The internet can sometimes show some powerful insights to the human psych, mostly in how we behave when we're reduced to nothing but anonymous names on a forum. But one thing that I noticed were the names we give ourselves.
And I wonder if, in 2120, when the whole world is connected to this enormous Internet network construct or whatever, if we will be naming ourselves with screen names. And that is a scary thought.
A brief rundown on names from a random thread on Fark.com gives us names like:
House of Tards
Remove all Republicans
Alien Robot
thisispete
HempHead
Fluorescent Testicle
neongoats
heinekenftw
Spanky_McFarksalot
Fart_Machine
Now just imagine how fast society would crumble if we all had names like this. Imagine the republicans putting up a guy named 'Fart_Machine' and the democrats respond with a guy named 'Remove all Republicans.' A candidate named Flourescent Testicle would probably be worse. Or imagine meeting a really hot blond chick who really likes you and then you learn her name is 'neongoats.'
Hopefully, in 2120, there'd be some standards as to what people name themselves, but it's a damn good thing that people can't do this right now in 2009.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases. -Plato.
J Kuhl Signing Off
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