Narrator Neural Network—this was the name Gawain had given to Cecil's future Mind Network. It would be an enormous project with far-reaching consequences, and the fields it involved naturally went far beyond merely providing research assistance.
According to Gawain's plans, the Narrator Neural Network would encompass research, communications, education, and public entertainment. It could provide computing support for countless research projects and become an indispensable part of people's daily lives. One day, the vast Narrator Neural Network might even become a gigantic Wetware Host spanning the entire Cecil Empire through the tens of thousands of human brain nodes constantly connected to it...
The distributed devices connected to the Narrator Neural Network would become the Wetware Host's interactive terminals. The surplus computing power of countless human brains would illuminate an unprecedented path in information technology. Vast numbers of ordinary people could safely contribute computing power to the empire, while the process would also enrich citizens' spiritual lives. And all of this would begin with this Imperial Calculation Center.
This was the method Gawain had conceived for unlocking the next tier of the technology tree in a world whose physical laws differed vastly from Earth's, and it was also a crucial step in harmlessly adapting The Sleeper's technology.
Wendy was describing what she had seen in the "illusion realm" with a hint of excitement, while the archbishops beside her were clearly quite interested in her account. To be fair, Cecil's current "Narrator Neural Network" was still extremely primitive, and the "entertainment programs" it could present were hardly more sophisticated than what these Sleepers had seen. They had once created the lifelike Dream City, a paradise-like "perfect sanctuary." In Gawain's eyes, its appeal was no less than that of a few magic movie clips or certain "entertainment scenes"—perhaps even greater.
Yet what the