Chapter tenPepper –
What’s that saying about life imitating art?
Okay, so you have NetSpace and you have MuSpace. NetSpace has walls, forms, properties, definition. MuSpace doesn’t.
Then there’s that old myth: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth, and the earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of God brooded over the waters.”
And the navelgazers say there was no beginning and no end, and that everything we see is really nothingness anyway because how can you say it’s any one thing when it’s made up of a bunch of different things? What’s a netserver? A box with a bunch of chipboards, a Net interface system, operating system, a couple dozen terabytes of storage and processing space. Ask a dozen different Runners, you’ll get an
