the flu blog consortium

It was probably more like six years ago about the time the flu spread quickly. That’s when they started buying the blogs. People sold them freely to pay for treatment or just to get a place in the “comfort spas” as they were advertised. The places, if you could afford the extra payment on your insurance, you could go to be quarantined for your last few months. They were part of the shutdown group; the ones smart enough to travel north far enough to survive, about 300 miles east of here.

Purchasing all of that content produced an amazing collection of data which they hired people to link. And then the linking software came into the system two years ago if you remember, creating instant links from every digital camera when they combined the GPS tracking capabilities. Then they purchased that with the medical insurance company they founded later that year.

So, it worked out very well for them. Google started this earlier. Virtually, well actually, employing people to link things and tag pictures. People never realized the great work they did in just a short time. And when the newspapers had to close a few months after the government went into the bubble, the quarantine habitat in Alaska, the online revolution really took shape.

With travel restricted so strictly, everyone seemingly was writing about their last days and collectively this journal combined with the government program giving everyone a notebook and free broadband to quell the street panic, they quickly noticed that this was the new economy. And that’s how this started. You were seven when we came here. Yesterday, you asked about power.

We still build fires here on the island which is primarily for social purposes, to get people meeting again after all the time hibernating. They’re getting used to it, although you think it’s just fun. For them, they still fear people and they’ve been working in front of their screen for a long time, earning time. It’s almost over.

The French came up with a way to transmit nuclear power over the network to power devices from anywhere. No more coal and oil. Everyone will have it in a few years. We’ve managed to adapt. Raw foods, mostly. Insulation against the cold. But next year, or maybe the year after, I hear we may be able to migrate south again. I’d love to feel the warm sun again longer in the year. Doesn’t that sound like fun?