OFF TOPIC Snow Crash [was Re: Hello World]

[alister]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 15:13:25 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

 
> Deep in the brain, well underneath the level of modern languages and
> consciousness, there is a deeper "machine language" of the brain. If you
> can write instructions in this machine language, you can control
> people's brains. Back in the distant past, the Sumerians learned how to
> do this via spoken language, but few people speak Sumerian any more,
> hence there are two versions of Snow Crash: one is a drug plus virus.
> The drug is to encourage people to inject themselves, which then allows
> the virus to get into their brain. The other is an animated bitmap,
> which contains "machine code" for the human brain, and is injected via
> the optic nerve (i.e. when a hacker sees it).

is this why web designers are now embeding QR codes in web pages?



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