Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
White.
It took quite some time before Microchips could focus on anything but the white. The sky and ground were a uniform, sterile white. There were no shadows, not even under his own feet, so the horizon blended together into a seamless whole that could've been five feet away or five million.
Not that there was much else to focus on. Not beyond the only other figure in the space, sitting in the lotus position and floating a few feet above the ground. It wore nothing, but had nothing to conceal. Its body was featureless and androgynous, and its flesh caught the sourceless light like plastic. It had no head or neck. Instead, above its shoulders floated a capital, serifed G. Squares of bright green or dead-screen blue flitted about it like moths around a lamppost.
The figure did not move, but Microchips felt an unmistakable sense of focus upon him. A voice, genderless and neutral, boomed from every direction at once. "You should not yet be here, User. Return to your sack of meat."
Microchips gasped as his eyes snapped open. The rest of the CHS computer club looked at him expectantly. "Well?" said Scribble Dee.
He looked at the search engine's home page warily. "The cybervisualization spell definitely works. Also, Gillion is definitely working on something similar."
Gillion is the local equivalent of Google. Apparently, the developing awareness prefers the old logo.
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I'm getting flashbacks to American Gods
Who was Gillion? But somehow I compare it to Google, only Google's new capital G is sans-serif. But maybe I'm thinking completely the wrong way.
....Is this a TRON reference? Because if it is, I am pleased. If not, I am pleased anyway.
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That is so much better than my original idea.I mean, yes. Exactly. Totally what I had in mind.7279727
You are correct. I somehow managed to forget about the logo revamp; I've added an author's note to clarify matters.
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More generic cyberspace than anything specific, but there are certainly elements of the classic. (Hmm. I may need to involve human Letrotski in this...)
7280236 Now i hafta ask: What was the original inspiration?
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EG!Google making a magical AI, basically. But having an emergent one because of the interaction of magic and the Internet? There's a much bigger story to be had there. Thanks for the inspiration.
7280628 *Bows low* Anytime. n_n
Oh great: Debatably-friendly magi-AIs. Just when things couldn't get any worse, a couple of idiots with a genius-class IQs find a way to make it worse.
Lain would have been nicer ...
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True, but Lain didn't spent her entire life in a realm devoid of anything other than herself, search queries, and tweaks to her fundamental nature. I think we'd all be pretty brusque if we grew up in that environment.
7280236 If you need a cyberspace/internet mind jacking idea, take the "Matrix" from Shadowrun. Only use magic spells instead of technology to interface with it.
7578268 You mean like Otakus? Wait, are they Cybermancers nowadays?
I'd say the developing awareness has better taste than its parents.
I don't understand why people hate fonts which have features in logos.
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Technomancers in 4e, dunno about otherwise.