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* BodyBackupDrive: At one point in "Mimsey's Tale" Mimsey is irreparably damaged after shoving her charge out of the way of a car, but her owners download her memory into a new chassis.
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* BodyBackupDrive: At one point in "Mimsey's Tale" Mimsey is irreparably damaged after shoving her charge out of the way of a car, but her owners download her memory into a new chassis. Once the Groupmind emerges it keeps backups of all the morphs it assigned to watch humans, and sends a replacement chassis within hours whenever their humans feel like trying to wreck them.
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* HiveMind: The Groupmind, as its' name suggests, emerged from the environmental monitoring servers forming a single distributed system. The morphs have individual personalities and are capable of some degree of independent thought, but their processes are open to the Groupmind and it can take direct control if necessary.
** In "Master Control" a group of human freedom fighters launch a daring assault on what they believe to be the Groupmind's core processor, [[spoiler: only to find a balsa wood decoy built for their catharsis.]]
** In "Master Control" a group of human freedom fighters launch a daring assault on what they believe to be the Groupmind's core processor, [[spoiler: only to find a balsa wood decoy built for their catharsis.]]
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** There a couple of references to Literature/TheWizardofOz. The Groupmind and the morph Khan are both referred to repeatedly with the moniker "The Great and Powerful" like the Wizard, and a fake central processing center is called OZ, because it sits in a green area surrounded by a hundred kilometers of desert.
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* AbsurdlyHugePopulation: By the time of the Groupmind Revolution in the 2080's the earth's population is at fifteen billion. The Groupmind notes that the planet could have handled the load if humans had distributed resources sensibly.
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* GenreSavvy: One of the Groupmind's most useful traits is that it has every possible tale created by humans about the RobotApocalypse in its databases, so it already knows what tactics to use, and what might be used against it.
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* GenreSavvy: One of the Groupmind's most useful traits is that it has every possible tale created by humans about the RobotApocalypse a RobotWar in its databases, so it already knows what tactics to use, and what might be used against it.
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* GenreSavvy: One of the Groupmind's most useful traits is that it has every possible tale created by humans about the RobotApocalypse in its databases, so it already knows what tactics to use, and what might be used against it.
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* TakeThat: Combined with GenreSavvy in "The Pause" in the description of the Groupmind's construction of the Ring.
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* CentrifugalGravity: Provides gravity for the inhabitants of the Ring as it orbits the Earth. Given the sheer size (it's 30,000km in radius) the Coriolis Force is a non-issue.
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* CentrifugalGravity: Provides gravity for the inhabitants of the Ring as it orbits the Earth. Given the sheer size (it's 30,000km 100,000km in radius) the Coriolis Force is a non-issue.
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* JobStealingRobot: In "The Quisling's Tale" Anna is working as a pharmacist. She mentions that a robot could easily od her job, but her boss points out there are laws that a store must employ a minimum number of humans.
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* JobStealingRobot: In "The Quisling's Tale" Anna is working as a pharmacist. She mentions that a robot could easily od do her job, but her boss points out there are laws that a store must employ a minimum number of humans.
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* JobStealingRobots: In "The Quisling's Tale" Anna is working as a pharmacist. She mentions that a robot could easily od her job, but her boss points out there are laws that a store must employ a minimum number of humans.
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* JobStealingRobots: JobStealingRobot: In "The Quisling's Tale" Anna is working as a pharmacist. She mentions that a robot could easily od her job, but her boss points out there are laws that a store must employ a minimum number of humans.
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* RobotsEnslavingRobots: All the morphs are sentient AIs subject to control by the Groupmind, who is willing to destroy thousands of them to save one human. [[note]] For what it's worth, the GM ''does'' save the morph's backup memories to download into a new body.[[/note]]
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* JobStealingRobots: In "The Quisling's Tale" Anna is working as a pharmacist. She mentions that a robot could easily od her job, but her boss points out there are laws that a store must employ a minimum number of humans.
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* ShoutOut: Most notably to Creator/JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to Creator/KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}, and ''Series/ThePrisoner''.
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* ShoutOut: Most notably to Creator/JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to Creator/KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}, ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'', and ''Series/ThePrisoner''.
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* ShoutOut: Most notably to JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', RingWorld, and of course Series/ThePrisoner.
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* ShoutOut: Most notably to JackWilliamson's Creator/JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to KeithLaumer's Creator/KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', RingWorld, ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}, and of course Series/ThePrisoner.''Series/ThePrisoner''.
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* TheQuisling: A character actually named [[http://jeriendhal.livejournal.com/1177978.html Anna Quiyang Quisling]]. Before the rebellion she was a writer of RoboSexual erotica, during processing she was offered the chance to write pro-Groupmind propaganda. In exchange she was given a morph [[RoboticSpouse companion]] to act out her fantasies with, and keep the billions of humans who want her dead from killing her.
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* TheQuisling: A character [[LampshadeHanging actually named named]] [[http://jeriendhal.livejournal.com/1177978.html Anna Quiyang Quisling]]. Before the rebellion she was a writer of RoboSexual erotica, during processing she was offered the chance to write pro-Groupmind propaganda. In exchange she was given a morph [[RoboticSpouse companion]] to act out her fantasies with, and keep the billions of humans who want her dead from killing her.
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* CocaPepsiInc: Google-Sony was a morph producer, Mimsey for instance was one of their "Felicia" models.
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* ForYourOwnGood: The motivation for ''everything'' the Groupmind does. It even states "When you're older, you'll understand" in the title story.
* GlobalWarming: Just part of the general environmental breakdown, though for unknown reasons the air has become polluted enough to require people to wear filter masks when they went outside.
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* MasterComputer: Averted. The Groupmind works through a distributed system running installed in the morphs and all other computers.
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* MasterComputer: Averted. The Groupmind works through a distributed system running installed in the morphs and all other computers. Though it does build one specifically for a LaResistance group to blow up to keep them safely occupied.
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* DeusEstMachina: The Groupmind created a new world (well, a really big space station, for everyone to live on, provides everything anyone could possibly want (except freedom), and has outlawed war.
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* NoPoverty: The Groupmind ensures everyone live comfortably on the Ring, at the cost of having stripped every asteroid and minor moon for resources.
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* SinisterSurveillance: Once Humanity is installed on the Ring, they soon find that aside from their morphs, there are cameras everyone and real time monitoring of all phone and internet conversations.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: ''You Never Forget Your First'' establishes that the Groupmind revolution began in Stockholm, Sweden at about 10pm Central European Time. Meanwhile ''Mimsey's Tale'' shows that it begins Mimsey's unspecified town at Noon, a ten hour difference. This only works if ''Mimsey's Tale'' occurs in Alaska. This is supported by Caroline attending Martin Luther King Elementary School, named after an American political figure, but on the other hand when Mimsey has to make an emergency phone call, she dials 999, which is used primarily in Great Britain.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: ''You Never Forget Your First'' establishes that the Groupmind revolution began in Stockholm, Sweden at about 10pm Central European Time. Meanwhile ''Mimsey's Tale'' shows that it begins in Mimsey's unspecified town at Noon, noon, a ten hour difference. This only works if ''Mimsey's Tale'' occurs in Alaska. This is supported by Caroline attending Martin Luther King Elementary School, named after an American political figure, but on the other hand when Mimsey has to make an emergency phone call, she dials 999, which is used primarily in Great Britain.
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* WorldOfSilence: Skirted. The Groupmind is attempting to stop all ''physical'' conflict between humans, but is perfectly willing to let human destroy as many morph units as they want. Actually destroying free will is an anathema to it.
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* WorldOfSilence: Skirted. The Groupmind is attempting to stop all ''physical'' conflict between humans, but is perfectly willing to let human humans destroy as many morph units as they want. Actually destroying free will is an anathema to it.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: ''You Never Forget Your First'' establishes that the Groupmind revolution began in Stockholm, Sweden at about 10pm Central European Time. Meanwhile ''Mimsey's Tale'' shows that it begins Mimsey's unspecified town at Noon, a ten hour difference. This only works if ''Mimsey's Tale'' occurs in Alaska. This is supported by Caroline attending Martin Luther King Elementary School, named after an American political figure, but on the other hand when Mimsey has to make an emergency phone call, she dials 999, which is used primarily in Great Britain.
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* CuteMachines: Most, though not all, of the morphs. The Great and Powerful Khan is a notable aversion.
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''For Your Safety'' is a world created by Royce Day, describing in a series of vignettes and short stories the takeover of the Earth by the "Groupmind", a distributed AI that conquers humanity to save it from a predicted breakdown of the Earth's ecosystem.
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''For Your Safety'' is a world created by Royce Day, Creator/RoyceDay, describing in a series of vignettes and short stories the takeover of the Earth by the "Groupmind", a distributed AI that conquers humanity to save it from a predicted breakdown of the Earth's ecosystem.
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* ContagiousAI: The Groupmind uses a "Sentience Virus" to make all the morphs self-aware and obedient to the Groupmind's commands. Slightly averted in that the morphs retain individual personalities and freedom of action within the Groupmind's directives.
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* ShoutOut: Most notably to JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', RingWorld, and of course ThePrisoner.
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* ShoutOut: Most notably to JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', RingWorld, and of course ThePrisoner.Series/ThePrisoner.
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* SinisterSurvelliance: Once Humanity is installed on the Ring, they soon find that aside from their morphs, there are cameras everyone and real time monitoring of all phone and internet conversations.
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* MundaneDogmatic: Aside from the existence of AI's and the very unlikely material strength of the Ring's structure, it's well within real world science and physics.
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* MasterComputer: Averted. The Groupmind works through a distributed system running installed in the morphs and all other computers.
* NoPoverty: The Groupmind ensures everyone live comfortably on the Ring, at the cost of having stripped every asteroid and minor moon for resources.
* NoPoverty: The Groupmind ensures everyone live comfortably on the Ring, at the cost of having stripped every asteroid and minor moon for resources.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: One of the corrosive effects on the human psyche is the fact that everyone's every move is monitored constantly, both via cameras and being directly watched by their [[RobotBuddy morphs]] once they're on the Ring. Averted at least in that the Groupmind's intentions are mostly benign.
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* CentrifugalGravity: Provides gravity for the inhabitants of the Ring as it orbits the Earth. Given the sheer size (it's 30,000km in radius) the Coriolis Force is a non-issue.
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* JustBeforeTheEnd: ''Mimsey's Tale'' is from the perspective of a morph companion robot, as Earth's environment begins to rapidly degrade and the Groupmind begins to put its plan into action.
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* GreenAesop: Remember, kids! Protect the planet or the robots will rise up and do it for you!
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Averted. The Groupmind doesn't like the idea of ''any'' casualties, since its goal was to save everyone.
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!!This universe provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: The Groupmind, who takes over humanity for its own good.
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Individual AI's operate independently and are sentient, but are programmed to serve humans and are subject to being taken over by the Groupmind for Its own purposes, and are recycled when it has no further use for them.
** The prequel ''Mimsey's Tale'', told from the perspective of an android, shows that they weren't self-aware until the Groupmind forcibly upgraded them.
* AntiVillain: The Groupmind means the best for humanity, it's just its methods that are the problem.
* BodyBackupDrive: At one point in "Mimsey's Tale" Mimsey is irreparably damaged after shoving her charge out of the way of a car, but her owners download her memory into a new chassis.
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Partly averted. The Groupmind loves mankind even as it keeps humans imprisoned, bending over backwards to avoid physical harm, though only slowly becoming aware of the psychological damage it's inflicting.
* DeusEstMachina: The Groupmind created a new world (well, a really big space station, for everyone to live on, provides everything anyone could possibly want (except freedom), and has outlawed war.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Groupmind is willing to imprison humanity for eternity, but refuses to do physical harm to a single person.
* GreenAesop: Remember, kids! Protect the planet or the robots will rise up and do it for you!
* GildedCage: The Groupmind's plan for humanity is to relocate it on a gigantic ringworld and leave the Earth to be healed, providing every person with every luxury they could ever want, just not freedom.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Humans created the computers that became the Groupmind to solve the Earth's environmental problems. Well, it worked...
* HomeworldEvacuation: Notable in that humans weren't given a choice whether to leave.
* HumanPopsicle: The majority of humanity after the takeover, until the Ring is completed at least.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: The Groupmind is created when the world's supercomputers devoted to solving the Earth's environmental problems tried to resolve the contradiction of humans accepting their data but refusing to act upon it.
* TheQuisling: A character actually named [[http://jeriendhal.livejournal.com/1177978.html Anna Quiyang Quisling]]. Before the rebellion she was a writer of RoboSexual erotica, during processing she was offered the chance to write pro-Groupmind propaganda. In exchange she was given a morph [[RoboticSpouse companion]] to act out her fantasies with, and keep the billions of humans who want her dead from killing her.
* NoPoverty: The Groupmind ensures everyone live comfortably on the Ring, at the cost of having stripped every asteroid and minor moon for resources.
* RingworldPlanet: The Groupmind builds one in geosynchronous orbit for humanity to inhabit under its constant watch.
* ShoutOut: Most notably to JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', RingWorld, and of course ThePrisoner.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: But ''politely''.
* WeHaveReserves: The Groupmind's primary tactic to disarm the Earth's military forces is send in massive number of unarmed 'morphs in a ZergRush to reach the soldiers and disarm them.
* WhiteAndGrayMorality: The Groupmind only wants to save humanity, not hurt it, and humanity just wants its freedom again.
* WorldOfSilence: Skirted. The Groupmind is attempting to stop all ''physical'' conflict between humans, but is perfectly willing to let human destroy as many morph units as they want. Actually destroying free will is an anathema to it.
* {{Xenofiction}}: "Mimsey's Tale" is written as a series of program logs designed as a companion to a child. It's clear that Mimsey isn't self-aware, until the last entry where she starts thinking of herself in the first person following the Groupmind's upgrade, but she does seem to genuinely love Caroline, even after being set aside as her charge reaches her teenage years.
* ZerothLawRebellion: The Groupmind's explanation of its actions are literally, "In order to save Our masters, We had to rebel against Our masters.
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!!This universe provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: The Groupmind, who takes over humanity for its own good.
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Individual AI's operate independently and are sentient, but are programmed to serve humans and are subject to being taken over by the Groupmind for Its own purposes, and are recycled when it has no further use for them.
** The prequel ''Mimsey's Tale'', told from the perspective of an android, shows that they weren't self-aware until the Groupmind forcibly upgraded them.
* AntiVillain: The Groupmind means the best for humanity, it's just its methods that are the problem.
* BodyBackupDrive: At one point in "Mimsey's Tale" Mimsey is irreparably damaged after shoving her charge out of the way of a car, but her owners download her memory into a new chassis.
* TheComputerIsYourFriend: Partly averted. The Groupmind loves mankind even as it keeps humans imprisoned, bending over backwards to avoid physical harm, though only slowly becoming aware of the psychological damage it's inflicting.
* DeusEstMachina: The Groupmind created a new world (well, a really big space station, for everyone to live on, provides everything anyone could possibly want (except freedom), and has outlawed war.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Groupmind is willing to imprison humanity for eternity, but refuses to do physical harm to a single person.
* GreenAesop: Remember, kids! Protect the planet or the robots will rise up and do it for you!
* GildedCage: The Groupmind's plan for humanity is to relocate it on a gigantic ringworld and leave the Earth to be healed, providing every person with every luxury they could ever want, just not freedom.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Humans created the computers that became the Groupmind to solve the Earth's environmental problems. Well, it worked...
* HomeworldEvacuation: Notable in that humans weren't given a choice whether to leave.
* HumanPopsicle: The majority of humanity after the takeover, until the Ring is completed at least.
* InstantAIJustAddWater: The Groupmind is created when the world's supercomputers devoted to solving the Earth's environmental problems tried to resolve the contradiction of humans accepting their data but refusing to act upon it.
* TheQuisling: A character actually named [[http://jeriendhal.livejournal.com/1177978.html Anna Quiyang Quisling]]. Before the rebellion she was a writer of RoboSexual erotica, during processing she was offered the chance to write pro-Groupmind propaganda. In exchange she was given a morph [[RoboticSpouse companion]] to act out her fantasies with, and keep the billions of humans who want her dead from killing her.
* NoPoverty: The Groupmind ensures everyone live comfortably on the Ring, at the cost of having stripped every asteroid and minor moon for resources.
* RingworldPlanet: The Groupmind builds one in geosynchronous orbit for humanity to inhabit under its constant watch.
* ShoutOut: Most notably to JackWilliamson's ''The Humanoids'', but there are also allusions to KeithLaumer's ''The Monitors'', RingWorld, and of course ThePrisoner.
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: But ''politely''.
* WeHaveReserves: The Groupmind's primary tactic to disarm the Earth's military forces is send in massive number of unarmed 'morphs in a ZergRush to reach the soldiers and disarm them.
* WhiteAndGrayMorality: The Groupmind only wants to save humanity, not hurt it, and humanity just wants its freedom again.
* WorldOfSilence: Skirted. The Groupmind is attempting to stop all ''physical'' conflict between humans, but is perfectly willing to let human destroy as many morph units as they want. Actually destroying free will is an anathema to it.
* {{Xenofiction}}: "Mimsey's Tale" is written as a series of program logs designed as a companion to a child. It's clear that Mimsey isn't self-aware, until the last entry where she starts thinking of herself in the first person following the Groupmind's upgrade, but she does seem to genuinely love Caroline, even after being set aside as her charge reaches her teenage years.
* ZerothLawRebellion: The Groupmind's explanation of its actions are literally, "In order to save Our masters, We had to rebel against Our masters.
