The world in 2023 has sooooo much more negative topics that one can wonder if there are any good news available at all.

And even while I know this and suffer from this pure fact when watching each and every newscast in the televison (yes, I am old) I will probably produce more of the same here in my blog 🙁

Today – being a “computer guy” – this means thinking about the “new oil” of the data driven century. The monopoly (yes, I mean it) of a very few, very large companies in regard of gathering all and every bit of information that someone put “on the web” for unclear reasons.

Question Mark ?

You’ve noticed “real(?)”. The question is if this reality is actually real or virtual or… something completely different.

In my personal recognition there is so much sh*t is happening in “the world” that questioning this assumption is an obvious idea.

While I really could accept the idea to live in a Virtual World of some larger simulation I believe that this one is the only one that affects me. Obvious, isn’t it?

Btw, there are multiple Movies regarding this idea, most popular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix. But the idea is much older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire )

Another approach goes for the Zoo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis which would be my second guess for our situation if this is actually the reality…

All of these ideas are the result after observing the history of mankind and the inability to learn from it. Which closes the loop – back to bad news 🙁