"Wild Palms": What was the "Go chip" for?

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In the 1993 ABC cyberpunk miniseries Wild Palms – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Palms – the McGuffin of the story, which the megalomaniacal Senator Kreutzer was trying to obtain, was a piece of computer technology called the “Go chip.” But I was never clear on the purpose or function of the “Go chip.” Something to do with achieving personal immortality as a downloaded mind, I think. Does anybody remember?

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Sorry. The only things I remember about that mini are the rhino, the Edwardian collars, and Cory Matthews as the Naziesque uberkind.

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That was Ben Savage.

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So was Cory Matthews. :smiley:

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I remember Angie Dickinson as a scary, psychotic, sexually obsessed she-devil. Nice.

I think the “Go chip” was supposed to allow a human mind to be completely encoded into a computer network – as happens to the Senator.