The Coming of Shadows

or The Lord of the Disks

or Trenton's Stupid Prophecy of Doom

01/04/03

The userpers of technology are forging a tool to enslave mankind. The dark lords of Microsoft and IBM are pouring enormous effort into "Work Flow Management". WFM will be used to enslave mankind.

WFM seeks to tell everyone what to do all the time. It will start fairly benignly, and even appear beneficial. It will improve the profits of business because it will allow efficient work flow. It will come in the disguise of a gift. Initially many will profit from it who will later become enslaved.

There are parallels to "Bicameral Mind" in that (whether you buy that book's premise or not). WFM is the tool intended to bring about the re-cameralization of humanity. Its sole purpose is to return not only the voices of the gods, but man's dependence on them. First you'll have a to do list for the work day. Then, a hand held computer, linked wirelessly through the ether, to the forces of darkness. Eventually, the hand held will be replaced by a microchip embedded into the skull at birth. At this time the voices of the gods of bicameral man will return and bend all of mankind to their will. But it will not be the old gods, returned to their former glory. It will be the new gods, the self made deities risen to power through treachery, deceit, and lies.

Bill Gates is like Sauron. He even has is own volcano, for crying out loud. When did it erupt?  What was the big MS release that year, heralded by the eruption?) Is the Space Needle his tower?  Hmmmm.

The internet is the seeing medium of the Palentiri (browsers). Lynx, then Netscape, the MS itself brought forth the mass production of inferior Palentiri and spread them amongst the peoples of the Earth so that they could look out and see far. But these seeing stones (the glass of the monitor is the crystal ball?) were corrupt, and poisoned. For they allow their master to watch every move of their unwitting victims, learning their ways, their interests, and the desires of their hearts.  In this way are the "Children of PARC" even now being brought under the influence of the dark lords, and nearer to their own destruction.

Things you need for computing:

a vision - Vannevar Bush's "memex"

a machine - John Von Newman, et. al.

a way to compute - Alan Turing, Alonzo Church, et. al.

a way to store data - E.F. Codd

a way to manipulate data - SRI, Douglas Engelbart; PARC Jef Raskin et. al.

a way to view data - SRI, Engelbart

a way to program - PARC, Alan Kay et. al.

a way to share data - PARC

All the other High Masters of the craft, the sorcers of PARC and their descendents, all must be listed and accounted for.  Brian Kernigan, Dennis Righie, Ken Thompson, etc.

Rise of the Verads (seekers of truth) (Jobs was corrupted to the dark side, but later partially repentent?). First rise of the dark lord. Seattle is Mordor.

Open Source and its attempt to throw off the yolk; requires analysis.

Treatise on OS's, Languages, posers, and the walking dead.

Graphic UI, Networking, OOP == the three Silmarils

End?