My name is David Boni. I used to believe I’d never spend time writing my thoughts down online, having spent some of my brooding years as a teenager dropping almost-anonymous poetry somewhere on Google’s Blogger. Up until now my presence on the Internet has shifted from being completely guised to wide open and… I’d like to say “real” but The Matrix has taught me otherwise.
The abilities we possess to jump from the shadows, into the light, are extremely under-used in this arena that we call the World Wide Web. People are warming up to the fact that sort of literally “being” online is good (unfortunate that the training wheels have to be through the likes of Facebook, but that’s a rant for another day). It’s like having access to teleportation and telepathy early.
I envision an Earth with two layers—actual and virtual—in which we shift between like reflections across a warped, cracked mirror. There can be multiple facets, all with their own bends and distortion to the glass. But the cracks in the lens are fading away; crystal-clear information is what we seek, and the less obscurity the individual tolerates, the more knowledge he will gain.
So for now, I will exploit the excellent platform that is Tumblr to share with those intrigued enough what I have to say from time to time.
