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Sunday Brains Are Not in the Menu
Feb. 13th, 2005 01:21 pmIt really blows my mind that I come here, write words, and have people from around the world read it and comment on it. Even the most idiotic sentence gets a reply. MIND BLOWING! I don't think a Japanese game developer could have thought up something better.
People say Livejournal's days are counted, that something bigger & better will come along, that we'll eventually abandomn our LJ homes and emigrate to fresh pastures. I beg to differ. We will continue to stay here, continue to write about our unremarkable lives until the day we die. Our children and grandchildren will join too. Technology will allow us (or them) to blend videos and music to our words. Reading someone's journal will become an exercise in patience as we see amateur productions flash by, words fade in & out.
Then, when we are very old, science will make a breakthrough: although our bodies will die, our brains will be saved and connected to the Internet (the internet will possibly have a new name, which I'm not creative enough right now to come up with.) So, even in death, we'll be able to update our Livejournals, start Flamewars, and bicker about inanities!
You might be asking yourself: "what will these bodyless brains talk about in Livejournal if they don't have a life anymore?" Well, our brains will still be able to live through the experiences of others. If there's an art exhibition, we can ask our grandchild to go along with a camera and see the show through the lens. Movies will have their open nights on Leicester Square, but also on the internet, allowing the Brains to experience the latest Hollywood Blockbuster - then talk about it in their journals for hours. The Brains will also serve as memory, chattering away about life as it was when they were alive, the fashions that came and went, the world events, the music (that they can also access, make endless mixes and download into unsuspecting Ipods). Brains will always be there, peaking through the cameras of journalists, when wars break out and peace treaties are signed.
Brains will see the seasons come and go through the endless CCTVs planted across the world. Brains will do jury duty, will give statements to the police if they witness a crime. Brains will fall in love and have cybersex. Brains will be there when humans finally settle in some other planet. Brains will be controversial and boring. Some people will fight for the rights of Brains to die. Others will see Brains as necessary historical beings that must be preserved and nurtured.
Remains to be seen if there's space for everyone to become an internet Brain. (Why am I using capitals for brains? I'd hate to be called a Brain.)
People say Livejournal's days are counted, that something bigger & better will come along, that we'll eventually abandomn our LJ homes and emigrate to fresh pastures. I beg to differ. We will continue to stay here, continue to write about our unremarkable lives until the day we die. Our children and grandchildren will join too. Technology will allow us (or them) to blend videos and music to our words. Reading someone's journal will become an exercise in patience as we see amateur productions flash by, words fade in & out.
Then, when we are very old, science will make a breakthrough: although our bodies will die, our brains will be saved and connected to the Internet (the internet will possibly have a new name, which I'm not creative enough right now to come up with.) So, even in death, we'll be able to update our Livejournals, start Flamewars, and bicker about inanities!
You might be asking yourself: "what will these bodyless brains talk about in Livejournal if they don't have a life anymore?" Well, our brains will still be able to live through the experiences of others. If there's an art exhibition, we can ask our grandchild to go along with a camera and see the show through the lens. Movies will have their open nights on Leicester Square, but also on the internet, allowing the Brains to experience the latest Hollywood Blockbuster - then talk about it in their journals for hours. The Brains will also serve as memory, chattering away about life as it was when they were alive, the fashions that came and went, the world events, the music (that they can also access, make endless mixes and download into unsuspecting Ipods). Brains will always be there, peaking through the cameras of journalists, when wars break out and peace treaties are signed.
Brains will see the seasons come and go through the endless CCTVs planted across the world. Brains will do jury duty, will give statements to the police if they witness a crime. Brains will fall in love and have cybersex. Brains will be there when humans finally settle in some other planet. Brains will be controversial and boring. Some people will fight for the rights of Brains to die. Others will see Brains as necessary historical beings that must be preserved and nurtured.
Remains to be seen if there's space for everyone to become an internet Brain. (Why am I using capitals for brains? I'd hate to be called a Brain.)
