• eezeebee
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    9 days ago

    hits blunt Cars on the highway are like data in a network. What if Earth is just a computer for aliens?

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      “The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day…”

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      For a computer or network to work, the data has to behave in a controlled predictable way.

      People don’t drive like that. Drivers would make for a terrible computer.