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Space Gopher 2000 |
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July 05th, 2018 |
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What if quantum entaglement and spooky action at a distance allow |
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for us to create extremely long range connections, but with very |
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low bandwidth. "Why would that be the case?" you might ask. |
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Frankly, I have no idea. If you don't think about the details too |
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much it seems like something you could gloss over in a story, |
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though. |
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I want to explore that idea in a short story as a vehicle to |
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reintroduce gopher as the web of the space-future. No nonsense, |
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text driven communication across vast spaces would make for an |
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incredible aesthetic and a great reason to draw some attention |
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back to port 70. |
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I think of films like Alien and their use of text for |
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communication and it makes sense to me. Local running AIs and |
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super-powerful UI crap is neat, but for anything at a distance we |
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fall back on the age-old safety of text. If you imagine a universe |
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populated by ships launched and traveling at relativistic speeds, |
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we quickly encounter vast distances in relative time, not only |
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space. These time gaps are a bigger threat to communication than |
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distance. We cannot innovate because it leaves behind all those |
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that have gone out before. We cannot shift paradigms. We must |
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speak to a common level. |
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Isn't that a cool thought? I want to read stuff in that universe. |
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I want gopher featured prominantly. I guess I should start working |
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on it at some point. |
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Do any of you have any ideas to pile on top? I don't have a story |
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here at all, just setting, so I could use all the help I can get. |
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Or, I guess if one of you is feeling the creative juices flowing, |
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take it and run. I want to read it more than I want to write it. |
