I know it is 'extreme literature' and most people including myself probably won't take it to heart, but I keep seeing it referred to over and over again... link please?

-- Y2KGardener (gardens@bigisland.net), September 15, 1999

Answers

link provided:

www.yahoo.com

type "infomagic"

scan hundreds of documents

-- who knows (useasearch@engine.man), September 16, 1999.

The archive of Cory Hamaski's Washington, DC Weather Reports.

Try this address:

http://www.sonnet.co.uk/muse/dcwrp.html

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), September 16, 1999.

Infomagic Part I: http://www.kiyoinc.com/prewrp10.html Part II: http://www.kiyoinc.com/WRP103.HTM

-- argh (argh@nowhere.ocm), September 16, 1999.

I thought the references are to one particular document. Bear in mind that there are also such things such as ISPs named Infomagic. Rather than plough through 22,374 pages of search engine results I thought one of the kind souls here might spare me a moment of their valuable time - all 106 days of it.

By the way, thanks for nothing "Who Knows" - you might wish to learn how to master link insertion. Use a search engine to look for "creating a link".

-- Y2KGardener (gardens@bigisland.net), September 16, 1999.

We no longer think InfoMagic is all that extreme.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 16, 1999.

Y2KGardener (like Chaunce)?

There are actually 3 Infomagic articles but I didn't like the third one at all :o)

It was the second article that really defined doomerism IMHO. And that is in Weather Report 103.

If you have never read it before I would be interested in what you think about it.

DC Y2K Weather Report Number 100

DC Y2K Weather Report Number 103

-- Brian (imager@home.com), September 16, 1999.

There are actually two additional relevant Infomagic writings that appear in Cory Hamasaki's series.

DC Y2K Weather Report Issue 106

DC Y2K Weather Report Issue 107

Issue 106 contains a critique by Bruce Webster of Infomagic's 103 writings; Infomagic's response to Webster also appears. Great debate on the applicability of complex systems theory, adaptation, and the time needed to adapt.

Issue 107 is Infomagic's view of how to personally prepare for Y2K, starting with acceptance of one's own death as being probable, then launching into a survivalist strategy that includes strategically hidden caches containing supplies, assault rifles, gold coins, etc.

Personally, I find Infomagic's writings to be fascinating, because they are completely plausible with the unknowns that we face ahead. (Note that I say plausible, not probable....)

-- Jack (jsprat@eld.net), September 16, 1999.

Thanks to all for the links.

(Jack:) Personally, I find Infomagic's writings to be fascinating, because they are completely plausible with the unknowns that we face ahead. (Note that I say plausible, not probable....)
I quote that because you took the words right out of my mouth. Plausible - sure, but he also predicted a stock market crash at the end of '98. No one knows - simple as that.

-- Y2KGardener (gardens@bigisland.net), September 16, 1999.

Jack

I personally didn't like infomagics preps for such a thing. It is one thing to program computers and totally another to actually live with limited resources. One has to break the habits of society and that would be a challange few would be able to do.

There is not enough time left to even bother thinking about such an event.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), September 16, 1999.

Brian:

--"to actually live with limited resources. One has to break the habits of society and that would be a challange few would be able to do." Hence Info-magic's prediction of a great human die off.

Jack:

Info-magic's doomsday spiral is nothing new in the annals of speculative thought, except for the computer angle. Science fiction writers have been describing worlds that have collapsed into barbarism, or a new dark ages for decades.

A good series of books that explains ins and outs of 'de- civilization' is the There Will Be War series of books written/edited by Jerry Pournelle; lots of good stories and thoughtfull articles, look for them in the science fiction section of the library or used book stores.

A Step Farther Out, also by Jerry Pourelle, explains the link between the technology a society has, and social order it WILL have. For instance: if Y2K throws us back to a pre-industrial level of technology, you can be sure we will see the death of feminism, a return to slavery, dueling--a real Conan The Barbarian type world.

-- Cigarette Smoking Man (csm@smoke.com), September 16, 1999.

Infomagic was very kewl with his initial publications, but times have changed, and the stakes have grown higher.

Unless Infomagic writes an update, other cybernauts will lay claim to the FINAL ANALYSIS.

-- Randolph (dinosaur@williams-net.com), September 17, 1999.