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After
Paris, May the First, 2005
Sunshine, hot, are we going to have a dry and killing summer?
We are in May and I looked at the statistics of April. They are not very reliable, if they are to be believed, we were nine thousand perplexed by the problem of what our world looks like if you are not human.
Nine thousands, take away the robots and errors, say we were 3000 users.
Three thousand users wondering what it means to be a “human” and who is pulling the strings?
The most and essential world is:
“Thanks” for walking on this road with me. Alzheimer is a knife that cuts scars in the heart, scars that go so deep that you are someone else if you come out of it. But who?
When the Lycos statistics go "dead", which is apparently a monthly event, I die a bit, I feel so lonely without you.
When you are an Alzheimer caretaker, you are faced with Humans who live in a different world. At times of great confusion, when you have not yet learned to be a caretaker, you might be so disturbed that you wonder whether you are going crazy or your loved one is going crazy.
Then you learn, you learn to live in two worlds at the same time.
You live and you learn that all the wisdom, practices of our World are not as certain and sure as we thought.
This is how I came to wonder how next Living Form would look after the Human mammal living form.
It seemed reasonable to assume that we have crossed a boundary around year 2000, we are beginning to link one human to another. At present we are only using cell phones and the net, but it is rather obvious that we shall soon implant a receiver in our brain and link all humans directly to the net and all humans to all humans.
The outcome can only be one, a virus will destroy all exchanges and communications between humans and machines.
Our civilization will vanish.
As to what will come next, I did not have to look very far, it has been here all the time.
For fun, as my life as agronomist in Africa was made much easier by the invention of the Spreadsheet, and the ability it gave us to solve a matrix in ten minutes instead of 48 hours, I assumed that the next living form would be a four dimensional spreadsheet system. Why not?
It had to be four dimensional as we already use three dimensional spreadsheets in accounting.
Having a rather slow brain, it took me many month to realize that a four dimensional spreadsheet is something that has been accompanying Humans for more than 50.000 years, it is called “MUSIC”
That is not really a huge discovery, Kubrick gave us the same message in the Space Odyssey.
So, when you read about the Glub Professor and his Glub bubble students, you have to think of it as a huge cathedral with Bach Music which would not be linear but simply be there going either forward or backward, or up or down, it does not matter.
When I started the Glub stories, it was for fun.
During the year of the Glubs, I have seen electronic communications invading our World.
We do not need any green monsters coming from space, we manufacture our own monsters.
There is nothing we can do about it.
Yes, there is something we can do about it, enjoy the cohabitation with the next form of Humanitude, enjoy MUSIC.
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