Visions From the Underground (GLOBTEC)

(Chicago suburb Starbucks, Jan 17, 2010)

Five patrons beside me– one Latino, one Asian, three WALTs [white American-looking types], separate tables. Four stare into laptops, one into a statistics textbook, utterly uncomprehending.

Stereo music from above envelopes us, like a rhythmic parachute, but the five are oblivious, absorbed in their terminals and text book… Five feet apart but invisible to each other, connected but potentially through digital links spanning the WorldWideNet. Each table a cubicle with invisible walls.

Hail GLOBTEC - 21st century God!

Worshiped by one billion at laptop personal alters,

WiFi prayers to Satellite Archangels…

Tithes to self, family, friends,

90% to GLOBTEC

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