7.18.2011 Two bits. A dependent alliance forms. Fred learns about the power of programming and John finds an audience.

Fred the harlequin inside the CPU asks: How powerful is code?

John the programmer at his desk types back: In the beginning was the word.

F: What does code do?

J: Code shapes the action of the universe.

F: Why program a machine?

J: The machine removes the limits of the body.

F: How do you visualize the internet?

J: Like a multi-armed robot with millions of operators.

F: Will the network ever be able to program itself?

J: It does now to a great degree; especially when routing traffic.

F: But will the millions of circuits ever make a separate conscious entity?

J: Not possible. That's pure science fiction. What magazine did you say this was for?

F: Please tell us more about your 'making something from nothing'.

J: Well, there is an idea, which has no presence in the world outside my imagination. I translate that idea through logic into lines of code. In binary form, my writing turns a universal computer into a specific tool.

F: Are you saying that the idea in your imagination is nothing?

J: I interpret what I find in my imagination and enable the idea to operate in the physical world. No one can say where it comes from.
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