Year 2 - and you probably missed year 1

In a holographic memory device, a laser beam is split in two, and the two resulting beams interact in a crystal medium to store a holographic recreation of a page of data.

It won't be much longer now. The first year of the war finally ended. Just 9 more to go. The real slugging will start in 2010. This year was just a shot over the bow compared to what rhetoric and tactics will surface between 2010 and 2013. I've been looking forward to and forecasting this war since the year 2000.

The death of reading and writing is the fallout of the war. That's why people will go out fighting to the death. They want to defend the honor of reading and writing. I will say it has served us well over the last 3 millenia. But, it is in its death throes. Civilization made some quantum leaps in technology in the last 50 years that will make reading and writing so cumbersome and slow that they will become useless. Who wants to take the long route to do things in this modern world?

So, to those who would retain the traditions of the past, I salute your determination. But, like dionsaurs dying in a bog from which they cannot extricate themselves, I also say, "Sorry you have chosen to stay on the ground that will kill you." It's time to move on. The next stage in civilization is here already. If I want to join it, I just need to turn on the computer. It will take me anywhere in the world I want to go. Its language is numbers and letters, but mainly pictures. It's presentation is not in chapters, but in web pages. Right now there is a mix of numbers, letters, and pictures. But, over the course of the next 9 years of this 10 year war (2007-2017), the mix will include fewer and fewer letters, more numbers, more pictures. And the pictures will evolve to the next stage too. Holographs will at some point near 2017 begin to have a growing significance.

There's plenty of evidence of what is happening, but I'll save that for the subject of future blogs. I'll leave on the note of some friendly advice. If you start feeling stuck around your feet, you feel the world is moving on without you, move away from the bog or get someone to throw you a rope to drag you out. Otherwise you will be found in a few 100 years and your bones will be gathered as relics for a museum.