Poem: "The Crystal Inside the World"
Oct. 19th, 2013 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThis is the freebie for the October 2013 Crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from LJ user Siege. It also fills the "experiment" square in my 10-6-13 card for the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
origfic_bingo fest. The title is an inversion of "The World Inside the Crystal," a famous filksong about cyberspace.
"The Crystal Inside the World"
The experiment began as a class project,
saving one student's mind
within a crystal just a few inches across.
With processing power maximized
down to an atomic level,
there was plenty of room left over.
So she invited a few friends
to upload imprints of themselves,
and then a few more,
followed by the campus,
and eventually the world.
Perfect data storage,
nearly infinite,
radiant with the light
of countless minds.
Heat dispersion was an issue,
not so much at first,
but more and more
as time went on.
People talked about
ending the experiment.
So the student grabbed
the backup copy of humanity
and headed for the hills.
She watched as it grew brighter,
and then oddly smaller,
until it winked out altogether
in front of her watering eyes.
On the other side of reality,
there was a very big bang.
origfic_bingo fest. The title is an inversion of "The World Inside the Crystal," a famous filksong about cyberspace."The Crystal Inside the World"
The experiment began as a class project,
saving one student's mind
within a crystal just a few inches across.
With processing power maximized
down to an atomic level,
there was plenty of room left over.
So she invited a few friends
to upload imprints of themselves,
and then a few more,
followed by the campus,
and eventually the world.
Perfect data storage,
nearly infinite,
radiant with the light
of countless minds.
Heat dispersion was an issue,
not so much at first,
but more and more
as time went on.
People talked about
ending the experiment.
So the student grabbed
the backup copy of humanity
and headed for the hills.
She watched as it grew brighter,
and then oddly smaller,
until it winked out altogether
in front of her watering eyes.
On the other side of reality,
there was a very big bang.
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Date: 2013-10-19 03:54 pm (UTC)(*blush*)
Thank you!
Date: 2013-10-19 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-10-19 10:55 pm (UTC)