Why, when we find a place that's broken or an empty 404 link on the Web, do we not get to see behind the scenery?
But in my mind we should see something more elegant than just lots of garbage code flitting backawards and forwards, from continent to continent. We should see a beautiful vista, as if someone had punched a whole in the outer-shell of the Web to reveal what actually lies behind all the scenery department's fine work. Like a city-scape at night, shot from 30,000 feet and sped up to show all the lights glistening and flashing past below. Or from the viewpoint of of travelling data and the view it would have from inside a fiber-optic cable, as your bits pull over and stop for a few moments to take in some scenery at a random point in the global network somewhere. Or from a position floating just above the earth.
Our data gets to see all the good stuff.
(There are, admittedly, all the dark underground tunnels too, but data can't have it all ways, can it? And, yes, I am aware that Fiber-Optic cable has an opaque casing around it which would prevent light leakage and, therefore, the ability to see outside it but, what worth is a world without romance?)
But in my mind we should see something more elegant than just lots of garbage code flitting backawards and forwards, from continent to continent. We should see a beautiful vista, as if someone had punched a whole in the outer-shell of the Web to reveal what actually lies behind all the scenery department's fine work. Like a city-scape at night, shot from 30,000 feet and sped up to show all the lights glistening and flashing past below. Or from the viewpoint of of travelling data and the view it would have from inside a fiber-optic cable, as your bits pull over and stop for a few moments to take in some scenery at a random point in the global network somewhere. Or from a position floating just above the earth.
Our data gets to see all the good stuff.
(There are, admittedly, all the dark underground tunnels too, but data can't have it all ways, can it? And, yes, I am aware that Fiber-Optic cable has an opaque casing around it which would prevent light leakage and, therefore, the ability to see outside it but, what worth is a world without romance?)