Web as application.

The internet browser has been changed into an application to stream content to an individual. It’s all about the content. And so what does this do? Content, information, experiences, become a gathering place and slowly populations begin to be built. And just like when any other human existence has met they begin to grow and multiply.

And so the web will slowly retreat into groups of people to become ‘cities’ on the internet. Groups of users using paypal as banking, amazon as they’re local store, and then even more diverse as a specific car parts website. They are shared favorites that then become the standard in a category. These are your cities and suburbs by groups of liked interests rather than mere geography.

I think we can now start to plot out the tidal reach of the internet this organism that now starts to shape the lives of people.

What happens to you when you’re dead on the internet?

I had an acquaintance that I know of, peripherally, that died recently. This person was a prolific blogger, ending in July of 2008 but starting way back in 2002. 6 years worth of journaling, an online diary of a persons life. Will this blog be deleted by the site that hosts it? (a well known blogging company) Will it be relegated to be the odd Google search result? This problem is what makes the Internet Archive pretty powerful. As much as possible a living, detailed history of the internet.

Thinking long term, 50 maybe 100 years what that information would b worth, how much it would contain. 100 years of records of behavior. Further, 1000 years of human interaction detailed on the internet. Emails, forum posts, audio, video, artwork from every form of man. What would we give to have as complete information of 1000 years in the past? A vast and complete archive of the internet and it’s traffic I think is important.

Funded in perpetuity, kept as public vault a record of humanity. That would provide countless answers to questions in the future. Knowing and understanding who we are, what we are. Which is what makes the internet such an important thing in the terms of mankind.

We’re going to see where we are as humanity the same reason that geographically remote areas have tribal groups we’ll see outliers to borrow a word. We’ll see some places where access will be restricted by religions that don’t want to corrupt they’re fundamentalist believers. Restricted by politick to keep citizens from learning anything other than the proscribed doctrine, and so we have this flow of access to the internet, this tide of humanity, pockets of civilizations not bound by geography but by shared belief, shared experiences and locales.

These will be the internets tribal groups and access to the internet is going to reshape the political and racial boundaries of peoples.

Girding ourselves for battle.

Ok. We’re going outside. outside outside. The big O. That means we shower! OK! Into the shower first take a wee bathroom break. Yes sir. Takin’ a dump. Feel lighter now, whoot.

Correct tempachura? okey doke.

outside. outside. undies on. nice and strict. clean white tea. it screams clean! outside that means we’re gonna need socks. sockseys 1 and 2.

Put on our socks. Ah, jeans soft and warm nothing better except warm kittens.

That lovely pale blue that screams comfort.

Running shoes of course, you’ll never actually see me run. but it plays to the pretension that I’m athletic. yeah me. heh, Anyway they’re comfortable.

going outside. stand up, fitment check, strap ourselves into the pants.

my robot exoskeleton of cotton. ca chinkshhhh. seals tightening. holding fast.

mirror check, only look at the face pretend everything else is in soft focus.

oh shit gotta feed the cats, common’ you rascals, little kittums runs ahead and jumps on to the clothes machines, fucking fatty black one over here strolling ahead.

still cant stand him from when I had my dog. kept swattin’ that fat paw and his head. broke the blood vessels in his ears twice had them filled with blood. fuck you fatty.

now I gotta pick his fat ass up on to the top of the machines so he can eat.

getting older, this one.

fuck you there’s your food.

ok, what was I doing. going outside yeah. something.

ok need a top. this is dangerous territory now. my thoughts on the top will send my mood north or south now. this says to the world how am I feeling right now. confident, layed back, cool, smooth, at ease. or fat.

we’re not gonna think that.

soft focus.

we feel good.

shoulders up. our raiment will keep us safe. we own our mood.

need our things, our essentials. keys first. both sets car and home.

left pocket.

wallet. our mini safe. there you are.

right pocket has been installed.

my computer. cell phone. data device. portable music storage device. this is the order i’ve begun to think of my mobile phone in.

slide it into the special smaller pocket on the right. almost exactly like an invisible utility belt, it ride my leg.

my offensive spells and potions on the right. knowledge and what meager money I have.

safety and defense on the left.

brace ourselves at the door for ejection.

coldly electric feel of the knob. twitch to the right, pull. flip it to the left hand and –

out.

1 or 2.

Time is a box we get into to destroy ourselves, to see ourselves suffer. In essence we are entities choosing to enter a box (shift time) to see what a reality would look like with different choices. We can make any choice in our lives and work to see that fulfilled. All we have to do is make that choice. 1 or 2. Do we want to be single or alone. Do we want to be a family or a society. Do we want to be society or a nation. Do we want to be a humanity working together so that no one suffers. Are we 1 or 2?

I think free will may be the proof of a gods absence. if we can choose that god doesn’t exist than he can’t exist for anyone. And what is heaven. I mean I am trying to wrap my brain around what would even be there to keep me interested in being someplace for all eternity. The only thing that could keep someone interested for an eternity is choice. Free will. So if free will is heaven and we have free will then this is heaven. No god.

Out of work.

How we define ourselves. Too young to work, looking for a job now, I am a…, in Retirement and Out of work. What then does it mean to be Out of Work in a society arranged on work. What is work? Is it effort? Is it jobs? How are you a part of our society. How then do we interact?

We are becoming our digital identities.

As we continue to use the internet for buying goods and services these companies are starting a grassroots movement to only use email to communicate. More and more companies are eliminating telephone contact with their customers. Severing the face to face or being to being meeting. These companies are becoming almost wholly virtual. The entire medium of the transaction is digital. No paper trail. Bank accounts existing only digitally. We’re losing the need to establish a 1 to 1 physical relationship to gain their trust. Where once when you wanted to make a trade or deal with another person to do something there would follow an elaborate ritual between each other gauging what we each want and what is the best mutual decision. Our greed fighting someone else’s greed causes us to come to an unspoken agreement that there’s only so much I can get and I’ll have to sacrifice something. And that sacrifice is what we do as nations. We try to gauge what we as a civilization will have to sacrifice and what we will gain. And so our laws that govern us are almost wholly the same. Laws that have been proscribed have their mirrors among many countries, we are agreeing on morality or toleration of each other. What we will and won’t allow of each other. So my need to know where this companies good or service is based physically, who is running it doesn’t matter because the laws of commerce and business are dictating our tolerance. Don’t scam me and I don’t scam you.

We are becoming more and more like our email addresses. We are becoming our digital identities.

Graphic design and graffiti a new communication.

Doing custom letters or type treatments is that they are the basis of language and custom letters is the forefront of communication and the forefront of type. Why does a D have to look specifically D like? and how far can you push that type of thought I mean isn’t that really the basis for grafitti? Rather than the mundane thought of tagging. But the core of graffiti is type exploration and someone choosing a name to explore that type with.

Graphic design takes the thoughts and ideas from one person and using our skills to say here look at this i’ve used language and imagery to capture your idea. and i did it in this way and so we’re not really doing it to sell cans of tomatoes but to express ourselves in this way to be noticed.

Technology will ultimately unite mankind.

Despite any naysayers technology with which we will share information about ourselves to people all over the world. I can find and meet people online, share videos, music, photos of our lives. What does this do? It bonds us with other people who are different yet live much the same lives. The more intertwined our lives with other peoples the more it binds us. There will always be a fluxion of the evolution of humanity.

Copyright versus software piracy.

Does someone have the right to complain about a copyright violation of artwork that was created with stolen software or tools?

Do they actually even own the artwork? Could (insert software company) make a case for claiming ownership? I can’t go out and steal a car, spray it with graffiti and now claim ownership of the car as my artwork. People would think I was a loon. Why is software different if at all?

Let’s say someone created an image in Manga Studio and prosecuted a band for stealing their artwork. During the court case the artist presents his original file as proof he created it but the defense asks to see his proof of ownership of Manga Studio.

Chilled clouds of condensation…

Chilled clouds of condensation cling about our cherubic countenance of Christmas - caroling, chimes and children.