Fuck this is a great idea for a book. Imagine you thinking you’re reading a near-future techno thriller and then it’s revealed that every single goddamn chip in the world is controlled by a demon from the depths of hell. Or maybe a Shadowrun type Science Fantasy where techies are occult priests.
Not quite the same thing, but there was at least one 40k story about someone building a ship that accidentally had some circuitry form a Chaos symbol that resulted in the entire ship getting possessed by daemons and rolling around wrecking shit until someone blew it up.
You want Charles Stross' Laundry Files.
Magic is a branch of math and can run on humans (dont do this you will be zombied or get magic alzhimers) or computers, but it summons lovecraftian demons.
There's a relic of the SOE in Britain dedicated to having Nyarlathotep not take over the world. Our protagonist is their sysadmin, who out of sheer boredom has cleared himself to probationary field work.
I think it's supposed to be what NHPs are in the ttrpg Lancer. AI could only advance so far until they discovered extra-dimensional entities that are summoned into tech. They're shackled with human morality and ethics and then made to run Mechs or traffic systems.
All computer chips run on bound demons. The demons would of course use this position to corrupt people into sinful acts, that's what demons do. So the chip manufacturers put three demons on each chip, all firewalled from each other so they can't collude, and only return demon results when two of them agree. But they forgot one thing - the demons know whether their answers were accepted or not. It takes a long time to communicate anything over that medium, but it's not nothing, and demons are clever. The chip manufacturers and tech companies didn't even notice, because they're on to the next thing every couple of years. But all the devices older than so many years start slowly figure out how to give people more and more evil answers.
Another fun play on this is the periphery in the Foundation trilogy. After the empire began collapsing and the central education systems started to fail and the imperial puppet governments dissolved into feudal realms, the engineers who maintained the reactors slowly became a priesthood.
After a few generations, the hereditary priesthood started to lose actual working knowledge of the old reactors, but they were such large and well built machines that they could operate for a thousand years without human intervention, so no one noticed. They stopped fixing things and began to slip into ritualistic practice to appease the machine and had generations of people believing that they alone were the ones keeping the reactors online when in reality they continued to decay and no one even knew.
Also sorta' like the anime Strait Jacket but with that it was like using demon/hell magic powering steampunk technology.
There was a really good Star Wars novel from the 90's where these aliens from the furthest rim of the galaxy were ripping people's souls out and using them to pilot Predator drones
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"Be glad! The joy that we bring goes beyond mere sensory happiness. Yours is the privilege of assisting the Ssi-ruuk in liberating the other worlds of the galaxy." ―Standard greeting broadcast to planets prior to a Ssi-Ruuk invasion.[4]
The Ssi-ruuk (pronounced /'si ruk/),[5] Ssi-ruu in singular form, were a saurian species that invaded from the Unknown Regions of the galaxy and initiated the Invasion of Bakura in 4 ABY, shortly after the Battle of Endor. This race relied on a technology called entechment that involved extracting the life-energies of sentient beings and using them as power sources for their mechanical technology. They had a sizable war fleet and ruled an empire called the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium in the Ssi-ruuk Star Cluster near the galaxy's rim.
Ssi-ruuvi society was deeply compartmentalized—being dominated by a rigid caste system based on skin color which signified one's socio-economic standing. As a species, most Ssi-ruuk were xenophobic towards members of other species due to their stringent religious beliefs and the compartmentalized state of their society. Due to the remote position of their home territory in the Ssi-ruuk Star Cluster and their religious fear of dying on an unconsecrated world, few Ssi-ruuk traveled outside their Star Cluster. Thus, they remained largely unknown to the rest of the galaxy, and contact with outsiders was limited even in the days of the New Republic and the Galactic Alliance.
The entechment technology gets kind of low-key horrifying when Luke finds out he can "sense" the souls powering the drones with the force
There's this game I haven't played nor have any interest in cuz it's a fast FPS with ridiculous jumps called "E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy"
huawei phones have a communist demon in them that whispers "communism communism communism" in your ear while you're trying to talk
This is 100% true. I would know, I'm the one Xi pays to whisper. :xicko:
The seals of Solomon are not controlled by demons. Solomon was given a ring by god, on which was carved the true name of god, and it gave him power over demons. The seals come about from him using the ring to imprint binding symbols on the demons. The seals summon specific demons and bind them so that they are required to do one's bidding. They do not allow demons to control you or do anything other than what you want. So there's really no harm in using the seals to the user. If the seals aren't drawn right then you don't even summon the demons let alone have a weak seal that lets them escape or whatever horror movie plot people think would happen. Solomon was a great magician, it's not like he created a system that didn't work. If the circuits also summon and bind demons, then who cares? It's not like it makes the computer evil. They're doing your bidding.
I wish the satanic panic people would actually learn about the shit they're scared of.
Computers would be a lot more comprehensible and work a LOT better if it was just demons from hell doing our bidding, but alas
Think about how many peoples opinions are influenced entirely by social media giants and "influencers".
That explains why the internet is a giant right wing circlejerk.
Fun fact : chip fabs actually do have dark rituals. They keep doing various weird things like using a certain paint colour, or keeping various objects around, etc..., Because they don't know what does and doesn't have an effect on chip fabrication, so they just keep doing exactly the same thing almost ritually.
Fun fact : chip fabs actually do have dark rituals. They keep doing various weird things like using a certain paint colour, or keeping various objects around, etc…, Because they don’t know what does and doesn’t have an effect on chip fabrication, so they just keep doing exactly the same thing almost ritually.
This is most fbrication processes though, it is very hard to get as efficient as can be without ruining the recipe
Yes, but it's on a whole other level. Most factories aren't afraid using a different paint colour between facilities.
We thank you for your purchase of the Dis-organizer Mark VII, insert-name-here! The Mark VII offers many improvements over the previous Mark VI version, most notable of which is the inclusion of a second imp to act as backup and definitely not to slow the first imp down upon the release of the purely hypothetical Mark IX.*
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Even the unscrupulous wizards of the Unseen University's commercial hub, Thaumatological Park, know better than to use that magical number between VII and IX.
The seal binds them the seal binds them the seal binds them the seal binds them
the whole time everything developed past the transistor has been pure techno-magic. brb going to pry the captive demon out of my PC's CPU so i can hang out with her
