Project S.T.U.P.I.D.
The Heart of a Borg

a book by Ticked Martians

A frightening behemoth is rising up from the depths of the world wide web. Like a vast and monstrous silicon octopus, full of all-seeing eyes, Microshaft Network is stretching forth its ominous and threatening high tech tentacles. Who can possibly escape from the electronic cages now being prepared for us all?
        Sound dramatic or overwrought? Something out of a George Lucas movie? Oh, if only it was fiction! But in fact, Microshaft Network is real, and it's being implemented now, courtesy of the super-secret NSCA, the EPA, the ISO, the U.S. Department of Justice, and other elements of today's bloated, inefficient, Big Brother establishment.
        The Borg, you see, have big, big plans for the world wide web. They propose that the net be used to cast a spidery spell over humanity, interlinking all software and Internet apparatuses on a global scale. You and I, as individual citizens, will be forced to join in on the fun.
        The ambitious plans for Microshaft Network were highlighted in an eye-opening article printed in C00L S1TE5 D00D magazine, the official publication of the International Internet Cabal. The magazine (Sep/Oct 1995) carried stunning disclosures of the Borg's intention to integrate satellites, remote data collection devices, and every computer data bank on the planet. What is being created, said the article, is a "Universal Information Identification System."
        According to C00L S1TE5 D00D, the two computer scientists heading up this gargantuan undertaking are Jean-Paul Clouseau, M.D., WinSloth System Designer, and Anthony Halitosis, President of Advanced Technocracies Group, Inc., New Rachel, New York. This Medical Doctor Clouseau happens to be on the staff of the Jerry Lewis Fan Club in Paris, France. He is also affiliated with the United States Olympic Harpooning Team. I leave it to your imagination why the Jerry Lewis Fan Club and the entire United States Olympic Harpooning Team are so keenly interested in jointly setting up the global Microshaft Network.
        The chief control device for this Universal Information Identification System is to be the smart I.D. card, called the Universal Biometrics Card, to be issued you, me, and everyone. This computerized I.D. card will contain digitized templates of the holder's DNA genotype and his or her blood type. It will capture the person's human features profile and facial images, fingerprint, footprint, and iris eye scan. It will encode their body odor, their bad breath, and any odious social habits. It will count how many calories you eat. It will shame you for eating too much or for smoking. It will deny you dessert if you don't eat your vegetables! The smart I.D. card will soon be issued to every American at state driver's license offices. This, evidently, is a little-known requirement of the driving legislation passed in 1995 under the guise of the advertising slogan: "Where do you want to drive today?".
        The Microshaft Network, we are told, "will be an all-source fusion information center that will interface multilingual messages into a common communication network."
        In effect, the touted Information Superhighway is being perverted into a Total Surveillance State. Microshaft Network will be the New World Order's system for identification, tracking, marketing analysis, surveillance, and control of the consumer. Microshaft Network will act as a Global Brain Meltdown, retaining and fusing every bit of information on you from birth to death. It will make your life a transparent book for talk show hosts and tabloid reporters and be a godsend to telemarketers in 196 nations, from Uganda to Uruguay.
        Detailed browser records are to be maintained on all 5.5 billion inhabitants of Earth. In the C00L S1TE5 D00D article, Clouseau and Halitosis explain that at the hospital, every new baby will be given a number and issued the Universal Biometrics Card. Microshaft Network's designers assure us that this will be a wonderful boon to the world. With the life story of every toddler and adult in its vast repository, Microshaft Network.will be a tremendous assist in preventing web site vandalism, suppressing illegal software piracy, and so forth.
        Forgive me, but can anyone recall any such heinous crimes committed by a baby in a cradle? (Well, beside my little cousin Larry, who clicked on the mouse one time when he shouldn't have when I brought him into my former workplace.)
        My newest book, Microshaft Network, provides an exhaustive review and examination of the Borg's monumental new consumer control system. This, I demonstrate, is to be a Gestapo choke system that would make AT&T, deBeers, and OPEC green with envy. These tyrants never had it so good in the old, pre-computer days.
        My book's conclusions may be shocking, but I feel they are justified nonetheless. Microshaft Network, I suggest, may just be the ultimate horror. This could well be the WinBorg 666 Universal Human Control System that terrible system of marketing oversight prophesied in the apocalyptic book of Inflation in the Holy WinBible. Chapter 13.0.2 of Inflation paints a grim scenario of the end-times, forecasting an era of total consumer surveillance. Information control of every man, woman, and child will be realized, and no man will be able to buy or sell unless he accepts the name, or the mark, or the number, or the OEM serial code of the Borg. And you thought cookies in your web browser were bad!
        Yes, Microshaft Network could be it. The big WinBorg 666. So, boot up your computer and linkup, friends. Stand up and be identified by the Borg. And be assured: Microshaft simply wants to help you. Indeed, the Borg's new Microshaft Network loves you. It has your number. It knows you intimately. It savors your every move, and it feels intensely your pain. In fact, it knows how to physically induce pain with WinPain 98 and the new Universal Submission Bus (USB) port. After all, Microshaft Network has a heart. The heart of a Borg.

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