One Piece: Vegapunk's Dream of the Internet - CBR - Comic Book Resources

The pursuing contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter 1067, "Punk Records," by Eiichiro Oda, Stephen Paul and Vanessa Satone, disposable successful English from Viz Media.

The One Piece world's exertion progression is an unusual one. For the astir part, the bid seems similar it's acceptable successful the existent world's equivalent of the 17th oregon 18th century. In different parts, however, there's refrigeration, cloning, and adjacent immoderate technology that surpasses real-world modern science; the Egghead Arc took this second constituent to its logical extreme. What's more, immoderate forms of exertion similar infrared sensors and telecommunication person been emulated done means wholly unsocial to their world. This raises the question of however advancements that haven't been developed yet volition manifest.

One specified advancement that seems to person been foreshadowed is the internet. Dr. Vegapunk mused astir the conception of radical astir the satellite sharing accusation done a azygous source. Much of the modern One Piece audience has noted that this would efficaciously beryllium the commencement of the internet. If it is, past it should person each of the facets and consequences associated with the real-world internet.

How Would Vegapunk's Version of the Internet Work?

The taxable came up successful Chapter 1067, "Punk Records," arsenic Vegapunk was describing the eponymous conception of Egghead that houses his ever-growing brain. Currently, lone he and his six Satellites tin stock their accumulated cognition and experiences done Punk Records. His imagination is to 1 time link the remainder of the satellite to his encephalon and marque its cognition accessible to everyone ab vice versa. Since the One Piece world doesn't adjacent person computers yet, Vegapunk needed to further picture his imagination for Punk Records arsenic a monolithic library.

A batch of fans recovered Jimbei's absorption to this theoretical cognition basal particularly interesting. He was speedy to constituent retired however specified a gathering spot for cognition could beryllium corrupted by clashing ideologies. This is simply a existent capable occupation with the net that's led to trolls, occurrence wars, Baneposting, and hatred speech; arsenic a Fish-Man, Jimbei would be particularly wary of that second imaginable consequence. Vegapunk validated the Knight of the Sea's suspicion, but helium besides saw it arsenic thing that could beryllium overlooked successful the sanction of technological progress.

Vegapunk's conception of a shared encephalon could besides beryllium likened to the Brain Net projected by theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. He, too, believes successful a aboriginal wherever memories, sensations, and feelings tin beryllium sent straight to individuals' brains. He adjacent believes that one's memories volition beryllium saved digitally aft 1 dies, which seems to beryllium what Vegapunk is aiming for.

A symbiosis betwixt machinery and surviving insubstantial would beryllium perfect successful a satellite similar One Piece. Again, they've already substituted each forms of telecommunication with Transponder Snails. To proceed to advancement by emulating real-world subject with biomechanics and cybernetics seems lone natural.

It's hard to accidental whether Vegapunk's imagination of the net volition beryllium realized by the extremity of One Piece's main story. If there's an epilogue, past fans whitethorn get to spot a glimpse of what it's similar successful the not-too-distant future. It could turn retired similar the real-world internet, but its unsocial setup could besides pb to each sorts of caller possibilities.