... Come on along ... to continue our "worded excursion" in BOOK TWO of a units of language "objet d'art," by Bil. Alvernaz (that's me looking out at you, looking back at me, through these words). The buttons above will help you find your way ... or "jump right in" and we can balance our way along this high-wire act performance, all without a net to catch us if we fall, though I know we won't. "Words to phrases, paragraphs to pages."™
Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
This being ...
BOOK TWO ...
NOTE: With these most current Communiqués, we're now "in" BOOK TWO of lifting and boldly carrying forth a "voice" even louder, stronger, and ever further (farther) across a global Dystopian landscape. So, if you already know the ropes here, you can just zip down to the newest communiqué. For newcomers, you can just continue on reading. BOOK ONE and BOOK TWO are both available here to read online or in downloadable .pdf files.
For so long "things have not been quite right," all while each of us constantly have “inklings” about so much "just not adding up." There's a certain something missing, but we can't quite put our intellectual fingers (IF) on what it is. The excess amount of absurdity comes at us day and night from everywhere, insulting our intelligence. The real indignity is we have to "play along" with it all ... you know, so people won't think we're the ones who are actually Batsh*t Crazy!
We're all seeking meaning in so much ridiculousness and babble that doesn't seem to make any sense. Especially the confusing clutter bombarding us every which way in a constant barrage of illogical elements. So, to do something about all of that, together, wherever it is we now are, we're going to traverse and repurpose a good number of the 100+ billion neutrons gathering and transmitting vibrant electrochemical signals in your brain.
Oh, yea, and, most importantly, all of this has to do with a) the "meaning of it all" ... your mission in life, even if you don't yet know what it is or can’t quite "get to it;" and 2) you need to start paying more attention to what is (and ISN'T) going on all around you! You've been stepping on (and in) the ectoplasm of so much of what you have completely missed along the way. That's because, instead of your brain just sitting there atop the entirety of your existence, you need to "flip the switch" controlling your mind from "slightly off" (where it is flickering like a motel sign continuing to dim, with certain letters ultimately failing to "light up") to the completely full ON position ... so you can do much, much more to PAY ATTENTION!
That’s why it is urgent I share these Communiqués with you ... so we can all channel our unlimited (though used so infrequently) potential, boosting and amplifying our mental horsepower in laser-beam focused and "with purpose" positive directions, most specifically for increased instances of Intellectual Stimulation (which is at the illusive, difficult to catch/grasp essence and pure substance of life - most significant to you and all that you want to do ... it's what you have been on a quest to find for so long now). An important factor here could be that maybe, just maybe, we all got off at the wrong planet! Not really, but, at so many points, it sure seems like that, doesn't it?
We'll get back to all of this in a bit. But, first we need to talk about what we're doing here and how things are going to work ...
... inscribed for Diana ... celebrating life! Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
That (well, this) upon which your eyeballs are relaying signals to your brain right here, online, I suppose you could call it "a book." But, it is much different, in that what we are doing, you and me, intellects intertwined, will evolve as we have an on-going discourse about all that has gone and continues to go awry. I'll be doing whatever it is we are doing "here" in bursts that will come to you in the form of Communiqués, with no particular "production schedule" ... read that as the Communiqués will "come flyin' your way" from time to time with no "set in stone" timetable. Whenever there is a new Communiqué burst, the "Newest Burst" button at the top of this landing page will be different color and include the number of the newest burst.
You can read along if you like, provide input, ideas, suggestions, advice, point out typos, and, yes, even interpose encouragement (or wrath and scorn) - (bil@alvernaz.com) ... or you can just kill this page and be done with it, thus moving right back "into the mix" of all the Batsh*t Crazy stuff we'll be covering here. Whatever you choose to do at this point it perfectly fine.
I know I'm on to something that speaks to so much of what usually doesn't get "talked about" ... that is until now ... and, if you're still with me, I think you know exactly what I'm talking about.
You can click on the button up at the top of this page (and at other points) to go right to the Communiqués section. You can request to be put on the Batsh*t Crazy Email Dispatches. That way you'll know whenever there is a new burst of Communiqués. Also, you can just click on any of the blue book cover icons to see and read all of what I have so far in the actual book (if that's what it really is or will be or could be or should be), complete with an index (though you won't need an index "here" as you can use CTRL 'F' to find any word or phrase). You'll find a link to the book when you first come into this site, too, as well as in various and assorted other places.
Batsh*t Crazy! Digital Dementia Dystopia is a series of copyrighted Communiqués that are broadcast here first in bursts, "hot off the press" as I write them (using my trusty word anvil). The key word in that last sentence is "copyrighted" which means I own 'em outright (everything you read here), every single word. Right now, here, this moment in time, you can read the Communiqués, following along in the "play of words." You can freely share any or all of these Communiqués with anyone and everyone else in whatever manner you choose (so long as you quote me as the source AND are NOT profiting from using my words). Everything you read will be real and true with me striving, among the collected combinations of words, to produce as many as possible of "that one true sentence" Hemmingway so eloquently and passionately talked about.
If you want to look for a specific topic or word/phrase, just use the web page search command which is usually a keyboard combo of the "CTRL" and "F" keys. All of the Communiqués are listed a little further on here, so you also have option to find what you are looking for.
This is a "worded performance" about how out of whack things and people are. Not just another narrative. Instead, a “mental engineering” examination of the Batsh*t Crazy stuff all around us (whether or not we each realize it or the extent of it) that no one seems to be doing anything about .
I won't be posting any of what I'm doing "here" anywhere else. That's because social media, emails, and texting, combined, are a monumental part of our collective, bewildering dilemma. Ah, but, therein lies my "marketeer weasel approach" to promoting what I’m doing here in what might seem to be a contradictory method that will, all too soon, make perfect sense (or so it would or could seem). I'm encouraging people to share my Communiqués on any social media platform, in emails, and even texting. Not me. THEM. They're the ones so firmly entrenched in all of those places they worship so much ... not me! So they can "spread the word" for me to help open people's eyes to what's really going on (and NOT going on) ...
So, in effect, I’m using what I see to be a mammoth problem to "tell the story," not only about our all-encompassing predicament, but how we can all start to "dig out" from this Alice in Wonderland, non-reality hole (that seems like, or actually has become, our reality) we're all spinning, twirling, whirling, thrashing, and gyrating around in.
I'm "here" for good cause. Things are askew, off-center, and misguided. You've sensed it. Maybe you missed it or just didn't care about it. But we all know something ain’t right somewhere. So we need to not just talk about it, but keep the conversation (and us) moving in a direction that takes us back to a point where things aren't so Batsh*t Crazy ... or we somehow, some way, know how to deal with it all better and more sanely (because none of the Batsh*t Craziness is going away any time soon ... or ever!).
Why? Because we are now living life sheathed in a "feels a bit too tight" Digital Dementia Dystopia where things look and feel like they always have ... sorta, kinda, maybe. But, it's all very much like that mirror on the passenger side of a car with light grey lettering at the bottom that no one pays much attention to (like so many other things). Those all-caps, rhyming words (if repeated enough times might even put you into a trance) say "objects in mirror are closer than they appear." So, basically, you don't really know what you think you are seeing. And, that is exactly what's going on with so much that is surrounding and smothering all of us, to the point where we actually do gasp or gag (knowingly or unknowingly ... maybe just mentally at a subconscious level, just enough so "alarm bells" start faintly sounding)!
THAT’S WHAT’S WRONG. It isn’t just things in the mirror not being what you think they are. Just about everything and everyone else in life is not quite what it all appears to be what it appears to be!
Look closer, much closer at what you think you see. Turn over rocks - LOTS of rocks (not real rocks, but, hopefully, there's enough logic "still in play" so you'll know what I mean). Ask questions, questions you normally wouldn't ask ... for whatever reason(s). Don't just accept things you are told or what you see for what they appear to be (because, in an incredible number of instances, they AREN'T). Start observing more closely what's going on (or not going on) all around you. Maybe you've already noticed something ain't right. A lot of "something," actually. So, you can (or should) see everything is totally screwed up. At work. At home. Anywhere you go.
And, I'll tell you why, my friend. YOU, along with me and everyone else, have succumbed to it all. Our technology connected world with hundreds of millions of virtual, intersecting grids seduce, persuade, coerce, and severely influence each of us, in crippling, debilitating, addictive strangleholds, with every glimpse, touch, or "urge to check" our connected devices.
You'll be able to see the truth in all of this at any point you catch a glimpse of your reflection in the glaze of whatever screen you're peering into. That's when it will be so easy to clearly see the seemingly "organized chaos" of how we're all "dancing around," in herky-jerky fashion like marionettes, with the marketeers (behind the scenes) tugging on our strings, making us feel involved (maybe even seeming to seem "happy") while getting us to do whatever they want (especially digging into our wallets to extract as much cash as possible).
So? Let's get on with it ...
"'ving been some days in preparation,
a splendid time is guaranteed for all."
... The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
... inscribed for Diana ... celebrating life! Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
Copyright NOTICE/RULES/PERMISSION: Batsh*t Crazy! Digital Dementia Dystopia is a series of copyrighted Communiqués that are broadcast in bursts, "hot off the press" as I write them (using my trusty word anvil). The key word in that last sentence is "copyrighted" which means I own 'em outright (everything you read here), every single word. Right now, here, this moment in time, you can read the Communiqués, following along in the "play of words." You can freely share any or all of these Communiqués with anyone and everyone else in whatever manner you choose (so long as you quote me as the source AND are NOT profiting from using my words). Everything you read will be real and true with me striving, among the collected combinations of words, to produce as many as possible of "that one true sentence" Hemmingway so eloquently and passionately talked about.
Okay, so ... what you have read up to this point is the exordium, that being the primary purpose of why we're all here and how things work for, you know, finding your way around, "up & down," "round & about," as well as trekking through all of the sludge and baffling absurdity besieging all of us, beyond the far reaches of that upon which you now, hopefully, will be more mindful ... so "connecting the dots" becomes all that much more intuitive. And, that will help us to more clearly see what it is we really see being presented to us.
Communiqués - Now it's just a matter of clicking any button or text you choose ...
It's a year ago now, this very day, that we started this 'excursion.' The mission is still the same. To look closer at so much of the ridiculousness and babble constantly bombarding us. It all sorta seems to make sense, but, when you stop and think about it, so much of it doesn't seem to add up. Especially the confusing clutter of social media mixed in with advertising everywhere you go. So many other things are constantly "hitting us" mentally every which way, too. That's what makes it incredibly difficult to tell really "what's what" in a constant barrage of seemingly logical, but really and truly illogical, elements.
Then there is the current upward-time-bomb-ticking trend of hateful nastiness, disrespect, and complete lack of courtesy and kindness. And, it's a noticeably increasing percentage of people interacting obnoxiously with others. Harsh rudeness and bullying shows up over and over again "in the news" and all around us every single day. Like spoiled children with self-worth issues who constantly crave being the center of attention, there is an abundance of needy people screaming and yelling.
When you stand back and take an objective glimpse at so much of what all is surrounding and engulfing you, more and more the entirety of it all seems to be smothering, as well as verging on suffocating, you/us. It's all incredibly irrational, even vicious, and unbelievably, foolishly insane ... Batsh*t Crazy. That's the only way to describe it.
Not only that, but our lives have become mentally sheathed in a "feels a bit too tight" Digital Dementia stretching across a Dystopian landscape and ever-changing canvas from which there seems to be no escape, relief, or even the slightest hint of respite ... that is, except for these words that are aimed at "rectification by identification."
Our overuse of and addiction to digital technology has led to many people consumed and overwhelmed (many times without even realizing it) by an actual medical condition known as "digital dementia." The Alzheimers.net web site explains it this way: "'Digital Dementia,' a term coined by a top German neuroscientist Dr. Manfred Spitzer in his 2012 book 'Demencia Digit@l,' is a term used to describe how overuse of digital technology is resulting in the breakdown of cognitive abilities in a way that is more commonly seen in people who have suffered head injuries or psychiatric illness."
This is affecting all ages, especially those who are "locked in" with social media, texting, and gaming (on and off line).
All you have to do is just look at the faces of people peering into those shiny screens of computing devices, including smartphones (one of the biggest culprits in all of this). Those people, ignoring everything else, even to the point of obliviously bumping into things and people (even hurting themselves and others), all have monosyllabic, simpleton gazes and stares, with mouths slightly ajar. Their fidgeting fingers sync up with the rapid movement (and occasional blinking) of their dancing eyeballs. This also ties to the frenetic pace of those involved and completely absorbed in/with gaming where billions and billions of dollars are being spent (many would say "wasted" ... moneywise and intellectually, too) in such mind-numbing pursuits.
The World Health Organization (WHO) just this year declared that playing video games is a mental health disorder! You can probably name several people “off the top of your head” who are caught up in these kinds of obsessions (and anti-social behavior).
WHO describes this mental health disorder as a "Gaming disorder" that is characterized by a clear pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior (‘digital gaming’ or ‘video-gaming’), which may be online (i.e., over the internet) or offline, manifested by: 1) impaired control over gaming (e.g., onset, frequency, intensity, duration, termination, context); 2) increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities; and 3) continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences. The behavior pattern is of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning. The pattern of gaming behavior may be continuous or episodic and recurrent. The gaming behavior and other features are normally evident over a period of at least 12 months in order for a diagnosis to be assigned, although the required duration may be shortened if all diagnostic requirements are met and symptoms are severe.”
So, we now have this mental health disorder, along with digital dementia. Think about that, though … overuse of digital technology (of which gaming is just one facet) is now associated with a head injury or psychiatric illness! And, we haven’t even touched on the cancer concerns of non-ionizing radiation from cell phones (along with other computing devices) emitting radio frequency energy (radio waves). There just might be more to that than you've thought (assuming you've ever even considered that you might be doing harm to yourself with certain digital “things”). If you want to read more about non-ionizing radiation (like what it might be doing when you have your cell phone propped next to your ear … and BRAIN), just click the link below:
All of what we have covered so far in our "worded excursion" (that being BOOK ONE) ... this now being the second book as we continue ... is more relevant than ever. Sure, technology is a "great thing," but it comes down to all-things digital being tools we can use to make things better (and more fun) in our lives. But, hey, we want to be very careful just how much we let technology overtake our lives. After all, the real world is still all around us.
And, just as with electricity, if you don't think you're "joined at the hip" with technology, take a good hard look at what happens (or doesn't happen) when the power goes out or, for whatever reason(s), you don't have "a signal" or any access to the overarching, "binding factor" in all of this ... the Internet!
So. Shall we continue on?
This is where you can nod your head up and down as you "turn the page," so to speak. Or, you can opt to stretch your lips across your teeth, without smiling, blink a few times, and then "go about your business," whatever else that you might be or could be or should be or would be otherwise doing.
We'll be right "here," at any point you want to return, "looking into things" that all too often get accepted as "normal" … that all being "just the way things are now."
It's not about what you can't imagine any longer.
It's all about what you could very easily imagine in the real world, if you just stand back and take a much closer, more objective look at what is (and isn't) going on all around you. And, that means YOUR role participating in this cognitive world of ours beyond "all digital things connected" in a Batsh*t Crazy, Digital Dementia Dystopia that is wrapping its tentacles ever tighter around our intellect each day as so many of the moments of our lives unfold all around us even if we aren't paying much, if any, attention to what's really going on in our peopled reality.
The nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, from Greek mythology, Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania, who are Goddesses and Muses of inspiration in literature, science, and the arts must be joined by our now oh, so familiar Goddess and Muse of Technology.
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... inscribed for Diana ... celebrating life! Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
Copyright NOTICE/RULES/PERMISSION: Batsh*t Crazy! Digital Dementia Dystopia is a series of copyrighted Communiqués that are broadcast in bursts, "hot off the press" as I write them (using my trusty word anvil). The key word in that last sentence is "copyrighted" which means I own 'em outright (everything you read here), every single word. Right now, here, this moment in time, you can read the Communiqués, following along in the "play of words." You can freely share any or all of these Communiqués with anyone and everyone else in whatever manner you choose (so long as you quote me as the source AND are NOT profiting from using my words).
I'll be the first to admit I have bent the rules and "pushed things," as well as perpetrated some minor, law-breaking activities. Hey, we've all "gone over the speed limit" driving. Also, in a lot of other ways, too.
Just as language binds us together in the civilized world, rules and laws provide the fabric of society with a framework of consciousness and consequences.
Yea, it would be great if everyone went by the golden rule and ethic of reciprocity. You know, where everyone would treat others the same way they wish to be treated.
But, fables, stories, and real life all illuminate that we truly do need rules and laws. That takes us directly to the government, but that's not what this Communiqué is about.
Here's the thing. Yes, we most definitely need rules and laws. To what extent, well, that "takes you down the road" of discussing religion, philosophy, and politics. We aren't going to do that here. Instead, let's look at self-imposed rules and "laws." We all somehow have come up with those "limitations" for ourselves. We also tend to apply such rules and laws when we look upon (and judge) others, too.
So just what is the nonsensical logic and, most likely, superstitions that lead us to bind ourselves in invisible constraints and self-imposed limitations?
Insecurity, uncertainly, dodging risk-taking, fear, and even "things" associated with self-worth (as well as habits, good and bad) all add up to those rules and laws we create for ourselves. Oh, yea, and the "relative factor" where the whining, complaining, badgering and haranguing by do-gooders (families we were born into and "friends") play a MONSTER role in so much that you keep yourself from doing.
But, hey, we all have to "deal with stuff." That shouldn't stop us from what we otherwise would or could or should be doing. It all comes back to ...
What would make you happy?
So?
How 'bout "busting up" some of your rules and laws?
Do something new.
Go somewhere you haven't been before.
Try ordering a new dish (instead of the "same old thing") next time you are at a restaurant. Or, fix something new and exotic at home!
What's the worst thing that could happen, if you move beyond your comfort zone?
Oh, yea, there is the "you might be embarrassed" thing.
But, what about the exhilaration of something new, different, fun, challenging, and, most importantly, something that would bask you in so much happiness that only a grinish smile could convey the significance of it all?
It's all completely up to you, because no one else decreed what you think you think or can to do.
You have 48 hours from now to "break a rule" ... or two ... or three.
Don't even think about it. Just do something ... anything!
[END OF TRANSMISSION]
... inscribed for Diana ... celebrating life! Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
Copyright NOTICE/RULES/PERMISSION: Batsh*t Crazy! Digital Dementia Dystopia is a series of copyrighted Communiqués that are broadcast in bursts, "hot off the press" as I write them (using my trusty word anvil). The key word in that last sentence is "copyrighted" which means I own 'em outright (everything you read here), every single word. Right now, here, this moment in time, you can read the Communiqués, following along in the "play of words." You can freely share any or all of these Communiqués with anyone and everyone else in whatever manner you choose (so long as you quote me as the source AND are NOT profiting from using my words).
Just because you can do it, doesn't mean you should or could or would.
Billions and billions of dollars are being spent on a wide variety of autonomous vehicles.
People have already been killed by self-driving cars as well as the "autopilot" feature found in electric cars (we won't single out Tesla because there are many others, too). Could this all have started because someone couldn't parallel park?
And, is the vehicle going to be "held responsible" for traffic infractions, accidents, and deaths?
The concept of self-driving cars is like using voice commands when working with electronic devices like Apple's Siri for the iPhones and Amazon's Echo related products (there are a whole lot of them). Okay, so to "interact" with Echo, you start each sentence/command with "Alexa ..." and then say/command what you want.
So, what about someone with the name "Alexa?" How does that work? I mean, if you're talking to the person named "Alexa," in the vicinity of an Echo device, then you can't use that person's name to start a sentence (or anywhere in the sentence, for that matter, one would assume), because the Echo device will think you are talking to it, right?
But, never mind about that, getting back to self-driving vehicles, there is one single, overarching question.
And, that relates to simply answering this ...
Would you "sit back and relax," talking to someone or reading a book or casually closing your eyes, listening to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, all while you never even look at the road as the car you're in drives itself?
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... inscribed for Diana ... celebrating life! Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
Copyright NOTICE/RULES/PERMISSION: Batsh*t Crazy! Digital Dementia Dystopia is a series of copyrighted Communiqués that are broadcast in bursts, "hot off the press" as I write them (using my trusty word anvil). The key word in that last sentence is "copyrighted" which means I own 'em outright (everything you read here), every single word. Right now, here, this moment in time, you can read the Communiqués, following along in the "play of words." You can freely share any or all of these Communiqués with anyone and everyone else in whatever manner you choose (so long as you quote me as the source AND are NOT profiting from using my words).
They have always been right here ... and there ... everywhere.
They are constantly around all of us, without most people even knowing it.
For the most part, they seem to be invisible to so many people, though they really aren't. They are right "there" (and "here") in plain sight all around us. You just have to know how to adjust your perspective and visual acuity to look for and see them. Actually, you've probably seen many of them, but never really noticed what it was you were (or weren't) seeing.
I need to bespake your patience, just a wee bit here (well, probably A LOT). This is sort of a complex "simple concept" (actually, it is more on the order of another level or sphere of REALITY) to grasp. Yet, there needs to be a certain amount of exactitude in telling you about it, so you can ever so slightly adjust your line of sight. That's the only way for you to fully latch on to seeing what has been right there in front of you all along ... including right this very minute.
Knowing what I have to tell you will allow you to do what I and many others have somehow managed to do. And, that is experience the sensation of actually focusing on what you never or ever even could have possibly considered ... or attempted to imagine that you could envision.
They really aren't a phenomenon, per se. Though they most certainly are. They look at us, too, as a singularity, of sorts, but that's a whole different story (that I will eventually get to).
They need us as much as we need them ...
They are not a paradox or absurdity either. But, I guess, in many ways you could, indeed, consider them to be either one ... kinda, sorta, maybe.
They are here for a very specific reason and that's what makes all of this so important ... for them and us.
They have been observed and perceived by certain individuals, including me, over countless decades. It usually starts out as catching slight, sideways glimpses of them (mostly like shadows) out of the corner of your eye. After that, well, things can easily lead to life changing happenstances. But, I'm getting ahead of myself here.
I'm one of the people who actually saw them and now regularly interacts with them. I've experienced no ill-effects from all of this. Actually, they have greatly enhanced my life, as I also have done for them. Though the impacts and effects of "them with us" or "us with them," ah, well, therein lies the conundrum. You don't know how they will affect you until you actually make contact with them ... especially when you start interacting with them, if they allow it.
Most people can't or don't see them, for whatever reason(s). The ones who actually do see and interact with them, ah, well, the largest percentage of those individuals, over the last couple hundred years, have "ended up in places" for extended stays at a wide variety of "institutions," to address what were somehow determined to be various, assorted, and miscellaneous mental maladies and "conditions" or "spells."
Of course, that's exactly the way they want things to be in relation to us because it is important that they keep a low profile. Otherwise, that could negatively impact what they are really doing here (that isn't hurting or impinging anyone, by the way).
"They" being what (well, actually "who") are known as Extra People who want to keep low profiles.
So, let me see here. Ah. The best way to provide the details on all of this, is to tell you what happened to me ... how it all started and the way I came to see (and work with) the Extra People. I've gotten to know them quite well, with them still being a big part of my life (and definitely helping me cope) in this Batsh*t Crazy Digital Dementia Dystopia of ours.
For me, this all started at the beginning of the age, though it now continues in rapid fire fashion, of personal computers, the Internet, smartphones, and all of the rest of our techno-weenie world we continue to "tread water" in ... as well as observe, on a daily basis, the effects of digital dementia and mental health disorders.
An odd, most unlikely, other-worldly beginning ...
It was a cold, rainy night.
I know that sounds like the opening line of a cheap, badly written paperback. But, this is really what happened one windy, chilly, rainy evening ...
First, you need to know that static electricity, sparks, and flames are key transitional and evolutionary points in all of this.
I was working on a holographic project with a company in Redmond, Washington, that shall remain nameless for many reasons. Though it shouldn't be too hard to figure just what "changed-the-world" company I'm talking about.
What we had achieved in this project was remarkable, because for the first time ever, holograms could be created easily by tying together simple algorithms. The entire software configuration based on this algorithm came from ancient Mesopotamian symbols. Those details and that part of this story has to do with the disclosure of information and details I'm not allowed to talk about because of a non-expiring Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) I signed many years ago. Actually, I probably shouldn't even be telling you this much ... but I fully/fooly intend to do so!
You need to know about this! The main reason is because there are probably Extra People around you at this very moment!!! That will make more sense in a little bit here.
Anyway, the basis of what we were doing at the time was the beginning stages of no longer needing monitors for computers ... no screens of any type required. The way we did that was complicated but relied on one single, simple, critical element to make holography all happen for practical uses ... and, yes, for games, too.
Generating static electricity had been the "missing part of the equation" we finally managed to harness so you could have vivid, 3D images pop up out of a computing device into thin air right in front of you (or even all around you). So, there was no longer any need for a screen or monitor. The most amazing part in all of this was that you could look at the image "displayed" in front of you straight-on, or from the side, or even from the other side, behind it. You could look at the images from any angle, including from a higher or lower vantage point. And, we even managed to get the holograms to wrap all the way around you, engulfing you an experience like nothing else!
This all took virtual reality, well, right into the reality that is all around us. And, all without any goofy, not-so-comfortable (especially for extended viewing) goggles or eye-contraptions. And, by doing what we were doing, there were no side-effects afterwards like what any virtual reality device has warning labels for.
With our holographic "viewing awareness," what you projected upward from the device was what you could see from any angle, all crystal clear, with vivid 3D "definition," far beyond even Blu-ray, 4K, 8K, and anything else. It was (and still is) far superior to any of today's screens. Only with our hologram viewing, you could project the size from small, roughly the size of most computer monitors, to gigantic, being much bigger than and far beyond any large-screen TV.
Oh, and get this ... the power drain to run any part of this?
NOTHING!
Nothing, as in no electricity required. That's where maximizing the imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of anything quantifiable (static electricity) comes into play. I'll come back to all of this because it directly relates to the Extra People.
What's most important here is that the way these holographic images are projected or displayed all has to do with a thin, squiggly, undulating and pulsating red line shooting upward from the computing device. The red line then quickly expands outward to create panoramic, "wrap-around" viewing.
It was getting that red line to function properly that led to me first spotting one of the Extra People.
While working on and testing this holographic device, I had noticed for quite some time, on the far edges of my peripheral vision, what I thought to be movements of some sort. I never was sure just what I thought I saw. Most of the time, I know what I was seeing were the shapes and sizes of people. I'd then quickly look to where I thought I had seen something (or someone), but there was never anything "there" ... or so I thought.
It's when I looked at my reflection in a regular computer monitor that I also was working on while testing how the squiggly red lines worked to produce the holographic visions that I first saw one of the Extra People behind me ... well, just exactly like what you can see over your shoulder RIGHT NOW if you look closely at your reflection on the screen into which you are peering.
Oh, my, it looks like maybe even more than one of the Extra People is standing right behind you ... most likely, looking at other Extra People already in your immediate vicinity!
<>Part Two comes next (or is possibly just over your shoulder) ...<>
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... inscribed for Diana ... celebrating life! Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
Copyright NOTICE/RULES/PERMISSION: Batsh*t Crazy! Digital Dementia Dystopia is a series of copyrighted Communiqués that are broadcast in bursts, "hot off the press" as I write them (using my trusty word anvil). The key word in that last sentence is "copyrighted" which means I own 'em outright (everything you read here), every single word. Right now, here, this moment in time, you can read the Communiqués, following along in the "play of words." You can freely share any or all of these Communiqués with anyone and everyone else in whatever manner you choose (so long as you quote me as the source AND are NOT profiting from using my words).
We ain't quite done yet ... you know, just like all of your texts and emails ...
... there's more of these Communiqués to come ... (a lot more) ...
See you soon ...
REN (Return ... Ensue ... Notabilia)
In other words ... check back in, to follow in order,
matters, and events, as well as items worth noting.
This is an interactive experience, however much (or little) you choose to be engaged ... beyond "taking it all in" ... we're in this together, so, as you tiptoe your way along in these units of language, whatever comes to mind, anything you want to say, just let me know.
While there are futurists and people studying everything from Quantum Mechanics to the origins of the Universe (and even the God Particle), I look at myself from what I truly feel is a pragmatic enlightenment perspective, best summed up in my PhD Life Thesis term as a "Nowist" ... in that all you have is now and everything plays off of that ... to do with what you have right now (all based on everything that has carried you to this moment in time), maximizing it (and you) to the fullest possible potential. You can reach me at - bil@alvernaz.com.
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... inscribed for Diana ... celebrating life! Penned by America's Premier Unknown Writer!
