Post #44523 by Tiki_Bong on Fri, Jul 25, 2003 11:30 AM

And being everything to everyone is cool I guess. But I've always had a concern about society in general being so dependent on the net/computers in order to behave in human-like ways - what if the servers fail!

Hey, I see a novel here - (Some time in the future)-

'Society continued to cling to the net, like a suckling to the tite, until eventually the lower limbs of humankind withered away. In addition, people had lost the basic skills to interact with each other on a face-to-face level.

Much like Oz, humans had built themselves up as great machines in their user profiles. A great wave of depression set in as man was faced to accept reality - he/she wasn't a successful software engineer, who likes running, working out, dinners by candlelight, long walks on the beach - as a matter of fact, they could no longer walk at all.

Then on what was to become the new millenium's 'Black Monday', the the unthinkable happened - the master servers were all shut down by the hideous 'Anti-Society Virus'.

Afraid and unable to leave their computer screens, man was only able to stare blankly at the once illuminated screen. In it he saw the reflection of a once recognizable face - his.'

Or not.