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There's a pretty rad article at Wired about the history of the Internet and its forthcoming role as the Machine: a learning database of collective human knowledge and memory. The author seems to think that this is where true AI will emerge; from the system that holds our lives and histories in ever-increasing capacities and will link synapse to synapse in an eternal effort to find Meaning. It's a little grandiose at times and raises some horrific concerns (SKYNET, anybody?) but the piece is definitely worth checking out, if only to laugh about how cluelessly media pundits reacted to the Internet at its earliest conception. Here - I'll even link the article for ya.

I often wonder about bloggers whose journals feature page upon page of updates that simply send readers off to another part of the Internet to read corporate media stories about giant bio-engineered tomatoes or Harry Potter or whatever. It seems a little redundant, to me, to become a cataloguing system of What's Interesting - I mean, at least offer a few words of your own to validate your participation in this nebulous Machine we're building. ":):)Hahaha omg check this out!! LOL!" does NOT count, by the way. I feel that The Machine will, one day, erroneously conclude that colons and parentheses

::: + ))) = :) :) :)

are surefire signs of human retardation and distribute horrific digital punishments accordingly. To be safe I will no longer use punctuation of any kind

Yeah I'm takin it easy today and nerding out with a book on my sheetless bed

This no punctuation thing already sucks fuck you The Machine I will gorge on hyphens and I will use ellipses incorrectly

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Chuck Palahniuk s Haunted has me by the balls... ... ... ... ...

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