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The
Prophet
of @ is my
online alter ego.
He
is
first and formost
a
hack
Southern California
prophet
who periodically
makes
virtual and
real
appearences
at which
time
he makes prophecies
about
the future
of
technology.
This is the first prophecy that the Prophet of @ made: "In the future, you will not answer the phone, you will be the phone." As with all the Prophet of @'s prophecies, they are preceded by a mundane encounter with a piece of technology. In this instance, the Prophet of @ was waiting to catch a plane to New York and he observed several young businessmen with glowing and blinking "hands free" cell phones growing out of their ears. And thus, sprung the prophecy that in the future you will not answer the phone, you will be the phone. Origins of the Prophet of @ The Prophet of @ came into being in 1999, the year of the Y2K bug, the year that great waves of millenial doom filled the airwaves and many normally level-headed industry types were predicting the death of the Net, the death of millions of avatarians, the death of e commerce, and even the death of all technology-based societies on earth. It was in this year of steadily building hystery over the Y2K bug that the Prophet of @ joined the growing legions of prognosticators, doomsayers, psychics, |
