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I think the idea of ONLINE CAROLINE is brilliant. The system uses a database to personally construct a narrative for the individual user. Although this particular narrative is not all that enthralling, I do believe it is a step in the right direction.

Furthermore, I think Jill Walker did a pretty good job explaining the whole process as a first hand witness/user/player/audience member. She wrote about her emotional response to the game as well as here interest in the moving through the narrative.

My Big Question is really not that big at all, kind of small really – the Willow of questions: Are there more advanced versions of ONLINE CAROLINE where the story develops more around user input, but essentially remains the same story?

Betsy_Ch.8_Hayles_I

First off, I enjoy metaphysical stuff and messing with ontology of things. So this article was cool.

Second, I searched for Lexia to Perplexia, but could not find a working version, so I was dissapointed. If any one found a working one please let me know where it is.

The last statement "these connections perform human subjects who cannot be thought without the intelligent machines that produce us even as we produce them." Hayles seems to be constructing a circle stucture of creation. Where we create the machines that create ourselves. The concept of 'God' within ourselves has always facinated me.