Plan B?

"webgreetings Cyber Guru."

"About time, I was wondering when you would check in, you’ve missed the last couple of Global Gatherings."

"Sorry Cyber Guru, what can I say ‘cept I been stranded phone-line-less in the unwebbed world, I did, however, smoke my Piece of the Peace Pipe at precisely 4:20. Dude, I had to walk a couple of miles just to reach the road to hitch to the town to find this phone to call you, I’m high in the hills, up where the phones don't reach."

"High in more ways than one I’ll wager."

"Certainly, but I been rolling this particular stone for most of the year man, it just changes flavor as I roll it along. I have been smoking some seriously blountingly good green of late and reading the 'Glugs of Gosh' by C.J.Dennis."

"Enough with the poetry and drugs, get back to the stuff I want to hear about, make your report."

"Din't you get my Email?"

"Yes, but obviously something fresh  must have happened other wise you wouldn't be calling me."

"True, basically Plan B is starting to look better than Plan A."

"What is Plan B?"

"Din’t I already tell you about Plan B ?"

"Don’t ask me, it’s a green sublink as far as I’m concerned."

"Oh, I have been offered an opportunity to shine several facets of the BBt-PPP at the same time."

"So you are basically going to build a 1:10 scale model of the movie set."

"Yep."

"As a sort of an ad for the Big Bong Peace Pipe WWWeb Concept I hope?"

"Um, more like a model of a temple to the potentiality of world peace through commonality of imagery and application of logic."

"Please, spare me the hippy stuff, just stick to what I need to hear."

"Sure" laughed Glitter, "What do you need to hear next?"

"Firstly, is there a local provider that can deliver each 19 Kb .JPG to the USA Hardweb in under 20 seconds?"

"Yep, several, and as you predicted, they are all less hops to the inter- continental fiber optic cable than was the last geographic location we sent live image from."

"Phone line and electricity continuity?"

"There are automated cash dispensing machines and other e-commerce devices in the town center, this would tend to make me believe that a secure connection can be established and maintained."

"Excellent, what is the ratio of webbed to unwebbed?"

"There-in lies one of the problems, qwertys are seen as machines and, as such, cause apprehension and fear in some of the more technophobic dudes in the area, on the whole I would say that computers are, at very best, perceived as tools of an artist, but mostly they are considered expensive and complicated. There is no internet café and little evidence of cyber incorporation into any of the local businesses, the local papers are very light on U.R.L’s so to speak, however, the FAX machine at least is an integrated part of life and over all I would say that the first wave of cyber interface is imminent."

"How many people in town can code?"

"I don’t know, as I said most of the dudes who habla html are artists and as such are visible only within their milieu."

"Huh?"

"Web-search on Nimbin and you’ll see what I mean, they got a whole thing already growing on it’s own, wwworth a cerf.

"K. So what kind of IMAGE are you going to transmit?"

"Firstly, or rather nextly, I am going to a Festival, it's the ideal forum for the initial interaction with the local unwebbed. It will also allow the BBt-PPP to demonstrate the technology & methodology which will be used for the real time construction of the 24 Footer.

"So basically you are going to smoke the Peace Pipe in Public?"

"I prefer to think of it as providing info-tainment to the unwebbed world."

"How come all of your plans end up with you sitting somewhere smoking Peace Pipes?"

" ;O) "

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