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From the pyramid
to the microchip
short article
by slippyzip-capetown
Quite a difference in size and perspective, in the pyramidical days we
knew the earth was huge, now we know how small earth is.
Have we been humbled through the long years of our infancy as a
lifeform ?
Now as actual space and large objects on ground earth become ever
increasingly expensive and unbearable to maintain, we create for ourselves
a universe within this universe, of seemingly unlimited space and
possibility.
This space which we create and control, live and work in.
Cyberspace.
May 2086 : CapeTown/ZA : locating scene Those billions who could never afford even a modest apartment, live in
the poisonous slums of outersociety hooked to the leftover nets and webs
discarded by the previous generations, always hungry, always ill and
hoping to win the world citizens lottery for an apartment and password to
the virtual networks.
hex-c - May:23:2086 Language:engspk Jeez my bodybox went awry the other day, I almost killed my PDD
(podDerouter),the damn thing got stuck in the limbroutine, I went through
12 loops before the PDD adjusted the sequence, took it 15 minutes to do
it, it's a bloody disgrace ! I'm sleeping better since the PDD upgraded
the slab, the headrest is real funkie, and I get superior neura-stim,
waking up with my brain in high mode.. it was worth every cc (cycredit).
Lemme intro myself: I'm hex-c..or heksie or Vyg Fynbos Pod-cvb34566AB234,
I live in sector 904, Area 760, CapeTown/ZA. I'm a RL1 for sector 904, and
I have 740 cc's. (RL is the abbreviation for Route Leader.. I check and
maintain all the routes in sector 904, I have level 1 access to the
c-frame [c-frame is the controller frame for this sector, the c-frame
links to the the local vrP.{vrP is the virtual reality Prism for Area
760}]
-log out. to be continued I'll tell you about the skinparty I went
to..got 2wrk..c y 8er
- don't frustrate yourself with a slow connection
- wait for a and when surf is up
The time has
come for society to discard the old ways and think about what we can do
with all this knowledge and processing power.
Bytes from the Mother
- short fiction memo for the currently
enabled.
Billions of human
units crammed together. The modest and average apartment of each human is
about 4 square meters. Two people living together have 8 square meters,
Three people living together have 10 square meters and families of four or
more a maximum of 12 square meters. The superrich and eletist few with
their luxury estates and apartments are far removed from middle society.
My pod is really great,
I have a state of the art virtualunit, and my access level is DF+450. Hey,
I actually have more realspace than most, I measured it again to checked
and it adds up to 4.012 m². My fooder is recent Sony model and I've
customised some great menus. I really enjoy messing with my fooder, I
suppose I'm a byte of a freak, cause I don't know anybody else who thinks
about the fooder, they just intake according to the autofunctions.
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An Introduction to The Hive Society
- an article by Heksie Gertenbach When last have you sat with a globe of earth in your hands and examined the different continents, the oceans, the nations ?
Lovely fertile blue and green earth, a planet of stunning beauty and home to millions of lifeforms, including ourselves of course.
So long to all the fish.
Billions of humans eating, drinking, buying, driving,
excreting. Can you imagine the amount of garbage this amounts to ?
All
the poisons people are generating every day ?
Billions of tons of
waste.
So here we all are on earth, we don't have spacetravel, and won't for a while yet, and when do have spacetravel, only a few selected elite humans will be leaving earth. This means we have to make do with what we have left here on earth, which is not much. We have poisoned our lands and seas and air, and continue to do so, even though we know it is destroying our only home, earth.
However, humans are highly adaptable and through the use of science we will go into the future, compelled by life itself, but and this really is a big but, we will not be entering the future as the same humans we are now.
Humans are changing, adapting, we have to, in order to survive.
How are we changing ?
We are changing biologically and psychologically. Biological change is a slow process and it is caused by a multitude of biotic factors.
Biotic factors such as the air we breath, food we eat, environments we surround ourselves with.
This includes everything you have around, everything you see around you, and I mean EVERY THING, comes from the earth (unless you're one of those very few people who have a piece of asteroid from space in your weird collection).
Biotic factors that are making a large impact on our biology are: chemicals - in food, in air, in water, in buildings, in the clothing we wear, the drugs (medical, social & environmental) we intake.
Psychological change to humans are happening much faster. People are quick to adapt mentally.
At the moment we are experiencing a massive moving away from the restrictive out of date millitary-like religion and political system, that has ruled and oppressed society for so long.
This moving away from conservative religion is a healthy sign of humanity's adaptiveness, mentally speaking.
Today we see old world religions being replaced by a variety of new modern philosophies and other cultural ways of living.
-end of Introduction-
Modern man ? You thought you were modern didn't you ? Wha ha ha ha,
surprise surprise... you ain't seen nothing yet !
Humans are changing, but we are so busy surviving, working, having fun,
sulking, buying..whatever it is we do, that we rarely take a moment to
stand back, come to a halt and think about where we've been, where we are
now, and where we are going.
Indulge me a moment and picture this in your mind, Planet earth
rotating, ..zoom out, see the earth as if you are standing on the moon..
see how beautiful and big earth looks from the moon ? Now zoom out even
more...zoom out further and further away..can you see how small the moon
is compared to the earth ? ... zoom out.. out of our solar system.. all
you see now is a star speckled blackdrop. (- hope you enjoyed the
visualisation, and thank you)
Compared to the vastness of the universe, I would have problems
seeing your speck with the strongest micro or telescope ever built. You
are a nothing in the vastness of the cosmos, an organism that lives for a
mere moment and then dies, the matter/stuff you were born of recycled back
to the earth where it came from.
Now that you have some perspective, you may begin to realise the
fantastic scope of life, and you may realise the futility of life, how
absurd it all is, and that wasting your moment of life in unhappiness,
regret, greed, war and hatred has been plainly put.. stupid of you.. now
stop being an idiot and listen up.
Modern man
Modern man is man without the mental shackles of the wannebe
god-complex, modern man is man the cyborg, man and machine, man the god.
The change from the industrial revolution to the electronic revolution
happened very quickly.
This computer age, internet, cyberspace is only the birth of the
electronic revolution.
Humanity is rushing into the wonder world of micro electronic circuits
nano-technology, genetic engineering...shortly the creation of enormous
things from the minute/micro/small thing.
Enters the hive society
I see a clear pattern emerging, which is, we are doing more and more
amazing things in smaller and smaller ways.
This indicates a pattern that humanity will follow for numerous years
to come.
The birth of the hive society is at hand.
A society of humans that will live and adapt on a planet shrinking in
earthspace as populations grow and resources are depleted.
Actual earthground is fast becoming too expensive which means more and
more people will never own a home on ground, but live in apartments. Those
families that do own homes and large estates on ground will become a
minority eletist few in the near future.
The vast spaces of land that has not been populated yet, are vast
spaces of desert or semi-desert, where crops cannot be grown, farming of
livestock cannot be maintained due to various reasons, of which
waterscarcity is the major reason.
Change in the biosphere
As the earth warms and weather patterns change, some geographical areas
that are currently fertile may become desertlike and some deserts may
become fertile land, balancing or unbalancing the status quo regarding
livable areas, but our scientific predictions regarding this is not very
clear, as the climatic patterns are subject to many factors.
The Hive Society is underway. Welcome to the Beginning. - end of
article The Hive Society
In the beginning we thought computers would save us time and set us
free to pursue our hobbies, but even though using a computer to do certain
tasks does save time, most of us are using our computers not just to work
for us, but as a gateway to a world of entertainment and pleasure.
you have to make a decision about the way you want to use your
computer
you can idle along..just using it to do basic things or you can use it
to increase your general knowledge and skills
suggestion
do your best to know as much as possible about your computer and
technology in general
why should you do this ?
simply because computers are the future, this is just the beginning of
a whole new way of life for the human race, computers are gradually
becoming an extension of the human, in body and in mind
each of us, are able to sort and organise our thoughts and memories, by
using our computers, in such a way that we can access our own information
much more readily than we could in the past, when the use of handwritten
diaries was the only way we catalogued our thoughts and facts.
what makes it even more exciting is that we, as individuals, NOW have
incredible computer-tools to our availability to present ourselves to the
outside world, easily crossing the geographical, cultural, political and
social barriers that in the previous century prevented the true
pollination and intergration of the global society.
you have the power
as the end of the industrial revolution hits us with the backlash of
global economic change and regression, an exciting new era is born, the
birth of the electronic revolution ! you now for the first time have the
power from the comfort of your home to occupy, manupilate and control
space in which you are the creator..YES.. I am talking about cyberspace !
electronic technology is a great new frontier, it is changing us, all
of us, the very way humanity thinks, live, and work.
suggestion
use and upgrade your computer listen to what other people online are saying computers are great fun -you have nothing to be scared of..GO FOR IT !!
-end of article
The Hive Society by Heksie
Gertenbach
Enters modern man
The Hive Society Article - Population Chart
The Subcultures
that are coming into existence because of technology will not unite
humanity, instead we are about to experience bigger and bigger gaps
between generations, creating a society, I refer to as The Hive
Society.
another Article by
slippyzip-cpt
What do you want to do with your computer ?
things that seemed
impossible a few years ago, are now taken for granted, just imagine what
lies ahead !
try out new software,
try new
operating systems,
try programming tools and languages,
play with
graphics and sounds
get involved, create
your own website
contribute to newsgroups
chat to people on chat
networks
Last Edit
17 October 2004 21:02
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Tools She stopped for a moment panting. She rested, refreshed her log,
catalogued the random bytes that had joined her since her last rest,
dedicated most of them and kept one, as she always did.
Scanning the matrix, she calculated the approach of the snifferbots,
mapped the rnumber, adjusted her buffer.
" I like running anyway... .. ... ", her whisper echoed down the path,
bouncing back at her, she verified her route, running swiftly, the stray
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skinparty- May:23:2086: 04H15 Language:engspk
I
hadn't been outta the pod for 6 weeks and even though I was a bit scared,
I took off my vskin and got dressed in a black jumper, for my scalp
I sprayed some orange instahair, sort of in a cone shape and put ma
link in my leftear. So I spoke the door, and as it shimmered open I had
this feeling in my head of falling down a route, I stepped onto the
passagebelt, address ready and I was on my way.
The belt I was on, was empty and I had to change lanes only 4 times, on the 3rd junction I saw another bod, we both looked away quickly. I arrived at the lobby for the party, there were 5 other bods there, they looked my way and we greeted. I knew two of them from ma sector, the others were from Gauteng, Durban and one from New York. The bod from New York had it's reader set to no info, but I could see she was a girl, her tits jutted out of her wrap like moons. I was intrigued by her straight away, couldn't take my eyes of those tits.
The lobbybot came round and I had two jammers sharp to ease myself. This was gonna be a good party. Another few bods arrived in the lobby, and when the count was 11, the lobby shifted and we were in the party.
The room was enormous, calculated at 180m², the vr-effects were buzzling dashing and I felt more at home straight away. The V3J was playing a fast upbeat track by The Bitmap Meanies... a track I could relate to. The bods in the room checked in at 39 on my first count.
I did the inputshuffle over to the area where miss bod new york tits was and requestskinned her, she accepted, we danced the robotshake and it just sort of became the outputshuffle... jeeez, I exploded within simutes and we panted clutching for a while ! It felt GOOD... wha ha ha ha ha ha:-)))
After that we shimmied and shammied, we talked, we touched, we were so high from the voltage9 in the jammers, we travelled alternative space and beyond, we screamed and created a galaxy, we had a great moment when we did the spiderhand, and found that both of us could top topspeed.
I came down hard and just had to get back to my pod, Id' been at the party for two hours allready ! No wonder I was withdrawling.
-log out. to be continued - bck 2wrk l°°l
addicts do it on the keyboard
Tips for Punks
/> dim your monitor settings, for less glare
/> focus your eyes away from the screen at regular intervals
/> shift your sitting position
/> do not slouch your shoulders, prevent this by supporting your elbows and arms on your desk
/> wiggle your toes and legs for improved blood circulation
/> stretch your arms up above your head and breathe in deep
/> look sideways to and fro,, every now and then
/> increase your screen font size
/> severe eyestrain can be relieved by placing the palms of your hands over your closed eyes, gently exert pressure on your eyes and roll your eyes around in their socket also called an eye massage
/> your keyboard should be at a comfortable distance, enough distance to support elbows and arms, with wrists poised at a low and gently angle over keyboard
/> programmers take note.. you need decent lighting on your desk when working, use daylight globes
don't become blind hunchbacks people
take care punks
