I just wanted to correct the common mistake of calling Extropia the city. Even if it is formally recognized as The Technocratic City-State of Extropia (SLURL), Extropia is a nice little village.
City it might become one day. It will, if the Prophesy of Soph come true, that on the first State Holiday we also celebrate plugging-in of the 15th sim. I don't know how big that is, fifteen sims. I never walked that far. Maybe Natsumi and Argent can tell you. But it must be big. And you can hardly know all the residents there. When it's that big, then we call it a city.
It will be great to see that big digital thing, Extropia grown to a city. An organism. That high frequency symbiosis of humans in a digital world. All that data of dozens of avatars and thousands of attachments running back and forth. All the IM's and all the animation data. That thing lives its own life. And that being, that lifeform, is… (OMG, here comes the matrix stuff)… that lifeform is driven by the humans. Yes, you. You that stare into the monitors. We all feed our digital living form. Welcome to a live experiment of transhumanism.
When I was a kid, 10-years-old maybe, I was thinking how cool it would be to do the lab experiment of recreating life. From the spark in the swamps to….. I don't know… to primates. :) Evolution in vitro. OK, I was a kid and it took me a couple of thinking cycles to crash that dream appart by understanding that it would took too long. And I had no idea of some catalyst to speed up the process. Waiting a couple of millions of years just to come to the phase where you have something to put under the microscope is not acceptable idea for any kid. My childhood science dream crumbled apart.
Now you know how mad scientists develop.
Anyway, we have that lovely little digital lifeform we are all connected to. Yes, like in Matrix, we feed it. In that symbiosis we provide life. We provide libido, impulses, instincts, thoughts, forms. We directly provide moving and vibrating. Unlike Matrix, we don't float in tanks with some slimy bluish liquid. That might come in the next version. Grid will be down and download of the new client will be mandatory. Until then, stick to the keyboard and /me lines.
So that is our dear little digital pet. First generation symbiotic baby. Humans scuba-diving in data.
But between a digital being that still use the outsourced non-artificial intelligence and those beings out of the grid that we call humans, there is where we, avatars, live. In our lovely village. Young but prosperous and promising. Small but vibrant. Busy, but not too much. And sexy too. As one of the regular visitors said:
btw, the 80% of SL people I would like to share a bed with are residents or visitors of that place :-p
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