Miloping

Google servers have become sentient and decided the internet is harmful to humans. That's the only reason I can think of to explain that every search result is coming up with a “malware warning”.

Even Google's website has a malware warning. Look.

These days the apartment block is a cluster of disconnected rooms whose occupants exist in isolation. We are like estranged bits in a rushing stream of data brought to adjacency in the context of a running program – at the whim of a random peek.

My apartment is on the 6th floor but could anywhere else: the other side of town; in a shipping container in the yard; floating in the darkness of space, tethered by a string like a cosmic yoyo. Would it even matter?

I would imagine this is what it's like to be a deaf person who has entered a dark room.

But the servers are watching: silently and with a dull stare as the stream of bits eventually acquire context; and in an artificial world, it is the most real thing there is.

When that happens I'll be hiding submerged in a bathtub full of ice and water.