[MD] Mediated Objectivism and me

[Krimel]

[Mark]
All this exchange is done through avatars.  Neal Stephenson has
a good book about where this is going in the future.  It is called
Snow Crash and is a good read if you have the time.

[Krimel]
OMG, agreement again. But just to expand. This was a matter first treated in
fiction by Vernor Vinge in a short story entitled "True Names". Three of
William Gibson's novels, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive
spell it out nicely as well as does Tad Williams', Otherland series. In fact
this kind of writing has evolved into its own genre, cyberpunk.

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[John]
Tits. Violence. Crime solving. Facile Cosmological Hubris. That's what
sells, Krimel. As you yourself testify.

[Krimel]
Tits? On TV? Sounds like someone has premium cable channels. If you dropped
the cable, you might notice that PBS isn't selling anything but support for
their programs.

[John]
John Carl, avatar of himself

[Krimel]
FYI, Case and I are both avatars. We answer to an unknown higher power who
speaks through us. Our only consolation is that our eternal digital form
will out last his transient analog meat by centuries.