turnstyle wrote:
quoted 46 lines HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod
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>>> HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod
>>> against my hearing you, I could see
>>> your lips move.
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>> considering that HAL means IBM when u shift the letters +1 in the
>> alphabet it gets superbely cryptic today here...
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> I can't help but thinking we are all getting sucked into some kind
> of trap.
> I am very much looking forward to a holiday away from technology
> shortly.
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> I just keep thinking how much would we loose, if the power was
> turned off.
> If the machine turns on us and we have to unplug it.
>
> I am packing up my room to go away, looking through all my paper notes
> and enjoying them immensely. However while my paper and books fills
> three boxes .. my trusty laptop now holds the paper, cd, vinyl
> equivalent
> of 15 boxes ..
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> More to the point I have collections of music, writing that only
> exist in digital
> form. (I hate printing on paper now)
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> I choose not to live in fear. But I keep feeling like I'm in some
> Sci Fi book
> where the astronauts are wondering through empty city wondering where
> all the aliens have gone ..
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> I've sold my soul to a digital future .. . gorging myself in
> potential of circuits
> Dreaming in the ether of million shiny magic things.
>
> Where is my backup .. ?
>
> At least I still own a pencil. Anyone know how to make paper ?
>
> Anyway, going to Burma where I will listen AM radio and ride a
> bicycle.
:) i´d like to answer on this one cause i know exactly what you are
saying but I am working like a ant
just short:
it IS a trap... but it DOESn´t start with electricity. it starts with
the paper too... actually
its this fucking transition time humans are going through.. from the
unconscious animal soul
to the schizophrene split-soul lifestyle we define around our ego (the
technology is just one
representation of this alienation).. in 1000 years we might possible
laugh about this weird
times... and the we will surely have human interfaces that integrate
with the human world
and don´t work like shitty MOUSE or SCREEN prothesises..
I love the possibilities computers give us. BUT: itz just this quadruple
abstraction from hand-motion to mouse-manipulation to mouse-screen to
3D-fake-software-interface
which is really horsepucky..
this bone our ancestor threw in the air.. that is technology. but you
know it
personally. I really worry a lot about archivin to MP3. itz just not
good enough
and we gonna suffer the loss in a few years.
no time now.. hope i find that mail again and the time to answer it later..
have much fun in burma...
robert
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