I was right.
I was right.
I was right.
I – am – going to gloat.
So here is me gloating:
I told you the Nation State didn’t have a chance. I told you we’d be a bunch of roaming nomads.
In 1997.
I was right. – Wells Fargo is about to go under, Yahoo has been hacked releasing the data of 500,000,000 – probably by a Chinese hacker with acne.
Of course. They want you to believe it was the Ruskies.
HA.
It’s 2016.
There have been 34 Terror Attacks globally, in the last year alone.
18 U.S. mass Shootings. The 3rd world is in flames.
Baltimore.
Baltimore.
Baltimore.
The computer quells the literate impulse of The Renaissance, forever to be replaced with non-visual-by-means of the Eye, Eternal: NOW.
The message of the cursor is NOWness.
Like the trigger of a revolver that feels so much better to squeeze… Like the screen, incomplete by the nature of the space between its pixels, bringing – ‘Participation.’ – The gun, the rifle, incomplete without its pilot.
Not the complete, book.
The pen, the pencil, its paper and margins – the permanent, such a disappointment nowadays…
The computer is ephemeral, but also conditions the boundless impulse.
Ya remember what the 19th century’s end felt like? It’s because we accepted anything was possible and the state of technology moved so quickly that we felt boundless. Like floating in space, but moving toward something …wonderful.
Massive.
The Desktop is boundless. The Desk, the page… has edges and sequence.
Not A-synchronous.
Browsers are heterogenous option systems.
The gravity defying buildings of today could never be built without computers.
Transactions are parsed into packet-data. And so our brains interpret how it processes information, as decentralized into soundbites and whole new boundaries emerge on the face of the Earth.
The Net has rendered us into Earthlings. Never Citizens. Again.
Nations cannot rule over many lives under the weight of (n)etworks.
Industrialism is officially over.
Networks?
Decentralized. Balkanized.
We are about to take the mirror of Capitalism, and shatter it into a billion pieces.
Look down at the ground, and what?
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T-1000.