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