working offline, on my oscillating electrons, excited by far-travelling photons, sitting with a fan, and a baby boi, and a couple thoughts on my mind.
1. world seeding.
its freq thought, by this and that lunatic, that life may have come from sirius, or been seeded from space, or some variant thereon. always seemed about as unlikely, really, as life having spontaneously self-created.
but then it occured to me - we're fully capable, right here and now, of seeding other planets with exotic bacteria or what have you. its imaginable that end-times humanity, in the wisdom of their loss, decides to pack some cylinders full of extremeophile bacteria and launch them at everything in sight, in the hope of life not making the same mistakes we have.
which puts a somewhat different spin on it.
so instead of a galactic super-civilization of enlightened elder races working to spread life across the cosmos, perhaps its just the same set of self-destructive plasmids (or what have you), eating up one world after another.
yeah, well. fuck.
2. the cia overmind
considered abstractly, is it more likely that the post-war world more or less plateaued (sp?) in innovativeness and capacity for invention, or that the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX forestalls the dispersal of any hegemony-threatening creation?
just on the surface of it, i'd lean heavily toward the latter.
which, in the end, may be for the best. humanity trudges along, slowly pupating into this vaguely hive-mind-ish global community, trying to figure out the solutions to it's blunders, which are all secretly waiting in the wings, to save the day, while (the cia hopes) also preserviing the good ol boy power structure at the same time.
yeah, all bad luck to you, cia, there, trying to game the singularity, heh heh, ha ha, stupid powergrubbers. maybe thats what all those fort dix computers are for, instead of listening to us talking about our drug habits.
3. thoughts on social networking
my mom asks, whats the freakng point, it's like email but with a big fat intermediary - so i have to explain it to her, which means i have to think.
3.1 it helps you keep track vaguely of lots of people, making it efficient and (+/-) worthwhile to keep track of old classmates and acquaintances with whom otherwise you'd entirely lose track.
3.2 it provides conversation starters, interaction aids and shared amusement, a bit like a mediated youtube. see: superpoke. see freakin facebook, if you're not there yet.
3.2.2 it's sorta like an online cocktail party. without the awkwardness, or the alcohol to reduce the awkwardness.
3.3 it occasionally helps you find old friends. which is usually depressingly banal, and occasionally freaking spectactular. or at least answers that question, what happened to x?
yar, yay for electron flo. keepin it fresh.
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