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=== The Onworld=== | === The Onworld=== | ||
Online — the “[[onworld|Onworld]]” — is unilateral: one-to-many, deterministic, delineated, rigid, scaled, binary, definitive, eliminative and final. | Online — the “[[onworld|Onworld]]” — is unilateral: one-to-many, deterministic, delineated, rigid, scaled, binary, definitive, eliminative, decontextualised and final. | ||
Like the code is it made out of, it is exact, precise, and ''machined''. | Like the code is it made out of, it is exact, precise, and ''machined''. | ||
It has, therefore, zero-tolerance. “Tolerance” implies sloppiness, ambiguity and weakness. The Onworld is ''digital''; tolerance is ''analogue''. | It has, therefore, zero-tolerance. “Tolerance” implies sloppiness, ambiguity and weakness. The Onworld is ''digital''; tolerance is ''analogue''. | ||
All of history is presented as it was: unexplained, unfinessed, uncontextualized to the present. The onworld remembers, obsesses about, and continually ''judges'' its own history. | |||
The Onworld consists in, and of, [[data]]. Data is of the past. Irony: despite its apparent hyper-modernity, the [[onworld|Onworld]] is mechanistic, [[Finite and Infinite Games|finite]] and historical: it is not futuristic, but ''backward looking''. | The Onworld consists in, and of, [[data]]. Data is of the past. Irony: despite its apparent hyper-modernity, the [[onworld|Onworld]] is mechanistic, [[Finite and Infinite Games|finite]] and historical: it is not futuristic, but ''backward looking''. | ||
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The Offworld asks us to apply our imaginations, open-mindedly: to be constructive: to form alliances, to learn, to create excellent outcomes, using whatever criteria for “excellent” then appeal to whoever happens to be about. | The Offworld asks us to apply our imaginations, open-mindedly: to be constructive: to form alliances, to learn, to create excellent outcomes, using whatever criteria for “excellent” then appeal to whoever happens to be about. | ||
It continually updates, finesses, and a recontextualises what has gone before. The blind alleys of history are quickly written over and he raised from the landscape. The triumphs of history are kept and venerated. The off world forgives, or forgets, history. | |||
The Offworld is ''human'', ''[[Infinite game|infinite]]'' and forward-looking. It is ''futuristic''. Being ''human'', it offers scope for redemption, reinvention, and reconfiguration. | The Offworld is ''human'', ''[[Infinite game|infinite]]'' and forward-looking. It is ''futuristic''. Being ''human'', it offers scope for redemption, reinvention, and reconfiguration. | ||