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images.google.com is fun.
Paul Ford has an essay on what happened in Genoa (and what is happening all over the world) called I must not think bad thoughts. Word.
Some far out discussion on the FoRK mailing list about post humanity, and the possiblity that this world is just an elaborate simulation. This went back and forth a few times between people, and then someone offered the predictable "what, are you guys on drugs?" response to all the wild speculation. This lame joke (put down?) was met immediately with the obvious Matrix comeback of:
> Did you guys forget to take your meds again?Which is O.K., as far as comebacks to lame comments go, but then someone else chimed in with this one:
I forget. Red or blue?
> Did you guys forget to take your meds again?Now that's a good comeback! It's like a whole sci-fi story in one sentence.
Very possibly. And then as a result, we were placed in this simulation to "spin back up" to full posthumanity as our medications get slowly reintroduced!
Clueless LA Times article with some funny quotes: "The problem is that [the internet] was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive...."