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The Grey Dystopia of Mary R147

Here's an interesting short story, complete on one web page: a ten-minute read that might give you a couple of hours of thinking material. The author, Roger Born, has extrapolated a strange and somewhat depressing new world, basing his assumptions on some of the information that has recently come out of the Microsoft monopoly investigations. While Macintosh users might find the tale superficially amusing, it also contains the seeds of a possible future which is, to say the least, disturbing to those of us who make our livings by using computers, as well as those who simply use computers at home to access the Internet, play a few games, or keep track of their checkbooks. Being an artist and a gardener, I've always been disturbed by flat-grey-dystopia type stories. Mary147 is such a story, and though it might seem like light reading, or just a slap at the WinTel world, its meaning can be applied to any form of mono-political structure; societal control on its way to becoming individual control should be enough to disturb the right side of anyone's brain.

Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:12:39 -0800

Submitted by: Teddi Stransky