[UA] Computer Phreaking

[Steven Kaye]

>Maybe the Compumancy idea would work better as a new archetype (I'm at a
>loss for a name) which represents the idea of always having to do things
>in the newest way: The Progress Addict perhaps?
>
>A similar taboo could be kept (Don't use the phone if you could e-mail,
>don't cut vegetables by hand, but use the food processor, don't take
>penicillin if there's a new synthetic antibiotic available), although I'm
>not sure what the channels would include.
>
>Part of thinks this is stupid, but another part of me looks at Brookstone
>and the Sharper Image catalog and thinks a focus on useless technological
>innovation is a large part of our culture.

Similar slant - how about telephone-based magic? (Hey, it worked for Grant
Morrison). The very technology that makes you able to communicate at any
time drives you to come up with new ways of thwarting it - from phones to
answering machines (I'll talk to you later) to automatic redial (I'm
waiting...) and so on and so on in a communications arms race.

Taboo: You can only deal with people through telephones. This includes
friends, significant others, etc. Major Isolation check time.

Steven



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