| From: | dbuehrer@******.carl.org dbuehrer@******.carl.org |
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| Subject: | The Crash of '29 |
| Date: | Mon, 08 May 2000 08:03:44 -0600 |
>What really happened in '29?
My personal theory is that the internet became spontaneously sentient to a
certain degree and the destruction of information wasn't intentional, but
simply a product of this new being evolving. File systems/OS's/and
internet pathways were redirected in much the same way that a baby's brain
"wires" itself as the baby adapts to it's environment.
And in much the same way that the media today is calling the I-Love-You
program a virus, when it fact it is a trojon horse, the media of '29 was
just as clueless and identified the cause of the crash of '29 as a virus
and it stuck. Those in the know didn't feel there was a need to terrify
the world with the truth, and let the media perpetuate the story that it
was a virus.
The matrix is now designed in such a way to prevent this from happening
again, which is why you need password access just to switch from one LTG to
another, and IC is everywhere. They aren't security checkpoints, but
information bottlenecks. They have in fact reduced the chances of the
matrix spontaneously transforming into a neural net.
As for the permanent loss of information, I think it was a conspiracy
between the then young megacorps to "destroy" information and technology to
make a buck. With the way the technology curve was advancing mankind was
heading towards becoming a utopian society. And profit doesn't exist in a
utopian society (or the megacorps feared that they would lose their power
in a utopian society). They could also have justified it by saying that
they didn't feel that mankind was ready for utopia.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
To Life,
-Graht
http://www.users.uswest.net/~abaker3
--
"Warm nights, good food, kindred spirits....great life!"
