Hi Michael,
Thanks for the enthusiastic response:))
Perhaps an illustrated lecture...
but I haven't given up on literally implementing the GTMN as proposed.
It would really require buy-in of a significant network of 'posties' -
the question of 'posties'' renumeration would need to be resolved. And
there are a couple of really tricky protocols such as protocol d)
breastfeeding
- there are ethical questions after all in asking a nursing mother to
convey a message to her child at such a young age. Perhaps she would
want to limit the kinds of messages she conveyed in this way.
:)Ruth
On 3 Feb 2007, at 10:01, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
This is just plain great.
Kind of Borgesian but with a more down to earth
satirical edge...
I would love to see this as a movie, an illustrated
lecture...
m.
--- Ruth Catlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Proposal for the Galapagos Tortoise Messaging
Network
Legitimate Transfer Protocols
Legitimate Transfer Protocols for use by the
Galapagos Tortoise
Messaging Network are categorised as follows:-
a) those authorised by the head of state, b) those
referred to in myth
and legend, c) those recommended by W3C
http://www.w3.org/, d)
breastfeeding, e) telepathy, f) fabulous ones, g)
those employing
trained or wild animals, h) those that are included
in this
classification, i) those accompanied by a quickness
of breath, j) those
that transmit in an instant to an infinite number of
recipients, k)
those that can be described in diagrams created
using computer
software, l) others, m) those that have just sent
unsolicited
advertisements to a huge database of individuals n)
those that are so
slow that the recipient assumes them to be faulty.
(1)
Contemporary digital messaging services
Contemporary digital messaging services are sold for
their speed, ease
of use and ‘real-time’ communication between the
sender and
recipient.(2) The nature of the message is
constrained by the protocols
developed to facilitate business and other socially
acceptable
exchanges. The transfer protocol and the message
that is sent are
treated as distinct and independent from one
another. Any unpredicted
alteration (embellishment or partial destruction) of
a message in
transit is considered a failure of protocol.
Conduits and protocols are
the trusted chaperones of messages that might
otherwise be promiscuous,
visceral, dissipated, loving or useful in a way that
has not already
been determined. It is supposed that the ideal
conditions in which
‘free’ messaging can take place, is across secure,
frictionless
apolitical conduits. ‘A Free Network? is defined by
what its users can
do with it, rather than the particular technology it
is built on’.(3)
GTMN
GTMN challenges this instrumental approach to
contemporary Western
communication. Opposing the culture of instant
communications, it
reaches backwards and forwards through time to
promote slow concerns
amongst friends. It guards against fast solutions to
slow burning
personal or community problems that may require a
subtle shift of
behaviour and attitudes in individuals or groups. By
aggregating the
qualities and effects of 3 GTMN transfer protocols,
employed in relay,
each message is infused with a cocktail of
life-force particular to its
modes of delivery.
* Communication is unpredictable in its
behaviour as well as the
effects on the sender, the message, the network and
the recipient.
* The message may be a long time in transit.
* Success of communication is variably
dependent on the sender’s
ingenuity, favourable conditions and the recipient’s
openness to the
message and the form that it takes.
* All messages undergo some physical
reconstitution/translation.
* The message and the medium may merge and
exchange roles.
How it works
* A GTMN device randomly selects 3 protocols
from the 14 categories
of legitimate GTMN transport protocols (see top)
These may piggy-back
on existing transit systems.
* The sender devises a way of ensuring
successful interfacing
between the 3 stages of the message’s delivery
* The message is sent
* The message is mutated through time space and
matter
* After some time the message may be received
GTMN
supplies the devices for randomly selecting 3
protocols for sending
messages and takes no responsibility for content
contained in messages.
GTMN makes no claims of fitness for purpose or for
the unforeseen
consequences of GTmessaging to senders or recipients
or third parties.
NOTES:
1) Adapted from J.L. Borges’ categorisation scheme
of an ancient
Chinese Encylopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of
Benevolent
Knowledge, as quoted by Kevin Kelly, Out of Control
2) MSN® Messenger for Mac version 4.0.1 offers
‘rapid response times’.
Emoticons let ‘your know how you really feel’ along
with ‘new security
features that keep pace with your need to share
ideas in real time.’
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=msnmessenger
3) Free Networks?.org is a volunteer cooperative
association dedicated
to education, collaboration, and advocacy for the
creation of Free
Networks?. http://www.freenetworks.org
4) Slowness and Networks This article starts to
explore various
scenarios involving piggy-backing on
less-than-instant transit systems
http://www.test.org.uk/archives/000278.html
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Anyone want to help me realise this?
: ))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))Ruth
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