According to James Farmer of Incorporated Subversion, I believe at some point I poetically described the online environment as “cascading, realtional, asynchronous call-call-response ripples . . . more like raindrops rippling in concentric circles, interfering, intermingling, comingling, and then becoming still (or at least invisible to the naked eye) until reanimated (or amplified) by new rain drops . . .”
“. . . Without the energy of the rain, the water returns to balance. The Internet, like the pond, is merely a neutral solution in which things (sound, light, color, dye, etc) can be suspended or introduced. Without external energy, entropy takes over and then, to return to my analogy, the pond is again a placid mirror, glassy and neutral.” Cool.
