The Black Mirror(Technology)

In occultist traditions, the black mirror was an object used by adapts for the divining of information that otherwise was inaccessible. (AKA Scrying, amongst other practices.)

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As for the interest of this mythical object in this blog, I use it as a correlative to technology.

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Computers are material objects used as processors for information otherwise inaccessible. This information is nothing more than mere abstractions encoded in another dimensional space. The other-dimensional space, of course, is the internet.

A computer initially was designed to replicate and or improve human processes. A closed-circuit machine without a large potential to change or learn outside of what the original Programmers/Users could add to it.

Then, the advent of the internet. The loop expanded exponentially, and the number of new potentials increased with that expansion.

The more software/hardware interface and integration that is created, the more easily accessed this extradimensional space is becoming. The more machines that are fed off of the E.S, the greater the potentials are for interactions, both human and machine alike.

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When I think of this extra-dimensional space, I always reflect on how things grow in this material plain of existence. I came across this while researching for this blog, and for a moment I got the sense that I am not alone. Here's what I think of

Here's a Visualization of internet interplanetary routing paths.

Visualization of Internet routing paths

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Until recently, I had no idea how information was transmitted from place to place. A friend of mine who works as an IT perked my interest on the topic of information transmission when he told me that the company he works for was doing an overhaul on their servers.

He told me that the fiber-optic connectors were not working correctly. As it was, knowing nothing on the subject, I indulged my curiosity by doing a google search on fiber-optic wires. I read how fiber-optic cables are tested, by using lasers. using light as a means of transmitting information.

I am in the least to say a little perplexed how information is transmitted through light, and this has lead to a long thread of interest.

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How does a cellphone, for instance, transmit the sound of my voice?

Sure, the analogy of holding one of two tin cans connected by a string is simple enough to understand but, how does this happen when using a phone? What and where is the string?

I pondered the value for a bit, I read some on the topic and I let the concept rest for a time.

Then one day my kids were watching the show "Storybots" and suddenly the light turned on in my head again. Thanks, kids and "Storybots".

Well, unfortunately, I couldn't find this video with animation. If you have Netflix and have an opportunity to watch it, the explanation is really good. Simple, concise, and to the point.

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I find it incredibly intriguing how the process of information flows. From the time your voice leaves your mouth, it moves as a vibrating frequency and when it hits the microphone of the receiving device, this sound is then ingested and turned into a long sequence of processes unseen, transferred from here to there, and there to here.

It is a light being turned off and on, translated into code, broken into 0's and 1's until it's reassembled on the other end of the line. Mind-blown.....

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We use a computer to interface with information much like a black mirror is used to interface with the beyond, as an object for breaching through to another dimensional space.

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Universal principles dictate equal exchange take place in all interactions.

There are many kinds of exchanges taking place on the tangible material side of the conversation.

The internet is not free. Everyone knows this, but I think few people really understand just how much the exchange is worth.

It's aiding to the breaching and adjoining of otherwise separate realms into each other, as well as the future of technology and it's connected hardware. It seems proper from this point of view that we as a species are not exempt from the evolutionary leap, considering we are the ones consuming the product of it.

The consumption of holdable and wearable technology, I learned recently is referred to as an augmentation. That's what this guy is talking about

The changing forms and interactions in the current state of our technology will lead to more new technology being developed, until as Terrence McKenna said: "We become unrecognizable to ourselves".