Extended Nervous System 1.0
Reading William Gibson’s blog and thinking about his discussion of ATMs as part of his extended nervous system, I decided to start mapping mine. I began with the interface I spend most of the day with, my Mac - then to the WiFi router, then the cable modem, then the cloud, then the servers and the ‘others’. There’s so much more to add… And strange that it really did come out looking so hierarchical - I was expecting it to be more rhizomatic. Perhaps I’m not representing it correctly - or maybe that which was born of ARPANET actually IS more hierarchical than it seems. After all, the military designed it…
(If you visit Gibson’s blog - take note of the strange structure of the interactivity - rather than allowing comments on the blog, there is a separate message board which he clearly reads and comments on in his blog. Any thoughts on this?)

2 users responded to " Extended Nervous System 1.0 "
August 3 2007
Hi, enjoyed your blog post re: William Gibson. I am a big fan too and have followed his work very closely for years.
If you are interested, I am posting chapter summaries of Spook Country at http://node.tumblr.com. There are definitely tons of spoilers, maps and pictures of key locations in the real Spook Country, and links to related topics. You might also want to check out Memetic Engineer’s Spook Country website [http://www.spookcountry.co.uk/] with a UK angle on the book.
- sean [nodemagazine.com]
August 7 2007
the paths your mac takes to those servers aren’t straight lines and that’s where it becomes more rhizomatic. (it is however still hierarchal in the sense of control however, due to things like DNS and other protocological systems.)
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