always makes me think of Tribe 8, where the Jackers were one of the post-apocalypic factions.

Diggers? (Although I kind of like Slicer as was suggested earlier.)

Slicer is taken though, I'd imagine there'd be trouble if SR went around and took names from Starwars.

Since the new Matrix is wireless, why not rip off the Wi-Fi community and call them 'warcallers' and 'wardrivers'? 'Warthinkers' and 'Warwalkers' sounds equally cool.