What is going to be the future of connectivity? What is the Brave New World of the Internet going to be?
Is it going to be a system of services linked together through one centralized (but benevolent) agency? Need a service? Want to sell a service? Check into the Agency, the Agency will take care of you. Oh, by the way, you need to add this to your machine. And you need to give us this information.
And you need to understand that we know what’s best for you…and you have no choice, anyway, do you?
Or is it going to be a brave new world of content publishing and subscription?
You sitting at home passively on your machine hooked up as a dying man is hooked up to a heart machine, each beat a pulse from the great wire, delivering you all the information fit to print, at least fit enough to survive the filters.
You sit and add your own beat, with perhaps an accompaniment of a pat on the head, job well done. Why seek? Why search?
Now, just put that finger on that mouse and click those checkboxes and yes, we’ll take care of you because we know what’s best for you…and you have no choice, anyway, do you?
Put your mouth to the nipple and prepare to be fed.
A brave new world.
Connecting to the void you send tendrils out seeking others of like mind, or not, occasionally bumping into something new or unexpected in your search.
Two paths open for every path that closes, and the only locked door you find is standing alone with no walls around it. You laugh into the void as you walk past the door, continuing on your journey of discovery.