---------------------------------------- Space Gopher 2000 July 05th, 2018 ---------------------------------------- What if quantum entaglement and spooky action at a distance allow for us to create extremely long range connections, but with very low bandwidth. "Why would that be the case?" you might ask. Frankly, I have no idea. If you don't think about the details too much it seems like something you could gloss over in a story, though. I want to explore that idea in a short story as a vehicle to reintroduce gopher as the web of the space-future. No nonsense, text driven communication across vast spaces would make for an incredible aesthetic and a great reason to draw some attention back to port 70. I think of films like Alien and their use of text for communication and it makes sense to me. Local running AIs and super-powerful UI crap is neat, but for anything at a distance we fall back on the age-old safety of text. If you imagine a universe populated by ships launched and traveling at relativistic speeds, we quickly encounter vast distances in relative time, not only space. These time gaps are a bigger threat to communication than distance. We cannot innovate because it leaves behind all those that have gone out before. We cannot shift paradigms. We must speak to a common level. Isn't that a cool thought? I want to read stuff in that universe. I want gopher featured prominantly. I guess I should start working on it at some point. Do any of you have any ideas to pile on top? I don't have a story here at all, just setting, so I could use all the help I can get. Or, I guess if one of you is feeling the creative juices flowing, take it and run. I want to read it more than I want to write it.