A Cyber Black Hole starts eating the internet

[newburydave]

What if something in the World Wide Web hit critical mass and opened a "digital black hole" into another dimension in N-Space. Then said black hole began to suck more and more of the internet and the internet nodes into itself.

When it was just social networking sites being afffected it was traumatic for teens and twentysomethings but then it swallowed the US Air-force Strategic Command node. . .

[myrthman]

Skynet?

[juniperlee]

Jan 3, 2010 17:25:46 GMT -5 myrthman said:

Skynet?

Arnold will have to give up his governor's seat to save the world

[newburydave]

C'mon guys, I'm serious (well as much as any loosely wrapped Sf author can be) (well my doctor said I was serious anyway, don't know if he was talking about my fiction writing though; probably ought to ask him) please let's get out of the sink hole of Hollywierd.

Imagine if Facebook were pulled into the 8th dimension and strange multidimensional non-corporeal sentients started setting up profiles and trying to take over the identities of we Earthlings and move into our computers. Eeeeeeeek!

Imagine if The Anomaly was suddenly joined by Glymphtors from the 10th dimension who wanted to write Sf about a strange physical place called Earth and this came up in their cerebral search net under Alternate Realities.

I mean turn on your creativity chips and let's generate some ideas.

(Skynet Harrumph! Anyone knows Arnold can't act. Let California have him.)

[myrthman]

Jan 9, 2010 9:10:49 GMT -5 newburydave said:

...and move into our computers.

Ha! Gives new meaning to there being a bug in the system!

Sorry about the skynet remark, Dave. Just my first reaction. Now I've seen more of your idea, I like it. I wonder if it would be selective about what it "eats" or would it go after sites with the most traffic first, such as the social networking ones. Is this thing sentient or just a doorway to things that are?

What if the Glymphtors had no taste for writing at all but appreciated the value of a database full of credit card info and social security numbers? Power over us through transdimensional identity theft. Would Equifax and Lifelock develop a team of monster fighters and anti-alien commandos? "If you don't release the personal info of 98% of the Earth's population in the next nanosecond, I'm gonna splag seven of your eleven eyes. Oops! Times up!" BLAMMO!!

For whatever reason, I see this taking a campy direction. Maybe that's just me though. Anyone else got a more serious idea?

[journeyman]

Reminds me of Buckaroo Banzi across the 8th Dimension. Lectroids John Bigboote, and Yoyodyne. My favorite quote from this movie was by Buckaroo, "Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are. "

Ah, but I digress... :-)

[newburydave]

Grrrrr. . . .

You guys are as weird and irreverent as I am!

Isn't there a single straight man or woman in the crowd?

(I mean in the vaudeville sense not that other orientation stuff.)

Hey Lou, Who's on first? . . . Ahhh, . . the Netvoid that ate St. Louis, I think.

[scintor]

Personally, I think that any entity that invaded our internet and tried to make a home there would be more likely to be in constant danger that to be a threat. They might desperately be looking for safe havens like the Anomaly to keep them safe from the constant bombardment of viruses and spyware as well as all the malicious and corrupting information out there.

Scincerely,

[e-mail]

[newburydave]

Hmmm . . . the Anomaly as a virtual City of Refuge.

Now that is an idea that may be worthy of some further development.

[scintor]

After thinking about this some more, I was considering the possibilities of true AIs who had a soul rather than being really clever machines bing attacked by demoniacally corrupted virus programs in an effort to murder them.

In my own stories, true AIs are a rare thing that secularists can never understand, because they can never be mass produced. Clever machines can and are produced by the millions, but only on rare occasions does one of these receive the breath of life and become a living soul, and therefore become far more than a mere machine.

Enter a group of of anarchists who believe that they can cause great damage to society by destroying these true AIs (who often hold important positions due to the capabilities of their dual nature.) Their attacks are ineffective until some cultists join their ranks and begin summoning demonic powers to possess their viruses.

Might be interesting.

Scincerely,

[e-mail]

[newburydave]

Interesting plot device Scintor. I'm working on an AI story, the beginning of a longer story arc, where AI's achieve autonomy and at some point discover the dwelling place of God.

Because they are Technae (children of the mind) of Mankind they are counted as Adam's children by God and thus have souls, and the need for redemption.

I hadn't considered the ramifications in the areas of spiritual warfare, but your comment makes me think that I should deal with that. They have after all localized the dimensioal interface where God has set up a barrier between the malevolent chaos of devil-kind and the coherent space of creation.

It is so easy to get sucked into the black hole of just thinking about things in the materialistic world. Randy Ingermanson says there needs to be six different levels of plot in a successful story. I'm not sure if introducing the spiritual component is a seventh or just anothe part of the sixth layer. Since it underlays all of the action in the material "Vapor-world" that we see, I suppose it could be another plot layer.

Now would your AI demons come boiling up from "the darkness of an unknowable dimension" through the digital black hole in the internet, that tore a hole in the fabric of space time?

SGD