Searching Far and Wide

[intricate_engineer]

Glen was creating a prototype for a new gate design. It was meant to be affordable and provide quick transport between individual homes. She tests several objects and a rat and everything seems to be working.

She steps through. Instead of finding herself in the room next door, she finds herself standing on a sidewalk in an empty city. The buildings are tall and perfect, colorless with doorways far too tall for any human. The roads have no straight lines and twist in on themselves. There is no life or sound.
Glen tries to stay calm. She begins to walk along the road, randomly opening doors and exploring buildings that are as silent as the rest of the world.

She opens a door that she hopes will lead onto a roof and is instead met with warmth, and soft noise, and color.

Comments

[the_very_best]

"If you get a serious injury to a 'mon with a healing move that can sometimes help but sometimes it makes it worse, the moves are not specced for humans, so you pretty much only try that if you're dying."

[intricate_engineer]

"There's a standard info dump that is sent to new worlds. I have a copy. It's technically illegal to distribute it, since it can cause a lot of damage if given to an unprepared world. But you guys seem so peaceful, maybe it's safe to try? Do you have any idea who would be a good person to approach?"

[the_very_best]

"We don't have a lot of nonlocal governance. Is it, like, highly technical, would need a lot of work to get it working here, or is it more like stuff you want to advertise?"

[intricate_engineer]

"There's advertising, but this isn't it. This is for after they've already agreed. It's highly technical material, but it's broken down as much as possible. Theoretically, anyone who is literate could eventually understand all of it."

[the_very_best]

"For distribution I'd say going to the offices of Elite Four, which are technically a Pokémon tournament credentialing organization per region, but for tech stuff I'd say go to Jubilife and drop it on the tech companies there."

[intricate_engineer]

"Who could keep it under control? There's a lot of potential to wreck an economy or create monopolies."

[the_very_best]

"I don't know them in all that much detail. Wreck an economy how?"

[intricate_engineer]

"Mostly by increasing unemployment? There are a lot of ways to automate stuff."

[the_very_best]

"A lot of stuff is automated already..."

[intricate_engineer]

"But humans man stores right? And collect the raw materials? And transport the goods?"

[the_very_best]

"With 'mon help, yes."

[intricate_engineer]

"Right. Well all of that can be done by machines."

[the_very_best]

"Okay, but all kinds of things have become more efficient and it's been good for the economy."

[intricate_engineer]

"I think the problem isn't that it happens, it's that it all happens at once."

[the_very_best]

"Release it piecemeal, then? Although I think we could probably already automate shopkeeping, it's just not popular."

[intricate_engineer]

"I think that's the idea, and why releasing it all publicly could be a problem. Also, there's the potential to mess up. People might be tempted to try stuff before they actually understand it, especially with medicine."

[the_very_best]

"It's an understandable temptation. And unless humans work exactly the same here as everywhere else there'd be an experimental phase anyway..."

[intricate_engineer]

"Are medicines regulated?"

[the_very_best]

"Some? What do you mean specifically?"

[intricate_engineer]

"New medicines in our worlds have to go through an strictly regulated process before they can be sold to the public."

[the_very_best]

"I don't think our process is very 'strictly'. You're not allowed to lie about what's in a medicine or why you think it works, and there's review institutions that do independent checks and you're not allowed to forge their approval."

[intricate_engineer]

"That sounds safe enough, as long as no one tries to skip the process."

[the_very_best]

"Eh, you get people trying to do all kinds of things but I don't think we have a major problem there?"

[intricate_engineer]

"So I think unemployment, hasty usage, and violence are the largest problems, and it seems like most of those are covered here. I can send the government the information? I'll need some sort of introduction."

[the_very_best]

"I am afraid I do not know the government on a personal basis. Closest thing is my dad's a cop."