Wetweb

The Wetweb is a multicultural worldwide communication network that cannot be policed except through embedded wetweb agents. It is not the internet, nor is it even a thing in the singular sense. It is not stable and constantly changes. It is also something of a metaphor for itself, a representation, a reflection of us as a species, rather than a product of one culture or a single ideology, political or religious. It contains and collectively archives that which makes us human, and serves as the true launch point for expanding the definition of humanity.

Censorship, or the drive to censor, represents a culmination of a thought process that follows these lines: I am bothered by something. I don't want anyone else to experience it, because it bothers me. Therefore I must destroy or ban this before anyone else can experience it. The wetweb, through its experiential nature, is thus naturally targeted by censorious ideologies. It violates cultural taboos.

Yet everyone should be able to self-regulate, to use the wetweb and the reconstruction of themselves as part of the network, and while perhaps parental guidance is essential to responsible use of the wetweb through filters, that one should be able to use the wetweb without being merged with the WE, or hijacked by some parasitic intelligence, that the wetweb should remain a sterilized tool for the expansion of public knowledge. Sadly the quality of that public knowledge and the ability of librarial servers to fulfill their UN charters are seriously jeopardized.

The operators of librarial servers are the archivists of the human condition. In order to perform their calling, they must have universal access, unconditionally, to all information. To hold a librarial operator responsible for restriction of access to information calls into question the very value of a librarial service.

The wetweb is not merely information, it is active, alive, and accretion of human experience. Information given life, that can give life, information that has form. A primordial soup of text and image animated by autonomous avatars that can touch upon every concievable subject. It is alive, in the sense that it moves, flows, grows.. it reflects and refracts and prisms all that we, as a species, are and have been. As such it is both a technical marvel and an art form.

It's our own registry hack of DNA strands, our tool to transform our cellular structure, to regrow new tissues with coagulative proteins, to lengthen telomeres that we might not age, to customize omnicillian enzymes, salvaging the body.

Information now given flesh, and we are the word.