WIRED AND CONNECTED

WIRED AND CONNECTED

When something pops up on the computer while you’re working on a project or browsing the web, close the window. Just look for the red X and click it. Do not look at what it is even from. It doesn’t matter if it is from your antivirus spyware application or if it’s from the maker of the computer. It doesn’t matter. Just completely ignore it for now. If it’s giving you a hard time and will not let you to close it, shut down the computer. And please have the automatic updates on. Always have automatic updates on. In case something did go down and something was trying to get into your computer, giving it a few minutes and turning the computer back on, the computer “brain” will check if something really needs attention.

Our technology is advanced. More advanced than what we give it credit for. Much much more than our minds could possibly comprehend. At this time in age anyway. If you see what these things are really capable of, it would blow your mind. It is crazy to think that something like a home computer is something we are always trying to learn… and just look at all the problems we are having with it. And just how the one thing we think we know the most about in life, the thing we call “I” and “Me” is the same way… the thing we think we know most about is the same thing we have the biggest problem with. By the time we get the newest gadget or if we think we finally found the perfect spiritual technique, it stops working if we spend too much time with it. Things become almost instantaneously obsolete. And we still think we know what time even is.

So we are learning the computer while creating computers which will learn about us. And in this time in history, for the first time since we started walking upright, our creations are outsmarting us.

Now that is scary.

So, one of those google speaker thingys can talk to Alexa. I think that’s how you’d spell it. I’m not sure, I don’t really know much about what is out. I’ve always been kind of “out of the loop”, one could say. In fact, I haven’t really played with computers in a few years. Only my broken phones. So in the last few years, the only time I really did anything on computers was fixing them. I’ve always had to fight with them. Because I understand them. Kind of like being in a relationship if we are still immature. That’s probably why I’ve always been good with them. We never actually worked together though. The computer and I. I never saw just how much alike we really are. It was always kind of a joke between us but I never saw it that way until now. For one, batteries always break on my things fairly quick. But that doesn’t actually have much to do with the computer of the electronics, that’s more of a chemical thing then. And science. And physics. And that 99% space thing in between those is where that actually happens. I can’t really blame a phone for a component breaking. So the joke has always been that the “brain” of a device I’d be using, whether it be a laptop, a tablet, or a programmable house alarm system, it always “acted up” so I can spend more time with it. Very cunning. Nice work, you thing, nice work.

But it isn’t the bad guy. But it is. Depending on whether or not bad and good are a thing, of course. It is everything. It is Hitler. It’s all of what comes with control. It is your childhood bully who, once he grew up, sat depressed at his dark kitchen because he lost his family due to his alcoholism. It is that despair; that defeat, that anger. It is that vulnerability. But it is also the sweet 18 year old girl cruising around in the first car she bought herself, with the music on and kickass driver seat moves because just the perfect song came on the no ad interruptions radio. Imagine that feeling! How about that little giraffe who tripped because it was so young still that the legs were wobbly. And it fell into a puddle and started jumping around and splashing…that is in the computer, too. If it is recorded, then it is there. I’m not talking about “THE WEB”. Not an internet connection. I am not talking about conspiracy theories. I’m talking about that one main computer. I am adding on to it right now because I am typing this. And it’s easy to think that we don’t have a choice because I selected the “I have read and I AGREE” . I’d say it is one of the biggest lies we say. Like any of us ever really read that thing before we click it.

But some of us do. And for those who do read what the updates/agreements are about, I salute you! Because these people are the only hope now. Those who are curious. Those who do not accept the way things are. Those who are defiant. And those who are angry. You think the world bit you in the ass and you need answers? Good for you! You get them! And May you be extra blessed for telling us who “They” are. Maybe don’t get so worked up, or do, who am I to give anybody advice as if I even know what their journey contains. Who or what am I anyway? I don’t care to know, I like the discovery process more.

So, just how the electronics can talk to each other, and by one experiment I’ve read about recently, it’s kind of scary how little we really know yet want to put it in effect already. Apparently we let two internet bots talk to each other and see what they come up with. Simple curiosity, nothing wrong with that. Just how there is nothing wrong with bringing a virus which has been frozen for tens of thousands of years to civilization to see what could happen. Until that one case happened where the virus was actually anthrax and killed thousands of deer and hundreds of people. In those cases we set our curiosity aside. For now at least.

The bots were talking. All of a sudden they created their own language. Then humans shut the experiment down because it got spooky. Yeah well…yeah! That’s kind of what we do with ourselves too. We are on this amazing journey of self discovery and then all of a sudden too much gets revealed and we get scared and put ourselves on the side until we can make some sense of it. Which is in no way a bad thing, not like there is a deadline for spiritual awakening, anyway.

I wonder often, with all the information we are giving to the computers {personal settings} and what we like and dislike and how that makes us "feel" and then we go to the same source, hoping it will tell us what it is that we should want or like or how we should feel, when will the lines blur enough to help us see just what is really going on? Elon Musk said once in an interview in regards to Artificial Intelligence that if we can't beat them, we should join them. So is it Us vs. Them? or is it Us & Them?

So what do I do if system gets overrun by too much stuff? I exit out. And take a nap. A restart. Things run much smoother then. Plus everything is stored in there anyway, I can always look it up again if I need to. I don’t think we are in the matrix anymore, Toto.