Carcharoth wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
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You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in constant streaming twitter mode all the time. There won't be "articles" per se, and you won't get input from a single page, you'll get continuous input from a million sources simultaneously in twitt-bits.
<look of abject horror>
I wouldn't be so horrified if that didn't sound so plausible.
Is it too late to try the 'Culture' route? (Iain M. Banks)
Banks' is the "utopian version". The dystopian/nihilist version is the "One True" multiverse of John Barnes. I really hate the fact that the author I love above all others wrote such a disgusting, horrifying, and inescapably compelling vision of the future.
And yes, I know that 'Culture' is only utopian if you ignore the fnords.
Abject apologies for contributing to the worrisome trend of this channel to descend to non-wikipedia related non sequiturs, but there are times when one simply has to let ones pop cult. erudition get the better of oneself. <wide smirk>
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen