Sublime

information parity.

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.

One of the first humans to release such creatures into the datasphere ocean was named Tom Ray

Like physical events, with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.

him in a different machine – cut him and

His farewell to a species turning from animal into data.

Within our minds, each of us will be transformed from an oral culture into a literate one.

Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.

On Old Earth, it had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long. As the Web expanded, if a species attempted serious competition with humanity’s intellect, that species would be extinct before the first farcaster opened in-system.