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JackSpratts · 10-03-04, 04:21 PM

The truly mind boggling aspect of this, as you’ve pointed out, is the sheer accelerating madness of the process. Things have been fairly exciting and fun up until now as we’ve harnessed the power of the grid to do things we’ve normally done for ourselves but were too lazy to do seriously or we’ve used it to do things we’ve always wanted to do but really couldn’t (like retrieving every extant song for instance). Amazing feats of power from our perspective of course but mere trifles for coming generations. From now on real changes are in store for us as the grid mutates increasingly unconventionally and, like evolution, starts doing things no one ever imagined. This is when it gets interesting, and more than a little awe-inspiring.

There is only one chance in life to exist "before something." Before printing, before books, before TV, before medicine. We, all of us living right now, are the last to be alive "before the grid." We must bear witness to this time, so those coming after can hear of lives lived in disconnected oneness, with the hardships and the freedoms that implies. They may not comprehend our past but we should not fail to report it, regardless of how little it resembles their present.

That’s how massive a change I foresee.

- js.

10-03-04, 04:21 PM	#2
JackSpratts Join Date: May 2001 Location: New England Posts: 10,018	The truly mind boggling aspect of this, as you’ve pointed out, is the sheer accelerating madness of the process. Things have been fairly exciting and fun up until now as we’ve harnessed the power of the grid to do things we’ve normally done for ourselves but were too lazy to do seriously or we’ve used it to do things we’ve always wanted to do but really couldn’t (like retrieving every extant song for instance). Amazing feats of power from our perspective of course but mere trifles for coming generations. From now on real changes are in store for us as the grid mutates increasingly unconventionally and, like evolution, starts doing things no one ever imagined. This is when it gets interesting, and more than a little awe-inspiring. There is only one chance in life to exist "before something." Before printing, before books, before TV, before medicine. We, all of us living right now, are the last to be alive "before the grid." We must bear witness to this time, so those coming after can hear of lives lived in disconnected oneness, with the hardships and the freedoms that implies. They may not comprehend our past but we should not fail to report it, regardless of how little it resembles their present. That’s how massive a change I foresee. - js.