DECAP CHRONICLES: circa 2 Million AD

FUTURE WORLDS

For eons e-commerce sought to mimic the realm of the real word finance but failed due to various levels of hacking and piracy. Then, came the conjure machine revolution in which the distinction between desires, dreams, wants and needs were blured by the ability to increasingly translate such thoughts first, into the VR realm then into the actual realm of the real world.

The paradox of this brave new world was revising the concept of property, copyrights, and ownership, a world in which visual sight satisfied all necessary and sufficient conditions to knock off someone else's creation. Sure there were political discussions about policies but these only fostered a blosoming cottage litigation industry that proved to be more obstructive to commerce than a catalyst. The loopholes of reverse engineering were child's play in the conjure world and every grandma and grandchild who could affort claim fees for copyrighting, defensively reserved infringment rights, like water on a duck's back.

The brave new world of work became one of thought endurance and the lines between game play and work were extensively blurred. Whether it be a billion hit jingle, a 10 billion downlaoded app, or a 2 billion read epub, someone had to be making money. The marketplace saw the role of the middleman margins sqeezed to near extinction as everybody and their cousin were going viral with "original material." In the end, the more pervasive and rampant the distribution of content became, the less was the grounds for originality, but who cared. The world was wired as a cup of black coffee, first being sipped before sunrise and ditched for transition into the realm of infinite possibilities of the dream world.

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