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The SubEtha Net
Spike Anderson is sorry he can't catch up on a whole month's backlog Started conversation Dec 4, 2001
I've been doing some thinking recently...no, really, go ahead and say it, I know you're thinking it -Really, Spike? Congratulations!- There. Out of your system? Good, let's go on. 
More specifically, I've been thinking about DNA's vision. We all know he was an absolute genius, but half the time it was intentional great writing, and half the time it was thay type of genius that it takes a third party to point out. That's what the Guide was. The original idea, he has said many times, was just a literary trick to serve as a premise and then to keep the story interesting. It was never meant to be this. He didn't realize what he was predicting all along until after he had finished. The same is true of 42. He chose it specifically to be a random, unimportant number. Oh, well.
So maybe that's not all he got right. Maybe there's more to extract from the story of the Guide than we have so far. I am not the first to envision the SubEtha Net in real life. What we need is not technology, but support. We have cell phone towers. My idea is to define an SEP (SubEtha Protocol). The Guide could run on a palmtop-style platform with a larger screen. Think about it: never without the guide. It's DNA's true dream for h2g2.
If anyone happens to read this *and* have thoughts on it, don't hesitate to reply.
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