johnrod
Member 2442
49 entries
93273 views

 RSS
John Rodrigues (M)
US
Immortal since Jan 14, 2010
Uplinks: 0, Generation 6
  • Affiliated
    •  /  
  • Invited
    •  /  
  • Descended
    • johnrod’s favorites
    From Wildcat
    A Cyber Soaring Humanity
    Recently commented on
    From Wildcat
    Archeodatalogy - Entwined,...
    From johnrod
    Last of the Humans
    From Gabriel Shalom
    Proper Nouns
    From Venessa
    Amplifying Intentions
    From michaelerule
    [no title]
    Now playing SpaceCollective
    Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction. Introduction
    Featuring Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, based on an idea by Kees Boeke.
    From johnrod's personal cargo

    tech nolo


    “A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – Steinbeck



    The master sat contemplating the zero G tea ceremony, awareness on the still inner witness, seeking to clear the mind of the thoughts of technology. Then a shadow seemed to gesture from a nearby bodily reflection.

    “Sitrep,” it said in the local dialect.

    Nothing new to report was the thought. The agent of interest had befriended a human ex-boomer and was in the midst of a ploy to investigate the multiverse lockdown.

    “How close are they to solving it?”

    The area command is off-planet having outgrown the meager profit from limited unsustainable markets after energy protection lost favor and defense groups were privatized. There were some orbital skirmishes from Imp-rovers or planetary robotics, mostly to maintain the attention out there. Due to rapidity and range of effects, these were usually preemptive and not based on logic. Others, having a fraction of the budget, were far more efficient. On the ground, urban megacenters continued their rifts. The various rivalries included synthetic groups seeking to fulfill their capabilities, machines forming institutions, and, the master’s favorite, reanimates experienced by many incarnations. A tiger team had been sent to tail the operative. They were of different species tethered by a cognitive implant which, like other types of custom k-boxes, could disappear the carrier's immediate area via a standard energy source coupled to entangled switches, the only trace being an after-particle pattern. The subjects were concerned about an m2verse.

    “And we of the m2the-nth-verse. Individual instances are distractions from the infinite series. Post-humans are the biggest unknown, ever since they began redesigning their taxonomic ranks. Their intuitions and emotions give them traction. By alternately wielding technology and philosophy, universals and particulars, their range of surprise is great. They are most likely to create a new type of artifact which could affect us, though they seem to long for a legendary guide.”

    That could be provided. There had been similar metaverse applications elsewhere. Space was synonymous with spies. Species is a choice.

    The shadow had returned to normal, so the practice was resumed.

    Sun, May 23, 2010  Permanent link

      RSS for this post
    2 comments
      Promote (3)
      
      Add to favorites
    Synapses (3)
     
    Comments:


    Wildcat     Mon, May 24, 2010  Permanent link
    nice, very nice.. :-)

    please explain: They are most likely to create a new type of artifact which could affect us, though they seem to long for a legendary guide..??
    thanks
    johnrod     Mon, May 24, 2010  Permanent link
    Don't actually know; another story might be needed. This is a deeply mysterious character. There may be any number of reasons for this assumption. A few guesses: Whatever created m2verse might be the authority to fix it. We tend to pick leaders from bloodlines that have legacies. Pre-web institutions tended to be hierarchical, e.g. academic or government. There might have been previous dabbling from adherents to systems of apprenticeship, e.g. a guild. This character has some knowledge of our cultural myths about access to other worlds and ways of knowing, e.g. shamanism to pick one at random. Somebody fed them this fact to constrain the choice of delegate. This could have been setup a priori by their own representative as the easiest means of control.. This could be due to translation, also for another phrase, m-2-to-the-nth. There might actually be a great post-human guide in our future. Might also reanimate Steinbeck. Where's Watch? Thanks.
     
          Cancel