Stephenson, William

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A Cyborg Observes Oxford Circus  Cut the buildings, paste them into files, analyse the dance of pedestrians and vehicles.  Delete all zeroes of vacant space between till the scene’s compressed in memory.  In real time, pause the rain.  Select folders  zero to nineteen. Upload data.  Run routines  simultaneously with active sense-streams  till twenty intersections overlap.    Humans pour down Regent Street.  You perceive a shifting labyrinth of light, a fractal montage seven orders of complexity above the daubs on their signs and posters.   They see the city with gelatinous spheres,  lenses clouded with age, that squeeze reality  into ganglia the bandwidth of a pinhole camera.   Such primitive eyes drew your blueprint.  These infants are your creators.  So open sensors.   Adjust receptors.  Absorb the crowd's energy.   Recharge.  Save sensation as compassion.   Compose your mask.  Step among them.  

A Cyborg Observes Oxford Circus

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A Cyborg Observes Oxford Circus

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