Now forgotten, analog kyberspace preceded cyberspace, finicky but promising: Black projects routed gold wires directly into the brain.
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Some successes are documented, like one hive of eight humans and one octopus (needed for routing). But it was immobile and incomprehensible.
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Turns out, small hives quickly boostrap into posthumanity. Only large, slow ones are tractable.
And then there's the self-mindwipe problem
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kyberspace aesthetic: golden wires and flesh, cinema projectors crossed with punchcard looms, people&animals wired intimately into machinery
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the smell of sweat, fear, blood & machine oil in a nuclear bunker
hiveminds insane from isolation, seeking to escape through hijacked radio
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