User:Tabbris

Introduction
This is an experiment. An attempt to find the perfect medium for expressing Qualia. An attempt to rewrite language to suit this new communication medium that either already does, or soon will, encompass all previous communication mediums. English is aging and ineffective. All other modern languages are aging and ineffective. It's obvious to every grandparent alive today that the Internet is already its own language. Communication is being forced into efficiency by the 160 character limit. And the things we're saying are getting more important. More vital. More dangerous. Each world leader has more power than the last. Each person born will have more power than the last, as the seas metaphorically dry and the mountains metaphorically flatten. As the world gets smaller. So communication is being forced into efficiency in an even graver sense than simply text-message cramping. Old language will fall, new language will arise. Old communication mediums will fall (and are falling), to be supplanted by ones unrecognizable to anyone who'd have lived 100... 50... 10 years ago. 100 years ago, who'd have dreamt of the Internet? 50 years ago, who'd have dreamt of the World Wide Web? 10 years ago, who'd have dreamt of Facebook? Of Twitter? Of blogging as it has become? Of wikis? ... Of Wikipedia?

It's clear as all hell to anyone and everyone that everything is changing, and fast. People are moving online and online is moving off. And computers, far divorced from their distant relatives that printed binary and listened to punched cards, are more and more reflecting the natures of their creators. Machines have never been cold, detached, or mechanical. How could they be? They're invented by humans, for humans. They're just as much a part of humanity as anything else humanity has created, if not more. And computers, and the Internet, are evolving with us. To be more like us. To interface better with us. There's no need to speculate on cybernetic implants and other Sci-Fi stereotypes. Our fingers rest on a keyboard and mouse and our eyes are a foot away from a screen. We'll merge as much as we can while we're still uncomfortable with merging any more literally. And that's just fine.

But we've got to account for this. Because humans aren't ready, and computers aren't ready. Society's not ready to wear blinking, beeping hats. Computers aren't ready to read our neural network and directly transmit the data to other blinking, beeping hats. The world isn't ready for engineered telepathy, and that's meant in both senses of the word unreadiness. Though when we are at that point, such a bit- and eye-wasteful clarification of meaning will be rendered moot. And that's really the goal. That's really the necessity.

So let's start this experiment. Let's see how the largest wiki extant handles this new goal. There's no more suited software at this point, and there's no better place to start than what must be the single largest and most open repository of knowledge on the Internet — Truly the Library of Alexandria of the Information Age. Indeed, this is the ideal place to start. This is the beginning.

This was just the introduction. And I mean that both in wry and in earnest. But let's render such an inefficient way of annotating meaning obsolete, shan't we?

Tabbris (talk) 16:13, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

Scratchpad
Non-contextual notes that shouldn't be read into... since they are dumped here for recall and as such are presented without context. They may or may not be developed and explained in a contextual framework in the Body.

Todo

 * Contextual Lead-up
 * Livejournal
 * Written
 * Facebook
 * Instant Message
 * Exploration of Wikipedia and wikis as the closest-to-ideal starting-point
 * Further Elucidation
 * A note on the username
 * This angel holds dominion over free will, choice, alternatives and self-determination. Tabbris inspires the ability to clearly envision and choose creative alternatives. (http://www.mentator.com/angels_tabbris.shtml)

Random Related Articles Dump
Everything linked in the text, and... Don't look too far into this dump, since many of the terms carry a ton of perceptual baggage and are left here without context. It's not the intent to identify with any extant movement or philosophical system, but only perhaps relate with them or use their larger mindshare to further the conceptual understanding of the meaning behind the ideas described in the text.
 * Cyberculture
 * Transhumanism
 * Technological singularity
 * Thoughtform
 * Akashic records
 * Information overload
 * Information explosion