Neal Stephenson Quote
The metavirus is everywhere. Anywhere life exists, the metavirus is there,too, propagating through it. Originally, it was spread around on comets.That's probably how life first came to the Earth, and that's probably how themetavirus came here also. But comets are slow, whereas radio waves are fast.In binary form, a virus can bounce around the universe at the speed of light.It infects a civilized planet, gets into its computers, reproduces, andinevitably gets broadcast on television or radio or whatever. Thosetransmissions don't stop at the edge of the atmosphere -- they radiate out intospace, forever. And if they hit a planet with another civilized culture, wherepeople are listening to the stars the way Rife was doing, then that planet getsinfected, too. I think that was Rife's plan, and I think it worked. Exceptthat Rife was smart -- he caught it in a controlled manner. He put it in abottle. An informational warfare agent for him to use at his discretion. Whenit is placed into a computer, it snow-crashes the computer by causing it to infect itself with new viruses. But it is much more devastating when it goesinto the mind of a hacker, a person who has an understanding of binary codebuilt into the deep structures of his brain. The binary metavirus will destroythe mind of a hacker.
The metavirus is everywhere. Anywhere life exists, the metavirus is there,too, propagating through it. Originally, it was spread around on comets.That's probably how life first came to the Earth, and that's probably how themetavirus came here also. But comets are slow, whereas radio waves are fast.In binary form, a virus can bounce around the universe at the speed of light.It infects a civilized planet, gets into its computers, reproduces, andinevitably gets broadcast on television or radio or whatever. Thosetransmissions don't stop at the edge of the atmosphere -- they radiate out intospace, forever. And if they hit a planet with another civilized culture, wherepeople are listening to the stars the way Rife was doing, then that planet getsinfected, too. I think that was Rife's plan, and I think it worked. Exceptthat Rife was smart -- he caught it in a controlled manner. He put it in abottle. An informational warfare agent for him to use at his discretion. Whenit is placed into a computer, it snow-crashes the computer by causing it to infect itself with new viruses. But it is much more devastating when it goesinto the mind of a hacker, a person who has an understanding of binary codebuilt into the deep structures of his brain. The binary metavirus will destroythe mind of a hacker.