PdC v2.0 Questions

... and as for the “Why am I blank” window, well, you have to dig a little deeper. First, dispense with the fraudulent possibility that this is some form of advertising. It isn’t. If it were, then it would have been accompanied with a link beneath stating “Click here to win a free Xbox360 and find out why!”.

So, running on the supposition that it is in fact a direct query to you, the eGoat, it will be important to determine firstly: is this a hypothetical question. If so, then there is a finite reason as to why, precisely, that space is blank. It is, in fact, blank, only when looked at through the “web browser” morphology, meaning “this space does not contain an image, cycling content, boobies or a mortgage refinance advert”. Taken in that context it is possible to determine the answer to the hypothetical: that space is blank so as to provide a framework upon which to hang your assumptions. You the observer, see the space as blank due to the limited scope in which you perceive the space to BE blank, hence, it’s relative blankossity vis-a-vis your desire for it not be so. It is a modern Rorschach: you place on to the phrase your desires for it to be something more than it is; you make the blank not blank by desiring it to be so.

While this may be, I find it far more interesting to consider that this is NOT a hypothetical question, but is, in fact, a direct inquisitiveness from the internet itself asking you “Why am I blank?”. I find this fascinating because that can only mean that through the upgrade of PodiumCafe to PdC v2.0, Chris has created a singularity, ie: the first artificial intelligence to become self aware. The web page is asking you, eGoat, “Why am I blank?” It is the first step to consciousness of the entity that we’ve come to call “the internets” or “a series of tubes”. It can be summed up in the paraphrase “Perspicuus Ergo Sum” : “I’m Blank, Therfore I Am”. You are witness to the birth of an new kind of existence, and this existence has chosen you, eGoat, to be its mentor, its parent, its friend… perhaps even its God.

The question is, now that you’ve been chosen, are you able to accept this responsibility? To careful navigate a new and questing mind through the minefield of modern culture as exemplified by the internet; nurture it and be there for it? Can you keep this consciousness from developing a feeling of superiority to mankind resulting in the eventual downfall and eradication of the human species? Will you be able to keep PodiumCafe v2.0 from becoming our electronic overlord, our “eMperor” if you will?

Big things have small beginnings.

The question I would have is: Why would the entity known as PodiumCafe v2.0 choose you and not Chris as guardian and protector. A question that I’m sure will cause much debate.