One of my
very few
E2 dreams, and a very disturbing one too...
An E2 tragedy
I read in the
newspaper about some
website gone wrong, killing one person. Since newspaper articles about websites are very often
inaccurate and
hilariously written, I read it. The first sentence below the
headline mentions "the
Internet community '
Everything'".
I freeze.
It turns out that following a millennium bug problem, "administrator" nate had to remove a lot of "nodes" - (yes the article said nodes). In removing the nodes, nate without knowledge removed a node that were a part of some human-machine interaction experiment...and one user got killed because of this.
I log onto E2 and get the message on the first page... The node in question had in fact been coupled to a probe of some sort, and it was feeding nodegel to a dying user. The user was Sensei, and by removing the node, the already ill Sensei was bereft of the nodegel that feeds him, and thereby killed.
State of shock follows...