Deep Web?

Let me do some maths today. I have been an editor of the EP website since the beginning of 2007. We write one or two stories per day, let us make it average: one and a half, times three years, be it 200 working days per year (minus holidays etc.), and we get: 1.5 x 3 x 200 = 900. (Correct me if I am wrong – have never been really into figures, square roots and all this stuff). This makes it nine hundred pages, more or less of a standard A4 content. Do you think the same? Yes, it could be few good books (at least in size). Ok, I am one of these folks who like the idea of ever publishing a very own book.

Louis Montoyer (1749, Mariemont, Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium – 5 June 1811, Vienna) was an 18th century Belgian-Austrian architect, principally active in Brussels and Vienna. Mr Montoyer was so generous and gave his name to the street where your dear editors spend their busiest hours. More then two centuries later his buildings are still around in Brussels. But what will happen with all the megabytes of texts that saturate the internet in every minute? Where will go all the blog entries, tweets, threads, chats, emails, reviews and comments flowing the Net with the constant clicking of qwerty, azerty, katakana, hiragana, Braille, quertz and Mandarin simplified keyboards? Just imagine:

AD 3010. Space ARCHEO Service report, subject: recovery of an ancient memory bank; cultural profiling: …our services managed to decipher partially erased data on the magnetic disc cylinder excavated from the debris in the BXL LUX quarter. Layer age: around year 2000. On the basis of the content of the best preserved folder named SPAM (Ju.k M.il), our anthropologists assume that around the year 2000 the humanity was preoccupied with constant distance and time measurement. Over 60% of the messages constitute a commercial offer of synthetic chemicals that are supposed to alter sensory perception of length, expressed in inches, probably a sort of simple hallucinogen drug. Blue, rhomboidal shape and large variety of synonyms for this substance that appear in the communications seems to confirm the drug hypothesis.  All of the data samples show that humans who created these inscriptions, univocally tended to prefer longer distances over the shorter ones. This fact may explain a progressive alienation of the human being documented by the authors of the last millennium.

The remaining 40 per cent of the messages retrieved from the data cylinder talk about replication of time measurement. Chronometric ROLFX instruments in the form of a wristwatch are the replicas of the master watch. The mother watch represents the most probably a certain form of feudal power articulated by the large crown ornament. The same royal ornament appears on the replica models, very likely as a complementing symbol of fiefdom. Our scientists believe that by setting the exact time on its replicas, the holder of the master ROLFX device could control life activity of the remaining members of his guild. Furthermore, data analysis has not shown any sort of cooptation by force. The membership in the ROLFX replicants guild was voluntary and even slightly elitist, due to the relatively high financial contribution to be paid in order to own the ROLFX replica…