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Rico Suave on 2009-06-29
Twitter / Home on 2009-06-24
Brickfish Social Media: Rico Suave on 2009-06-19
part2.pdf (application/pdf Object) on 2008-02-12
William Gibson: Burning Chrome on 2008-02-12
- They decide; I shoot.
- ou never actually saw it take off,
  
  but it flew away to Dialta Downes's never-never land,
  
  true home of a generation of completely uninhibited
  
  technophiles. She was talking about those odds and
  
  ends of "futuristic" Thirties and Forties architecture
  
  you pass daily in American cities without noticing; the
  
  movie marquees ribbed to radiate some mysterious en-
  
  ergy, the dime stores faced with fluted aluminum, the
  
  chrome-tube chairs gathering dust in the lobbies of tran-
  
  sient hotels. She saw these things as segments of a
  
  dreamworld, abandoned in the uncaring present; she
  
  wanted me to photograph them for her.
- 11 more annotations...
- - "Think of it," Dialta Downes had said, "as a kind
    
    of alternate America: a 1980 that never happened. An
    
    architecture of broken dreams."
  - Now that is the real thing, the straight goods
    
    from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a
    
    witch. There's just no place for her to function in this
    
    society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been
    
    brought up on `The Bionic Man' and all those `Star
    
    Trek' reruns.
  - They're semiotic phan-
    
    toms, bits of deep cultural imagery that have split off
    
    and taken on a life of their own
  - They were the children of Dialta Downes's `80-
    
    that-wasn't; they were Heirs to the Dream. They were
    
    white, blond, and they probably had blue eyes. They
    
    were American. Dialta had said that the Future had
    
    come to America first, but had finally passed it by. But
    
    not here, in the heart of the Dream. Here, we'd gone on
    
    and on, in a dream logic that knew nothing of pollution,
    
    the finite bounds of fossil fuel, or foreign wars it was
    
    possible to lose. They were smug, happy, and utterly
    
    content with themselves and their world. And in the
    
    Dream, it was their world.
  - There were power droughts; sudden failures of the
    
    delta-inducer brought painfully abrupt returns to con-
    
    sciousness.
  - Thinking: We're each other's fragments, and was it
    
    always this way? That instant of a European trip,
    
    deserted in the gray sea of wiped tape is she closer
    
    now, or more real, for his having been there?
  - The French call it le metro, the subway, and the
    
    Russians call it the river, but subway won't carry the
    
    distance, and river, for Americans, can't carry quite the
    
    same loneliness. Call it the Tovyevski Anomaly Coor-
    
    dinates if you don't mind bringing Olga into it. Olga
    
    Tovyevski, Our Lady of Singularities, Patron Saint of
    
    the Highway.
  - The promise of pain. It's there each time. You know
    
    what will happen, but you don't know when, or exactly
    
    how. You try to hold on to them; you rock them in the
    
    dark. But if you brace for the pain, you can't function.
    
    That poem Hiro quotes, Teach us to care and not to
    
    care.
  - "Please, you're
    
    dead. Forgive us, we came to try to help, Hiro and I.
    
    Understand? He knows you, see, Hiro, he's here in my
    
    head. He's read your dossier, your sexual profile, your
    
    favorite colors; he knows your childhood fears, first
    
    lover, name of a teacher you liked. And I've got just the
    
    right pheromOne5~ and I'm a walking arsenal of drugs,
    
    something here you're bound to like. And we can lie,
    
    Hiro and I; we're ace liars. Please. You've got to see.
    
    Perfect strangers, but Hiro and I, for you, we make up
    
    the perfect stranger, Leni."
  - In the trade, the legitimate trade I've never done
    
    porno we call the raw product dry dreams. Dry
    
    dreams are neural output from levels of consciousness
    
    that most people can only access in sleep. But artists, the
    
    kind I work with at the Autonomic Pilot, are able to
    
    break the surface tension, dive down deep, down and
    
    out, out into Jung's sea, and bring back well, dreams.
  - "Lotta old computer hacks spent their lives program-
    
    ming machines. And you know what? The human brain
    
    is not a goddamn bit like a machine, no way. They just
    
    don't program the same."
Magic Mirror: The Novel as a Software Development Platform on 2008-02-12
- 
  
  Unlike
  the fantasy worlds of “soft” science fiction, “hard” science fiction builds
  upon physically realistic premises to construct worlds where the “what if”
  element very nearly touches the bounds of the technically possible
- The fringed edge between the actual and the
  possible – constantly evolving in a series of non-linear inflations (McKenna,
  1975) – marks the boundary of innovation, the border between ideas and their
  realizations. In the case of computer
  software, which is itself the logical structuring of codes to produce a
  platform for the expression of ideas, the boundary between idea and realization
  becomes entirely permeable, an osmotic flow of memes (Dawkins, 1990), which,
  insofar as they can infect the hacker mind, engender the design of new software
  systems.
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- - The
    roots of the modern movement of “cyberpunk” fiction can be traced back to the
    enormously influential writer John Brunner.
    In a series of dazzling novels written throughout the 1970’s, Brunner
    redefined the field of science fiction, and clearing the way for authors like
    William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, established the dystopian world view as the weltanschauung
    of choice in hard science fiction.
  - The
    third text which significantly radicalized hackers before the emergence of the
    cyberpunk movement must undoubtedly be Orson Scott Card’s novel Enders’ Game
    (1982). At one level, Ender’s Game
    is the coming-of-age story of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, the biological end-product
    of a fascist government program to produce a super-warrior, capable of leading
    a human fleet into battle against a race of insect-like “buggers”, who are
    challenging humanity for the supremacy of space, even threatening humanity’s
    continued existence.
    
     
    
    An
    alternative reading of Card’s text draws from the generational power-shift
    around the new technologies of computing and simulation. Ender Wiggin represents the child raised
    within the electronic age, fully able to harness its capabilities to his own
    ends. However, without the age and
    wisdom to use his power wisely, he is deceived into fighting a war that he believes
    is entirely synthetic, constructed as part of his training in “Battle
    School”. When, after a climactic battle
    scene, Ender realizes that he has in reality committed xenocide – the
    intentional destruction of an entire species – that the Battle School is, in
    fact, an elaborate real-time control system for Earths’ fleets of warships, he
    understands that he has committed the ultimate sin, an absolute loss of
    innocence which is among the most moving moments in the entire canon of science
    fiction.
  - 
    
    Brunner,
    Vinge and Card set the stage for the cyberpunk movement – brewing in the short
    stories of writers like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling – as they identified
    the hacker community as central to the emerging electronic culture; in giving
    these hackers a vision, they also engendered the concretization of the ideas
    they expressed in their works.
  - The
    matrix is an abstract representation of the relationships between data
    systems. Legitimate programmers jack
    themselves into their employer’s sector of the matrix and find themselves
    surrounded by bright geometries representing the corporate data.
  - 
    
    Towers
    and fields of it ranged in the colorless non-space of the simulation matrix,
    the electronic consensus-hallucination that facilitates the handling and exchange
    of massive quantities of data.
  - During this period, when Neuromancer was
    published, “virtual reality” acquired a new name and suddenly prominent social
    identity as “cyberspace”. The critical
    importance of Gibson’s book was partly due to the way that it triggered a
    conceptual revolution among the scattered workers who had been doing virtual
    reality research groups for years: As task groups coalesced and dissolved, as
    the fortunes of companies and projects and laboratories rose and fell, the
    existence of Gibson’s novel and the technological and social imaginary that it
    articulated enabled the researchers in virtual reality – or, under the new dispensation,
    cyberspace – to recognize and organize themselves as a community.
    
    
  - Snow
    Crash presents a post-Modern view of
    post-Millennial electronic culture, an infosphere so polluted by competing
    economic and ideological interests that reality has become impossibly bound up
    with its virtualization in the “Metaverse”, the field of human activity in
    cyberspace. As in Neuromancer,
    the protagonist – named Hiro Protagonist – is a hacker par excellence, but in Snow
    Crash, Protagonist becomes the savior of humanity, fighting against a set
    of ideas/ viruses/software known as Snow Crash, which transform the innate
    linguistic abilities of human beings into a prelapsarian Babel of glossalia. The confusion of codes (drug, virus,
    religion) produces an equivalence between them, and Protagonist becomes the one
    person grasps the significance of this equivalence, using this knowledge to
    create a cultural “anti-virus”, inoculating humanity – and in particular, his
    hacker comrades – from the vicissitudes of Snow Crash.
  - 
    
    In
    both Snow Crash and Neuromancer, the position of the hacker as
    protagonist and savior gives these texts special significance in the hacker
    communities; an act of self-identification takes place almost unconsciously
    when a hacker reads these texts; when this happens, the osmotic flow of memes
    can progress in full force, and the technological visions expressed within the texts become hyper-saturated with
    meaning. The creation of technical
    artifacts becomes an act of identification with the protagonists.
  - To
    sum up: the recent history or hard science fiction has been the defining
    influence on the direction of software systems development. The hacker community has been strongly
    shaped by science fiction texts, and this has lead to a direct, often literal
    concretization of the ideas expressed in those texts. The “grand philosophers” – which is to say, the writers –
    propose, in sweeping gestures, the shape of things to come. To the degree they are successful in
    “infecting” the hacker community with the beauty of their ideas, they can expect
    to see those ideas brought to life.
  - n
    closing, a question must be posed; is it possible to construct science fiction
    stories so infectious in their technological and ontological dimensions that entirely
    new revolutions in software can be catalyzed?
    Can the hacker community be counted upon to dutifully mobilize its
    resources to translate evocation into reality?
    Is this a repeatable sociological phenomenon, and is it
    predictable? Will we wait until it
    happens again – inadvertently – or should we play with these forces ourselves?
Online Extra: Virtual Worlds, Virtual Economies on 2008-02-12
Living in Virtual World — It Has Real Benefits on 2008-02-12
Virtual worlds: The next Facebook? - CNN.com on 2008-02-12
"Second Life," Other Virtual Worlds Reshaping Human Interaction on 2008-02-12