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The Geek Shall Inherit
We gamers and geeks owe a massive debt of gratitude to The Matrix for changing people's perceptions. Never before have pasty-faced coders and game junkies been in a better position to exploit the cool that permeates even just the fringes of The Matrix.
I may be sitting here perfectly still, typing at an incredible pace, clicking on icons and cursing at screens full of incomprehensible code, but my online avatar is actually kicking seven shades of shit out of yours. I'm talking to people on three different continents in three languages, 0|\|3 0PH +he|\/| 15|\|'T 3\/3|\| 4 R34l l4|\|9U49e. This page of code? This ftp program UI you see? I'm hacking the Pentagon.
But one thing I would just like to clear up... just one cause, y'know it is a slight concern to me when people like us are presented to the world for mass consumption is that we do not whoop, clap our hands and dance around with glasses of wine while building hydra 128-bit encrypted Trojans. That's misrepresentation and I want compensation.
And my real name... is Deimos {puts on mirrored shades, pulls coat around himself and speeds off up into the sky...}
Update: Kerist! Those Wachowski brothers sure don't pull any punches when it comes to brutal storytelling. The Second Renaissance, Part 2 now available online. Don't watch it while eating, it has pretty graphic scenes of man fighting the machines
May. 7.2003