Bleeding Edge too dull for terrorists

[Monte Davis]

That's wonderful, John. Now I'm back-projecting it onto Maxine, wandering
the tunnels of the Montauk Project. Thank you!

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:09 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> This morning's internet traffic and weather report was about the
> obsolete 90s virtual realm Active Worlds. Nobody has been on there for
> a long time but someone livestreaming their visit to the abandoned
> realm (because it's abandoned - basically a haunted house tour of the
> web) ran across a bot that turned out to be much more. As in, a person
> who has been hanging around in an empty virtual world for a decade or
> longer. Or is something else.
>
> There's more to the story but that idea of the conscientious online
> castaway is such a sweet one. And Deep Archer is totally based on
> worlds such as this, and I can only imagine what the peeps who ran
> into him back in the day read in his dialogue box.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgATG6PUA0
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A---And....P's half-prophetic role in effect in BE; the theme, as you've
> > noted if I don't distort, of a new 'pure' space which really isn't or
> won't
> > stay that way if it is......
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> There you go again, spoiling a perfectly good techno-mythology with dull
> >> facts. As Pynchon knew perfectly well while he was writing BE, we
> *need* the
> >> dark Web to be full of apocalyptic schemes and secrets, just like Pirate
> >> needed his sleepy sweaty Middle Eastern garrison to be the origin of the
> >> next Mahdi.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/03/dark-web-too-slow-and-annoying-terrorists/127002/
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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