aloys wrote:
If D'ni was real and had been discovered in New Mexico, you can be 99.9% sure that humanity would have shown its darkest face and wars would have been started to control the power offered by the D'ni Books..
Secret government projects would have started to reverse engineer the Art into a digital form, Rusia, USA and China all vowing to be the first to develop such medium, wars would be started, and the normal strand of humanity would destroy.
There are so many old secret government projects, more today that we don't know about.
bogus wrote:
The Art is that..ART. It is a mixture of both artistic expression through writing, with the calculated functions and equations of science and mathamatics. The prospect of the Art as a form of transporting through computers makes little sense, simply because there is a very specific formula for being able to link. The way the pages are made, the way the ink is made, all of that is necessary to link. It is also a concept of D'ni society in general. The slow, calculated and meticulous crafting that is needed to make the books. It's a symbol of their pride, their drive and their desire to make something beautiful and great, even though they continue to CHOOSE to live in the cavern itself.
The Art with making paper, ink and the act of writing sounds like the artwork of the renaisance period where there was no other method to put ideas onto paper.
Today we use Art programs like PhotoShop to draw onto a digital canvas, and computers are perfect at dealing with emmensly complex equations, its not implausable.
aloys wrote:
Thankfully Uru and the Myst series keep a certain style coherence and evolve within certain limits. Although it could theoretically happen I wouldn't want to see Aliens or Predators in my Uru Ages.. The Todelmer Pod is about as 'out-there' as I would expect it to go
We got aliens and predators in our Ages, there is that creature in Gahreesen, and I think its unrealistic to expect that every Age we link to doesn't have aliens sentient or not (Bahro as sentient), predators and prey are norm for life, its worked out amazingly well on earth for well over 200 million years.
If 99.999 percent of people (likely to happen) choose to only go the continual path of the book type linking process, thats fine, and the debate will end in this discussion, i'm just working out how well it would be recieved or if anyone would visit such an Age that doesn't use a book (Relto will still be needed).