The 8th Sphere
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m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y … m o n e y d e a d ( e l e c t r o n i c ) s p a c e ( e l e c t r i c t h i n k i n g e n ve l o p e ) Ocean of semiotic fetishes MONITOR PSYCHO-CHIPS Semiotic Döppelgänger Screen GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI) progress bar Icon Menus Buttons replacement of complex command language syntax by direct manipulation of the object of interest. The word ‘icon’ is more appropriate than programmers may realise. For like religious relics, computer icons are energy units, which focus the operative power of the machine into visible and manipulable symbols. Computer icons also remind us of the use of Hebrew letters in the Cabala or the use of alchemical and other signs by Renaissance magi like Giordano Bruno... such magic letters and signs were often objects of meditation (as they were in the logical diagrams of Raymond Llull); they were also believed to have operational powers. But electronic icons realise what magic signs in the past could only suggest, for electronic icons are functioning representations in computer writing (Bolter, Jay D. (1991) Writing space. The computer, hypertext, and the history of writing, Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. 53). MATERIAL INTERFACES TERMINAL keyboards mouse Joystick CONFIGURED IDENTITIES CONFIGURED USER problem solving decision making short and long term memory time perception Synchronization perception of motion perception of space CONFIGURED EMOTIONS CONFIGURED THINKING CONFIGURED WILLING managing the user’s sense of time. distant control and management of the thought processes of humans sense of ‘presence’ If human and machine were to coexist, though, they needed to function at some juncture at the same speed. Users have limited tolerance for delays in what they invoke. SOFTWARE OPERATING SYSTEM S I N G U L A R I T Y E L E C T R O N I C N I R V A N A E L E C T R O N I C H E L L the full immersion of the flesh into its virtual double. HARDWARE Machine T ype 8144 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) interface between the software and hardware Computer data storage microarchitecture Implementation of ISA on a processor In Singapore, many U.S. and other Multinational companies set up production of computer hardware, especially disk drives. In Taiwan, entrepreneurial local companies found opportunities supplying the major PC makers, beginning with simple parts and moving up to more sophisticated components, subassemblies, and final assembly of PCs and peripherals. Over time, labor-intensive activities were relocated to low-wage locations such as Thailand, Malaysia and China, with Singapore and Taiwan coordinating production in these sites and handling more sophisticated manufacturing processes at home. IBM, the world's largest computer manufacturer, is also the world's largest software company and the world's largest provider of information technology services. group of personal computer manufacturing companies who came together in 1988 to create the EISA bus in reaction to IBM's attempt to recapture control of the PC market Foxconn (Taiwan), anchored by the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is the largest manufacturer of electronics and computer components worldwide. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel- branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett- Packard; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo; the Xbox 360 for Microsoft,… ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (ASUS) (Taiwan). As of 26 November 2009 (2009 -11-26)[update], 29.2% of PCs sold in the previous 12 months worldwide came with an ASUS motherboard World’s largest software company World’s largest enterprise software company computational power : The power of a computer is its capacity to simulate other computers. One computer X is more powerful than computer Y if and only if X can simulate Y but Y cannot simulate X. Never insert a diskette that has no manufacturer’s seal into your PC. Never use a program borrowed from someone who does not practice digital hygiene to your own standards. Beware of software obtained from public bulletin boards . . . don’t execute programs sent in electronic mail—even your friends may have inadvertently forwarded a virus. DESIGN L i m i t s o f t h e w o r l d e l e c t r i f i e d c i v i l i z a t i o n DOUBLE logins, passwords apparatuses of capture Sprites (animated elements) 3D modelled bodies names, Loss of personal identity IDENTITIES SECURITIES IMMUNITIES user avatars data avatars "Contemporary neuroscience suggests the existence of fundamental algorithms by which all sensory transduction is translated into an intrinsic, brain-specific code. Direct stimulation of these codes within the human temporal or limbic cortices by applied electromagnetic patterns may require energy levels which are within the range of both geomagnetic activity and contemporary communication networks."(Dr Persinger, On the Possibility of Directly Accessing Every Human Brain by Electromagnetic Induction of Fundamental Algorithms) Input devices compose objects and user subjects to make them visible BRAND LEADERS SUPPLIERS SOFTWARE INDUSTRIES COMPONENTS MAKERS A s o u n d p a s s e s i n t o a m i c r o p h o n e a n d b e c o m e s a n e l e c t r i c c u r r e n t ; t h e c u r r e n t p a s s e s i n t o a c o n v e r t e r , a n d b e c o m e s a s t r e a m o f b i t s ; t h e b i t s t r e a m p a s s e s i n t o a h a r d d r i v e t o b e c o m e a p a t t e r n o f m a g n e t ic f i e ld s o n a s p in n i n g p l a tt e r. screen-based world view OUTPUT INPUT SOUL Incorporated Thinking Feeling Willing Control tables Program Counter (PC) INPUT “a” Interpreter Sub-routines Transformation of input values control the program flow sequential ordering registers bank of binary latches hygienic procedures output registers assembly line Acidic extraction of metals from complex mixtures Burning of wastes to isolate metals Acer BenQ LG Compal Quanta Intel Foxconn Technology Group John Buckley of Carbonfrootprint.com of Great Britain estimates that a Google search yields 1g to 10g of CO2. Personal computer operation per hour generates 40g to 80g of CO2 per hour. According to Wissner-Gross “Simple website viewing generates about 0.02g of CO2 per second. This rises about tenfold to about 0.2g of CO2 a second when viewing a website with complex images, animations or videos. Google Asus Intel Dell Microsoft Symantec SAP IBM Oracle Global supply chain services Quality assurance system Higher-tier suppliers Contract manufacturer requirements gathering and analysis architecture design coding and testing Integration Maintenance repairing line ageing line packing line testing line central processing unit (CPU) Random Access Memory (RAM) PC assembly & production line PC recycling workshops Computer distribution network consumer market Active components Mechanism components Reactive components Function components Other components testing line Component makers Global production network Global production network C om p u t e r i m m u n e s y s t e m s a f e c o m p u t i n g s e x u a l p r a c t i c e s i m p e n e t r a b l e m a s c u l i n e b o d y c o m p u t e r v i r us i l l e g a l w o r k e r s i n v a d e r s f o r e i g n c o d e s “prophylactic software” anti-virus software Flextronics Solectron Design and market products Management of suply- chain functions memory, chipset, LCD panel, CUP PCB, connector, switch capacitance, resistance, adaptator power supply, speaker, battery CD/DVDrom, hard disk, non electronic components Taiwanese computer industry Korean OEM/ODM companies Chinese computer industry IBM HP NEC Offshore production in China CONFIGURED PERCEPTIONS System audit Gang of Nine Process audit Final product audit Crawler Store server Repository Indexer Anchors URL resolver Barrels Doc index Links Page rank URL server Electromagnetic Döppelgänger Deep sleep : delta waves INTEROPERABILITY INTERCONNECTIVITY PANCOMPUTATION Credo The deepest level of physical reality is an infinitely complex network of infinitely powerful computers (call it the Network). Voodoo processor The Eighth Sphere The Eighth Sphere The Eighth Sphere The Eighth Sphere “the physical mechanism of individual resurrection is the emulation of each and every long- dead person –and their worlds –in the computers of the far future” (Tipler, The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead.New York: Anchor.1995: 14, 220). ELECTRO-SLEEP Power connector VGA monitor connector Voltage selection switch USB connector Keyboard connector Industrial animist system Knowledge government F i n a n c i a l s t r a t e g y D e f e n c e s t r a t eg y C u l t u r a l s t r a t e g y network of radio frequency identification (RFID) governmental monitoring systems economic monitoring systems network of mechanic automatons network of objects network of biologic automatons network of nothingness defence monitoring systems social monitoring systems medical monitoring systems environmental monitoring systems weather monitoring systems agricultural monitoring systems education monitoring systems transportation monitoring systems energy monitoring systems media monitoring systems THINGS-TO-THINGS COMMUNICATIONS THINGS-TO-PERSONS COMMUNICATION PERSON-TO-PERSON COMMUNICATION MACHINES-TO-MACHINES COMMUNICATION NETWORK OF INTERCONNECTED SUB-OBJECTS Brand leader Contract manufacturer Brand leader : Samsung Searcher Lexicon CD drive Operator Information Panel Power backplane Drive cage Power supply Cover Optional tape Drive Tape Drive space filler Microprocessor air Baffle Fan Bracket assembly Hard disk Drive backplane Hard disk drive all material things have some mental activity freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Electronic democracy Manual separation of products Society of spectacle Society of control T e c h n o - e v a n g e l i s m T r a n s h u m a n i s m The ALU is capable of performing two classes of operations: arithmetic and logic Arithmetic/logic unit (ALU) Primary storage Secondary storage Tertiary storage input registers Processor register or architectural registers Boolean logic Data registers Address registers Memory bus control unit interprets the program instructions Processor cache reduce the average time to access memory Instruction cache Data cache translation lookaside buffer All the machines on Earth, taken together, tend to form a single, vast organized mechanism. These machines begin to operate on themselves “thus accelerating and multiplying their own growth and forming a single gigantic network girdling the Earth”. It is the emergence of “a generalized nervous system, emanating from certain defined centers and covering the entire surface of the globe” . The Internet is an early version of this nervous system. o u t l a w s h a c k e r s t e r r o r i s t s Around 300 million computers have become obsolete in 2004. These computers are made up of four billion pounds of plastic, one billion pounds of lead, 1.9 million pounds of cadmium, 1.2 million pounds of chromium and 400,000 pounds of mercury. Semiconductor workers in Silicon Valley in California in the U.S. experience illness rates three times higher than manufacturing workers in other industries. Mexico USA Venezuela Brazil Chile Argentina Mexico Kenya Tanzania China Taiwan India Pakistan Egypt Thailand Malaysia Singapore Vietnam Philippines Indonesia e-waste areas Taipei- Hsinchu corridor disk drive industry Bengalore Delhi Silicon Valley disk drive industry electronics industry clusters of Guangdong province and the Shanghai area In Taoyuan, Taiwan, for example, more than 1,000 former employees who used to make television sets and semiconductors for electronic company RCA are reportedly suffering from cancer. The U.S. is said to export 50 to 80 percent of its e- waste to Asian countries, namely, China, Thailand, Singapore, India, and Pakistan. The Eighth Sphere The Eighth Sphere The Eighth Sphere The Eighth Sphere Bureau d’études, 2010 www.bureaudetudes.org
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ScreenGRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)
progress barIcon
MenusButtons
replacement of complex command language syntax by direct manipulation of the object of interest.
The word icon is more appropriate than programmers may realise. For like religious relics, computer icons are energy units, which focus the operative power of the machine into visible and manipulable symbols. Computer icons also remind us of the use of Hebrew letters in the Cabala or the use of alchemical and other signs by Renaissance magi like Giordano Bruno... such magic letters and signs were often objects of meditation (as they were in the logical diagrams of Raymond Llull); they were also believed to have operational powers. But electronic icons realise what magic signs in the past could only suggest, for electronic icons are functioning representations in computer writing (Bolter, Jay D. (1991) Writing space. The computer, hypertext, and the history of writing, Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. 53).
M AT E R I A L I N T E R F A C E S
T E R M I N A L
keyboards
mouse
Joystick
C O N F I G U R E D I D E N T I T I E SC O N F I G U R E D U S E R
problem solving
decision making
short and long term memory
time perception
Synchronization
perception of motionperception of space
CONFIGURED EMOTIONS
CONFIGURED THINKING
CONFIGUREDWILLING
managing the users sense of time. d i s t a n t c o n t r o l a n d m a n a g e m e n t o f t h e t h o u g h t p r o c e s s e s o f h u m a n s
sense of presence
If human and machine were to
coexist, though, they needed to
function at some juncture at the
same speed. Users have limited
tolerance for delays in what
they invoke.
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H A R D W A R E
Machine Type 8144
Instruct ion Set Architecture ( ISA)in ter face between the so f tware and hardware
Computer data s torage
microarchitectureImplementat ion o f I SA on a processor
In Singapore, many U.S. and other Multinational companies set up production of computer hardware, especially disk drives. In Taiwan, entrepreneurial local companies found opportunities supplying the major PC makers, beginning with simple parts and moving up to more sophisticated components, subassemblies, and final assembly of PCs and peripherals. Over time, labor-intensive activities were relocated to low-wage locations such as Thailand, Malaysia and China, with Singapore and Taiwan coordinating production in these sites and handling more sophisticated manufacturing processes at home.
IBM, the world's largest computer manufacturer, is also the world's largest software company and the world's largest provider of information technology services.
group of personal computer manufacturing companies who came together in 1988 to create the EISA bus in reaction to IBM's attempt to recapture control of the PC market
Foxconn (Taiwan), anchored by the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is the largest manufacturer of electronics and computer components worldwide. Among other things, Foxconn produces the Mac mini, the iPod, the iPad, and the iPhone for Apple Inc.; Intel-branded motherboards for Intel Corp.; various orders for American computer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard; the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 for Sony; the Wii for Nintendo; the Xbox 360 for Microsoft,
ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (ASUS) (Taiwan). As of 26 November 2009 (2009 -11-26)[update], 29.2% of PCs sold in the previous 12 months worldwide came with an ASUS motherboard
Worlds largest software company
Worlds largest enterprise software company
computational power :The power of a computer is its capacity to simulate other computers. One computer X is more powerful than computer Y if and only if X can simulate Y but Y cannot simulate X.
Never insert a diskette that has no manufacturers seal into your PC. Never use a program borrowed from someone who does not practice digital hygiene to your own standards. Beware of software obtained from public bulletin boards . . . dont execute programs sent in electronic maileven your friends may have inadvertently forwarded a virus.
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logins, passwords
apparatuses of captureSprites(animated elements)3D modelled bodies
names,
Loss of personal identity
IDENTITIES SECURITIES IMMUNITIES
user avatars
data avatars
"Contemporary neuroscience suggests
the existence of fundamental algorithms
by which all sensory transduction is
translated into an intrinsic,
brain-specific code. Direct stimulation of
these codes within the human temporal
or limbic cortices by applied
electromagnetic patterns may require
energy levels which are within the range
of both geomagnetic activity and
contemporary communication
networks."(Dr Persinger, On the
Possibility of Directly Accessing Every
Human Brain by Electromagnetic
Induction of Fundamental Algorithms)
Input devices compose objects and
user subjects to make them visible
B R A N D L E A D E R S S U P P L I E R S
S O F T W A R E I N D U S T R I E S
C O M P O N E N T S M A K E R S
A s o u n d p a s s e s i n t o a m i c r o p h o n e a n d b e c o m e s a n e l e c t r i c c u r r e n t ; t h e c u r r e n t p a s s e s i n t o a c o n v e r t e r , a nd b e c o m e s
a s t r e a m of b i t s ; t h e
b i t s t r e a m p a s s e s i n
t o a h a r d d r i v e t o b e
c o m e a p at t e r n o f m
a g n e t i c f ie l d s o n a
s p i n n i n g pl a t t e r .
screen-based world view
OUTPUT
INPUT
SOULIncorporated
ThinkingFeelingWilling
Control tables Program Counter (PC) INPUT a
Interpreter Sub-routines Transformation ofinput values
control the program flow sequential ordering
registersbank of binary latches
hygienic procedures
output registers
assembly line Acidic extraction of metals from complex mixtures
Burning of wastes to isolate metals
Acer
BenQ
LG
Compal
Quanta
Intel Foxconn Technology Group
John Buckley of Carbonfrootprint.com of Great Britain estimates that a Google search yields 1g to 10g of CO2. Personal computer operation per hour generates 40g to 80g of CO2 per hour.According to Wissner-Gross Simple website viewing generates about 0.02g of CO2 per second. This rises about tenfold to about 0.2g of CO2 a second when viewing a website with complex images, animations or videos.
Google
Asus
Intel
QUANTA
Dell
Microsoft Symantec
SAP
IBM
Oracle
Global supplychain services
Quality assurancesystem
Higher-tiersuppliers
Contract manufacturer
requirements gathering and analysis architecture design coding and testing Integration Maintenance
repairing line ageing line packing linetesting line
central processing unit (CPU)
Random AccessMemory (RAM)
PC assembly & production line
PC recyclingworkshops
Computer distribution network
consumer market
Active components
Mechanism components
Reactive components
Function components
Other components
testing line
Componentmakers
Global productionnetwork
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prophylactic software
a n t i - v i r u s s o f t w a r e
FlextronicsSolectron
Design and market products
Management of suply-chain functions
memory, chipset, LCD panel, CUP
PCB, connector, switch
capacitance, resistance, adaptator
power supply, speaker, battery
CD/DVDrom, hard disk, non electronic components
Taiwanese computer industry
Korean OEM/ODM companies
Chinesecomputer industry
IBM
HP
NEC
Offshore prod
uction
in China
CONFIGURED PERCEPTIONS
System audit
Gang of Nine
Process audit
Final product audit
C r a w l e r S t o r e
s e r v e r
R e p o s i t o r y
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B a r r e l sD o c i n d e xL i n k s
P a g e r a n k
U R L s e r v e r
ElectromagneticDppelgnger
Deep sleep : delta waves
INTEROPERABILITY
INTERCONNECTIVITY
PANCOMPUTATIONCredo The deepest level of physical reality is an infinitely complex network of infinitely powerful computers (call it the Network).
Voodoo
processor
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the physical mechanism of individual resurrection is the emulation of each and every long-dead person and their worlds in the computers of the far future (Tipler, The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead.New York: Anchor.1995: 14, 220).
ELECTRO-SLEEP
Power connector
VGA monitor connector
Voltage selection switch
USB connector
Keyboard connector
Industrial
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n e t w o r k o f r a d i o f r e q u e n c y i d e n t i f i c a t i o n ( R F I D )
governmental monitoring systemseconomic monitoring systems
network of mechanic automatonsnetwork of objects
network of biologic automatonsnetwork of nothingness
defence monitoring systemssocial monitoring systemsmedical monitoring systemsenvironmental monitoring systemsweather monitoring systemsagricultural monitoring systemseducation monitoring systemstransportation monitoring systemsenergy monitoring systemsmedia monitoring systems
T H I N G S - T O - T H I N G S C O M M U N I C A T I O N S
T H I N G S - T O - P E R S O N S C O M M U N I C A T I O N
P E R S O N - T O - P E R S O N C O M M U N I C A T I O N
M A C H I N E S - T O - M A C H I N E S C O M M U N I C A T I O N
N E T W O R K O F I N T E R C O N N E C T E D S U B - O B J E C T S
Brand leader
Contract manufacturerBrand leader
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S e a r c h e r
L e x i c o nCD drive
OperatorInformationPanel
Powerbackplane
Drivecage
Powersupply
Cover
OptionaltapeDrive
Tape Drivespace filler
Microprocessorair Baffle
Fan Bracket assembly
Hard diskDrive backplane
Harddisk drive
all material things havesome mental activity
freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
Electronicdemocracy
Manual separation of products
Society of spectacle
Society of control
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Arithmetic/logic unit (ALU)
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Secondary storage
Tertiary storage
input registersProcessor registeror architectural registers
Boolean logic
Data registers
Address registers
Memory bus
control unitinterprets the program instructions
Processor cachereduce the average time to access memory
Instruction cache
Data cache
translation lookaside buffer
All the machines on Earth, taken together, tend to
form a single, vast organized mechanism. These
machines begin to operate on themselves thus
accelerating and multiplying their own growth and
forming a single gigantic network girdling the
Earth. It is the emergence of a generalized
nervous system, emanating from certain defined
centers and covering the entire surface of the
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Around 300 million computers have become obsolete in 2004. These computers are made up of four billion pounds of plastic, one billion pounds of lead, 1.9 million pounds of cadmium, 1.2 million pounds of chromium and 400,000 pounds of mercury.
Semiconductor workers in Silicon Valley in California in the U.S. experience illness rates three times higher than manufacturing workers in other industries.
Mexico
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Chile
Argentina
MexicoKenya
Tanzania
China
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e-waste areas
Taipei- Hsinchu corridor
disk drive industry
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Silicon Valley
disk drive industry
electronics industry clusters of Guangdong province and the Shanghai area
In Taoyuan, Taiwan, for example, more than 1,000 former employees who used to make television sets and semiconductors for electronic company RCA are reportedly suffering from cancer.
The U.S. is said to export 50 to 80 percent of its e-waste to Asian countries, namely, China, Thailand, Singapore, India, and Pakistan.
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