Talk:EAT/@comment-50.52.44.116-20140216035432/@comment-11170851-20140216165336

Chiming in with my two cents here (warning long post, as I rambled):

1) It's all up to you, as a writer.

If you want to perma-kill EAT in your writings, then do so...The 'character' is a shared idea-concept that's under Creative Commons. There is no hard-fast shared 'this is what happened, this is how we all interpret, and this is what you can/cannot do'

2) To be honest (and note this is my opinion which may not be shared by others in the community)? Tech/cultural leaps are usually the result of groups of people getting obsessed with an idea to the point it permeates through the collective material-community conciousness. ...or becomes something of ridiculously common usage within most character interaction spheres. (The iPod is a brilliant example of this. Mean, twas released 14 or so years ago...and it's now actually more uncommon NOT to see someone with one than it is to see someone with one.)

If nothing else a tech/cultural leap forward seems like a very sneaky mode of infection that would ensure some survival onto the next generation. After all, if you're in the works during the design process, you'll likely know the way to avoid it

(And to be honest, given on how folks usually write transmission/infection route for EAT, it's damned hard to eradicate something that every (currently known) living thing on the planet Earth is known to need. Can't survive without water, 'cause it's in pretty much everything we eat/drink. :3)