small OLED screens connected to a rat nest of wires. LEDs transmitting morse code. scrapers loudly writing to fragmented hard disk drives. buttons connected to nowhere, unless you are in the know. voices, images, videos, avatars, signifying nothing to most. sensors and alarms. backups connected to backups connected to backups. a wire is snipped, and the avatars know. they point to the repair. goggles and scouters. haptic bracelets. nfc rings. fingerprint sensors. iris scanners. casette tapes containing recordings of hard drive noise. printers logging key events. microfiche storing executables.
it grows beyond even your control, more organic than digital. this thread is to discuss opening the technological horizons of connection. what would you do if you stopped limiting yourself and went through with it all the way? to create something useless existing only for itself and yourself, an extension of your own mind, the link can only happen through a deep relationship of creation, not learned after the fact.
https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
>The mainframe programmer then began to describe his system to his friend, saying, "The mainframe sits like an ancient Sage meditating in the midst of the Data Center. Its disk drives lie end-to- end like a great ocean of machinery. The software is as multifaceted as a diamond, and as convoluted as a primeval jungle. The programs, each unique, move through the system like a swift-flowing river. That is why I am happy where I am."