Let's try this again...
Due to a minor mishap with the pop-up blocker, I lost a post (sigh) so I'll do my best to recreate it here and now. I am going to try taking 5-10 minutes a day to write about random topics. Just an exercise. Hope you enjoy it.
What if "signals" were visible?
What if "signals" (radio, cellular, WiFi, ad nauseum) where visible like dust in the air, or fog? Or would it be like a source of dim light? Would we be walking around in a thin haze, or a thick soup? What would the Earth appear to be like from out there? Would it be shrouded in fog, like Jupiter? Would it glow with the signals like a small star?
What would a house, sitting alone on a beach, connected only by hardlines but with it's own WiFi network look like? Would it be hidden in a sphere of fog that increases in density as you get closer? Would it have a texture, throwing out spikes of signal, as the materials of the construction block or weaken the radiating signals? How about a cell phone radiating a Bluetooth cloud, would the people using such devices look like they were enclosed in a soft blue bubble, or even a double-bubble as the headset they were using created it's own secondary cloud?
I wonder what it would have been like to watch the Earth as the proliferation of signals commenced over the last hundred fifty or so years? With the beginning of radio, and then adding TV, microwave, aircraft radar, the advent of cellular, and now WiFi and Bluetooth. How fast is the fog thickening, I wonder?
What if "signals" were visible?
What if "signals" (radio, cellular, WiFi, ad nauseum) where visible like dust in the air, or fog? Or would it be like a source of dim light? Would we be walking around in a thin haze, or a thick soup? What would the Earth appear to be like from out there? Would it be shrouded in fog, like Jupiter? Would it glow with the signals like a small star?
What would a house, sitting alone on a beach, connected only by hardlines but with it's own WiFi network look like? Would it be hidden in a sphere of fog that increases in density as you get closer? Would it have a texture, throwing out spikes of signal, as the materials of the construction block or weaken the radiating signals? How about a cell phone radiating a Bluetooth cloud, would the people using such devices look like they were enclosed in a soft blue bubble, or even a double-bubble as the headset they were using created it's own secondary cloud?
I wonder what it would have been like to watch the Earth as the proliferation of signals commenced over the last hundred fifty or so years? With the beginning of radio, and then adding TV, microwave, aircraft radar, the advent of cellular, and now WiFi and Bluetooth. How fast is the fog thickening, I wonder?
posted by Stephen Hughes-Jelen at 10:36 AM
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What would the sun be a symbol of? As I was driving south in the fog, I could look up and look directly at the sun thru the fog without hurting my eyes. Ir reminded me of any eclipse but it was something I could look at. It was an incredbile bright shiny disk. Would this be the hub, hard drive, or something else I wonder?
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