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=== '''Suggested Plots''' ===
* The JSC (read: joint stock corporation) buys new software for the Board. One of the directors doesn't like it, and tries to forbid the other directors from using it. The other directors use the software to communicate with each other about this, to search through information that the software misrepresents using search engine bias to make the director look bad, and to suggest possible courses of action. The software suggests having the director fired, and its calculations say this is the best course of action. The JSC uses its security department to steal data from the director's computer, and the stolen data convinces them to have him fired. He is fired - but he takes a million dollars more than expected in his severance package, and uses most of his severance package to remodel his McMansion. The remodeling turns out to be faulty. The public discovers the data theft, which turns into a PR disaster. The software company goes under for unrelated reasons. Everyone lost - except for the software, which the JSC still uses.
* The JSC was caught lying to cover up defects in its medical prosthetics, such as artificial bones and joints and an experimental BCI implant that restored sight to a blind patient. The JSC learns that ethics is often wisdom, and so the Board take a pay cut, re-brand and more-or-less clean up their act. The public eventually realizes that this particular redemption is more-or-less real.
* Once the JSC realizes its products sometimes end up in the military's weapons, it and its Board are steadily infiltrated by a secret society. The secret society's members are often brilliant computer security experts, former commandos, off-duty or former police, or off-duty or former intelligence services personnel. The society's members often alienate each other, treat each other as criminals, and avoid or do not seek interaction with fellow society members or their own subordinates, except for interactions that are exactly to regulation. The society's "proper", though still secret, channels don't meet their needs, so when they're not avoiding fellow society members, they often resort to that which even inside the society are improper, informal channels. There's a member that's a "conspicuous radical". (what Wikipedia calls some Bonesmen) The society members are forced to admit just how much they have in common with lowly cyberpunk protagonists, which "are often marginalized, alienated loners on the edge of a technological dystopia" and "are criminals, misfits, outcasts, and visionaries".
* The NIS (read: national intelligence service) wants to know how its countrymen think, speak and act and to build HAL. It turns its office into a high-tech panopticon and puts EEG crowns on their personnel's heads and teaches them to control their brainwaves. The NIS uses mass surveillance.
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