Tristan Miller:Thoughts about the Internet
Hold on, this is bullshit
The Internet is like another world, a virtual world in which consciousness can exist and interact with other consciousnesses.
The rules of this abstract world are quite different from the physical world, although the human brain seems to be able to process this without trouble. Internet addicts?
The Internet is virtually ungoverned, and probably ungovernable, except for the fact that it is tied to the physical world: its users and the hardware that enables its existence. These things are governable and are governed.
It is strange that people can have a 'cyber' life and a 'real' life simultaneously. Some people prioritise their 'cyber' life. Which one is more valid/'real'? Obviously one relies on energy from the physical world for survival, and thus usually on money in the real world. Yet people have jobs in virtual worlds that pay for their food in the physical one. How long is it going to be before the remuneration from these cyber jobs is in the form of energy, directly downloadable into one's metabolism? Then where does a person really exist?
Consider also the ramifications of tying the real world economy to a virtual world's economy, in the manner described above. Will currency traders buy into a reality that only exists on some servers and in people's minds?
I'll form some sort of cohesive ramble from these thoughts and more...soon Tristan Miller 06:26, 24 November 2005 (PST)
