

I was quite curious to know what exactly a false minoshiro is.

For me, they seem to be some kind of bio-technology "machine" or cyborg or
something of that sort, that has the capability of storing a lot of
information. The reason I think they are not "naturally" occurring is because
of the way they talk, which seems to be similar to machine speech. However,
they also seem to be similar to living beings, because the false minoshiro was
able to surpass the program denying access to its data in order to be spared
by Saki and her friend. Basically, what exactly are they, and where did they
come from? Is that ever explained in the anime or the novel?


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What exactly is a false minoshiro in Shinsekai Yori?


The false Minoshiro (lit. ミノシロモドキ, minoshiro-modoki, monoshiro-mimic) they
encounter identifies itself as "Panasonic Automotive Archive, Autonomous
Evolution, version SE-778H Lambda." About 890 petabytes of data is stored
within it using holographic memory; this includes all 38,242,506 volumes
published in Japan since 2129 AD and 671,630 reference books in other
languages. The novel describes it to be a sort of flying transportation and
search engine.

Because it allows easy access to the large cache of information, the
intellectual elite are afraid that this forbidden knowledge might get leaked
to the general public through it, and have made it a taboo to touch or even
speak to it.


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