Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0201202311310.29528-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:11:41 -0500 (EST)
- enormous organisms, ephemeral, copper-wire, fiber-optic, satellites: antennas all the organisms are invisible but they respond to the coherency of network communications they sense intelligence running through the wires, they are themselves intelligent, they are among us what to do, they think, what to do, what to do they bumble, banging into packets and datagrams, they don't understand digital protocols and programs it's as if they're amputated, as if they're blinded, in the middle of human artifacts, human designs they're sentient, they can't read the codes, they have so much to tell us, they're silenced by zeros and ones they don't understand the vast landscape of binaries, they have no feeling for addresses, they murmur softly to one another their understanding is beyond our comprehension, their knowledge unsurpassed, our coding is our own, their coding is their own the wires are humming, as if carrying sensibility multiplexing beyond our wildest imaginations organisms of such intelligent, bridge the great divide, please, we beg you, come to us come to us _