"Robert A. Metzger - Perchance to Dream" - читать интересную книгу автора (Metzger Robert)

FUTURES NATURE|Vol 438|17 November 2005




Perchance to dream
Out of sight, out of mind.

My suit accesses the boy, allowing me to
in the lowest rungs of a Dreaming World,
Robert A. Metzger
see through his Ocs. There is no such
where the resource-challenged can only
thing as privacy in the Dreaming World тАФ
afford photon-based goods.
There is a place to trade, on the third level,
privacy inhibits the flow of commerce and
тАЬStealth suits are 20 years extinct,
antique hardware in exchange for real
Dreams. Perspective slips as I enter into
Grandpa,тАЭ he says, waving a hand at me.
food. But first I must walk this stretch of
the boy, his hands are now mine, adorned
тАЬIsolation, anonymity, individualism, all
the seventh level in order to reach the Up-
with jewels, gold rings, skin plastered with
such sad Dreams.тАЭ
Tube. The haze is thick, inquiry motes
morphing displays, sleeves of silk covering
My suit might be 20 years old, but it gets
swirling about me. I let them ask their
my arms. This is the world he experiences.
the job done. I run a diagnostic. I am emit-
questions but, as if in response, I inform
About me swirls frenzied motion and
ting nothing but a blast of infrared
them that they sample nothing but air. I
colours, bustling bodies loaded down with
through my rear radiator fins, my ultra-
study everything from long wavelength
packages, bright sun above, shops adorned
violet ionizers at exhaust ports shedding
radio to short ultraviolet spikes, sniffing
with wrought iron beckoning, and every-
any leaking DNA, and biometric compen-
the pheromone bouquet and sampling the
where blossoming wisteria.
sators continually randomizing my move-
organic debris. I do not transmit, do not
In front of me stands an old man тАФ