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24/365 - Binary
26 January 2011 00:11At first there was darkness. Then there was light.
At first there was zero. Then there was one.
The great divide that created language. Light and dark, the binary language of life. The computer we’re in is a morse-code program of dots and dashes. Ellipses and connectors. Mid-syllable returns. From far enough away, newspaper photographs are shades of grey even through they’re made of black dots in white space. We are made of dots. We are made of shades of grey at a distance but points of dark and light up close. The dust of stars and the points of energy that dance to make us solid.
A grand illusion of morality told in code that makes machines move and puppets us from one relationship, situation and choice to another. We write the program by existing and it’s not finished. Functional and elegant in places, in need of great reform in others. How many opinions make a dancer? How many muscles make a thought?
We have discovered to language of machines only to realize that it was our language all along.
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At first there was zero. Then there was one.
The great divide that created language. Light and dark, the binary language of life. The computer we’re in is a morse-code program of dots and dashes. Ellipses and connectors. Mid-syllable returns. From far enough away, newspaper photographs are shades of grey even through they’re made of black dots in white space. We are made of dots. We are made of shades of grey at a distance but points of dark and light up close. The dust of stars and the points of energy that dance to make us solid.
A grand illusion of morality told in code that makes machines move and puppets us from one relationship, situation and choice to another. We write the program by existing and it’s not finished. Functional and elegant in places, in need of great reform in others. How many opinions make a dancer? How many muscles make a thought?
We have discovered to language of machines only to realize that it was our language all along.
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