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Sometimes it feels like morphogenesis has already begun, leaving behind
the hopeless thrashing of worn ideologies by agents of corrupt humanity.
In this dark age of technology, the 21st Century still promises a future
of changing social priorities, a future where humanity has the time and
intent to seek that which powers the inner universe. The very nature of
hope rests on our continued search for a network between Inner and Outer
worlds. In a future where scientists can record an entire personality,
keeping a 'safe recent backup' may assume life threatening proportions.
Is this what happens to reincarnation? 2010. Wearing specially tinted
glasses which mate electronically with a subcutaneously implanted wafer
in your skull, you sink into the stim chair and experience the giant
Tsunami breaking - or maybe you prefer active volcanoes? OK, it's still
only 2004, but if you've read me before you'll know that in the year
2004 we eat, wear and play with our machines. Consider this; anyone with
a flamethrower back in Julius Caesar's era would have been considered
more than human. Don't get confused, in a normal day you probably won't
be asked to travel faster than light, but a practical application might
be in the field of faster-than-light (FTL) computers which anticipate
the answers to questions you haven't yet asked. Though not everyone
agrees on the implications of the NEC experiment. Aephraim Steinberg, a
physicist at the University of Toronto, said the light particles coming
out of the cesium chamber may not have been the same ones that entered,
so he questions whether the speed of light was broken. "Still, the work
is important", he said: "The interesting thing is how did they manage to
produce light that looks exactly like something that didn't get there
yet?''

Welcome to the future, now beam me up Aephraim!

Schwann Cybershaman
copyright ALL MEDIA 2004