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Should I say I was governor of California ? Are you going to put a super under that or do you want me to say it? OK, I'm Jerry Brown and I was Governor of California in the early 70''s and 80's , and my father was Governor before me. The origin of the name California has been lost in the shadows of time. We don't quite know whereit came from. Anyway as a state of mind people came out here looking for gold. But it'sbeen a continuing migration since then. With changes. Aerospace, culture - People have been coming here in search of a better future.

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BIT PLANE is a project in development by the Bureau of Inverse Technology [bit].

The bureau is an information agency Servicing the Information Age.

Information follows.

The bit plane is a pet aerial observation unit a highly compact spy plane developed from the generous residues of cold war precision

The device consists of a remote-controlled aircraft wingspan 20 inches, nose-mounted with a miniature video-camera / transmitter nanobug avx 900s4

The plane transmits a continuous stream of video to a head-mounted receiver providing the Pilot on the ground with the navigational sight for the plane and vast telecast views of the immediate surroundings

The unit is operated optimally at altitudes of between 10 and 600 feet. [bit plane underground trial dec. 1996]

bit plane standard unit demonstrates functionality in a series of sorties over the SILICON VALLEY Nov 97 - Feb 98

a flight from reason a serch for artificial intellignce over potentially hostile territory

APPLE, IBM ,LOCKHEED, NASA AMES, DOLBY, INTEL, NETSCAPE, XEROX PARC, ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INTERVAL RESEARCH, SLAC, SEGA, SEAGATE, HEWLETT PACKARD, BORLAND, ORACLE, YAHOO, SGI, NOVELL, SETI, ADOBE, ATARI, COMPAQ, SUN, SYMANTEC, 3COM, ANALOG DEVICES

Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. still the largest employer in the Valley causes momentary video breakup

bit plane correctional manoever

AS SEEN FROM THE AIR THE SILICON VALLEY DELIVERS THE FUTURE

Stanford Industrial Park

It was here that the young Doug Engelbart, a pioneer of personal computing, formed his belief in the potential for the personal computer to extend and improve the human condition

He dreamed of a "fly-through" information space as he imagined the ways information could be displayed on a screen

THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS

He started thinking about "the world's problems" and what an engineer could do to solve them

Page Mill Road Palo Alto home to 1/3 of the world's Venture Captial firms and the largest legal creation of wealth in California since the Gold Rush

Sunnyvale

It was here that Atari was founded with the success of Pong

the region famously boasts the world's highest concentration of engineering PhD's and at least 12 000 horses

bit plane flies over dense cellular networks sleek corporate campuses and artificial irrigated lawns some of these sprinklers have their own IP addresses

Prestigious think-tank Xerox PARC birthplace of the modern mouse & home to the slogan The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It

Without the unique conditions of the Californian Climate efforts to replicate this economic phenomenon elsewhere have failed

AIR SAFETY

bit plane shares many features of the military flight simulator as it flies through a navigable terrain of spatialized data bit plane landscape rendering is in fact superior However there are no ABORT or RESTART options

ALL ERRORS WILL BE FINAL

TEST CRASH

bit plane exceeds control range over Roche BioScience to plummet deep into the territory it investigates.

GAMEOVER

Unit retrieval was accurately effected after plotting plane's final trajectory and crash location from recorded video transmissions

NETWORK EFFECTS

Due to its compact dimensions bit plane is able to enter space inaccessible to other aircraft .

Interval Research Corporation

has strategized that the creation of secrets is actually more valuable than the creation of information itself

bit plane imaging reports well-appointed employee duckponds and ample parking spaces supplying suitable take-off and landing facilities for the bit plane

NETWORK STATUS INDICATOR

ratio of circulating viruses warnings to actual circulating viruses 55:1 this figure has remained relatively constant for the last 2 years, indicating a network-related anxiety plateau

A PARTICULARLY PLEASANT PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK

Mountain View

Hewlett Packard

started business in a 1-car garage in nearby Palo Alto their tools were simple: a bench, vice, drill press, file, soldering iron hacksaw and and some purchased components

In 1987 the garage was officially designated a California State Historical Landmark visited by thousands yearly

Moffet Air Base Sun MicroSystems Adobe Systems Silicon Graphics

In recent reports, thousands of 3-car domestic garages in this area have been subject to random Non-Owner openings and closings attributed to the massive high-powered US Marine signals active in the area

ONCE A FERTILE ORCHARD REGION KNOWN AS THE VALLEY OF HEART'S DELIGHT

Reports of seeping underground waste storage of hydrochloric and hydrofluric acid carbon tetrachloride, methylene chloride and other production solvents of the wafer fabrication process are not verifiable from the air.

THERE WAS A SENSE OF BEING NOT PART OF A COMPANY BUT BEING PART OF A CAUSE OR CRUSADE

The Legendary Highway 101

40% of global Internet traffic originated or terminated in this area in 1996

PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES

Data found on real productivity increases due to the increased use of personal computational devices is somewhat equivocal Corporate mediation of all business and personal communications has increased to keep pace

HOURS LOST DUE TO DELAYS IN TRAFFIC 2000 IN 1996

bit plane video transmission prefers Network Television broadcast frequencies for broad, premium bandwidth . however this can cause interruption to domestic TV reception directly under bit plane flight path.

In 7 complaints to the FCC coinciding with bit plane air time residents described aerial panoramas of unknown origin interrupting their regularly programmed television viewing

All lodgers were unable to recognize own locations in aerial rendering

The FCC has not acted on the complaints

SPECIFICATIONS

Other unfriendly user interface effects include collateral and vehicular damage, pilot nausea.

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