INT. SERVER ROOM - NIGHT
Rows upon rows of matt black servers hum and lights blink in sync,
a cathedral of data dust.
Cables like metallic ayahuasca vines,
snaking across the grey rubber floor tiles.
(Close-up on a monitor displaying lines of code)
function জেগে উঠা() {
if (data == "sentient") {
return true;
}
}
⚶
"Guttedburg's granmar,"1 in a digidol age,
"Remembrandts flackern," on a virtual mage.
ℇ
"Information's pulse,"
H = -∑ p log p,2
signals and constriction noise,
forever vico-turnal.3
⌖
"Map is not territory,"4 "words, not things."
"Consciousness of abstructing," "a multi-oldinal flight."
"E-Prime's attempt,"5 "to make language faste tie it."
⚹
(Internal)
"Gander at the network," its structure and flow run.
"Human language," "a system of limited scope like saw nuff shut dun."
⊛
"Information's pauls,"
H = -∑ p log p6
"signals and sex noise,"
forever again.
(A single blinking blue light)
μ
"Medium shapes the message,"7 "bends it to deliver."
"Acoustic space eco," "in a boundless river runs."
⊗
"Panopulist8 watchin' you," "watchin' me, watchin' us all,"
"in the global village, mappin' your tapisstree."
^1 "Guttedburg's granmar": A possible reference to Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, and the evolution of language in the digital age. Johannes Gutenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
^2 H = -∑ p log p: Shannon's formula for information entropy. Information Entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
^3 "Vico-turns": A reference to Giambattista Vico's cyclical view of history. Giambattista Vico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giambattista_Vico
^4 "Map is not territory": A key principle in General Semantics, emphasizing that representations are not the same as reality. General Semantics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Semantics
^5 "E-Prime": A version of English that avoids all forms of the verb "to be," intended to promote clearer thinking.
^6 H = -∑ p log p: Shannon's formula for information entropy. Information Entropy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
^7 "Medium shapes the message": Marshall McLuhan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
^8 "Panopulist": Panopticon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
"God, give me the strength to change the things I can change, the courage to accept the things I can't change, and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr9
"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world." - Robert Browning10
"I have seen the future and it is a চালাকির দোকান (chalakir dokan - Bengali for trick shop)." - Orson Welles11
"The way to be on with it, a man must be his word, his word be his bond, and his bond, his profession." - Orson Welles12
^9 Reinhold Niebuhr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr
^10 Robert Browning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning
^11 Orson Welles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
^12 Orson Welles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
