Miscellaneous, Non-Frivolous ASB Ideas II

Made similar arguments in my initial post, yeah.

Quoting myself for your convenience:



Besides that, I'm thinking that pretty much every dead person is given automatic proficiency in using the internet by default, up to and including understanding modern languages (if not necessarily pop-culture references or history since they passed from the scene). Of course, something else that's occurred to me is whether or not that includes babies or young children who died long before reaching adulthood, which seems to be stretching it a bit much. That said, I'd be okay with, say, cases where Julia (Caesar's daughter) holds her baby in her lap on a Zoom call, meaning that — even though they can't independently interface with the living on their own — there are still kids in the afterlife who can still use the Web with their parents' help and supervision. That is, unless they were old enough to read, write, and understand the world around them by the time they died IOTL — in which case, they're just as free to post and browse the Web as the adults are.

Based on this AH.con thread: ‘1980s People Watch YouTube’.

As in, modern YouTube becomes fully available on downtimers’ TV sets, which they can then navigate with keyboards and joystick-like controls the ASB has plugged in for them (as opposed to turning the TV dial every which way, like Fifties audiences in the original scenario). Governments are also prevented from censoring content or removing the new features ASB has provided to TVs worldwide, so barring mass-confiscation and destruction of TV sets, odds are they’ll have to clench their jaws and cope — whatever the consequences may be.

Cross-posting from The ISOT Thread: ‘Modern Classicists Become Alexander The Great’s Tutors’.

In other words, the likes of Adrian Goldsworthy, Mary Beard, Victor Davis Hanson, and other contemporary experts on Antiquity are sent back in time to tutor a teenaged Alexander. ASB also hand-waves any linguistic barriers or “rash” responses by Philip II, Olympias, or their general retinue, as well as allotting the uptimer tutors with quarters bedecked with twenty-first century accommodations — as well as the various broadcast networks, power supplies, and maintenance crews needed for their upkeep and continued use.

WI: USSR and the rest of the Eastern bloc convert to market economy in 1956.

Someone's mind is inserted into Frederick the Great's body, but it doesn't replace original Frederick or merge with his: they exist as two completely separate selves. Like DID. They can communicate with each other mentally, and the SI and OG Fritz work together to propel Prussia even further into the Great Powers Club: SI provides the cheats, and OG Fritz helps him act properly in 1700s Europe. Frederick was known to have many different, sometimes conflicting personalities he would show to different people, and this is essentially an extension of that.
TL;DR Prussia wank