Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter5 (section)

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'''Benefits and Products of the 100x Boost

DT’s interior is boosted 100x, but that boosted speed is actually made by slowing the virtual world which naturally exists at the speed of light. After World War Two, when DT first became a virtual world, its speed was unstable and its OS was formatted to fix that.

People normally function based on bioelectric signals, so when they are virtualized, their senses are replaced with virtual ones that give them a maximum sensory speed of about a million times normal.

But only increasing reaction speed only makes time stretch out longer, so programs applied the boost settings to physical movement, chemical reactions, and such to transform DT into a world where everything moves at 100x speed.

Thus, DT’s interior is actually a trick used to make the 100x speed look like a world moving at ordinary speed.

But simply applying a 100x boost with programs would cause objects to overheat from the heat of their movement. Thus, a cooling program must be constantly running to reduce the heat as much as it is increased. Similarly, a tuning program is used to boost a portion of the metabolism to prevent accelerated aging, allowing residents’ aging to progress at the same speed as in the outside world. This tuning program is relaxed on individuals when they are injured or recuperating from illness, but it is generally applied to all of DT.

The accuracy of the cooling and tuning has increased dramatically since the early days of DT, but for the settings change on July 7, 2000 DT, the plan is to first increase the boost from 100x to 110x and perform some research.

There are a variety of benefits to spending so much money and technology on creating a 100x boosted world, but the primary ones are convenience of technological development, accelerated data processing, bug recovery using the resonance with backed up data, holding prisoners sentenced to long terms, and giving terminally ill patients some extra time. However, chemistry research is difficult since the chemical reactions related to the metabolism are so heavily tuned. On the other hand, engineering, design, and data processing are accelerated so that DT residents are often hired when the item being developed is worth the cost.

Also, since adjustments to the tuning program can allow for short-term recovery from injuries, it is often used by athletes and soldiers.

One virtual benefit that is less obvious while within DT is that being a virtual world means no physical wiring or chips are necessary for communications and computing. Anyone can buy a program trigon giving them authorization to reduce DT’s boost on them and they can borrow a portion of the DT OS’s functionality, open a keyboard anywhere in the city, and carry out their computing or communications task.

The ability for anyone to create data can be seen as the greatest technology supporting DT.