NEW STYLE HUNTER EMERGING  

In the past he hid in the bushes, staring intently as another still form paused in the glen with ears alert, eyes darting and heart pounding. Both were searching for information. Their lives depended on it. This game of survival has been played out over the millennia as man and wild animal tested each others ability to eat or be eaten.

Civilization has advanced a bit since those pre-historic days, but today a new type of hunter is so far, unheard across the land: the information broker. Their body does not need to be hidden, but at the most important times it usually is. Not by choice, but because of the very medium in which he forages for survival: Cyberspace. Here is a world larger than we have ever been able to imagine, just out there, between, but including, man and his machines. In the Information Age the return on finding the "unknown" greatly exceeds that of dealing in the past, in the known. In cyberspace today man the hunter is still looking for information. That much hasn't changed. However, in a field as vast as cyberspace, a field only limited by human imagination, the boundaries might as well be infinite. The searches will go on for a thousand years. Imagine travelling in a world that had never-ending worlds within worlds. Where every door led not only into the next room but into a room in another world. And there were unlimited new doors to open.

Man has never before, certainly not in this endless fashion, been able to enter, speak, touch, see, walk, run or fly in any direction or fashion desired. Such unlimited boundaries will tittilate, intrigue, amaze, and frighten. The experiences will educate, train, open doors of perception and addict. These cybernauts are as much alone in these travels, although they can have whoever, living or dead, accompany them on such cakewalks through a cyberspace containing galaxies more numerous than stars.

Have you ever gazed at a rose and wondered what it thought? What is was hearing? What it was feeling? Now you can know because you will understand its thinking, hear what it hears, feel what it feels. Ferdinand Magellan never had it so good.

Think of what this could release in mankind? What unscaled mountains can be climbed, what rivers crossed, what worlds experienced, what galaxies uncovered. Worlds where plants talk, where you can become a butterfly, an angel or the devil. Where you can be anything you have imagined or never even dreamed. What this may do to mankind is unknown. Make us gods or devils. Just as any experience in the past has done. Only this time we will be having such experiences as only the gods have mentioned. Creativity thus captured can make what we knew in the past, during our experiences in a more restricted reality, a heaven or a hell.

As these cybernauts advance in their explorations totally new ways to learn, experience and assimilate will be discovered. It will make man think differently. It will make obsolete many of the things we felt were irreplaceable. The effect on "showbiz" will be phenomenal causing an explosion in the arts such as has never been witnessed previously. Virtual Reality will effect mankind more than the automobile.

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