Voodoo Links to High Technology
A web site discussing Voodoo informs it's readers that voodoo is a derivative of the world’s oldest known religions and is estimated to be over 10,000 years old. The word "voodoo" comes from the West African word "vodun," meaning spirit. The serpent figures heavily in the Voodoo faith and the word Voodoo has been translated as "the snake under whose auspices gather all who share the faith".
Could the symbol of the snake eating it's own tail, the ouroboros be a possible link to our modern day, as well as future high technology? One could easily argue that just as the snake continues to grow from the act of feeding itself from it's own body, so does the futuristic entity called artificial intelligence.
Other high technology links with voodoo include VoodooPC where you can even obtain voodoo technical support. The F-101 Voodoo is an American supersonic military fighter and voodoo programming, a tongue-in-cheek term for using a programming system or language which one does not fully understand. Also, there is the voodoo Graphics PCI hardware for computers and the Godsmack- Voodoo video you can view on YouTube.
So what does all of this voodoo and high technology mean? Well, sometimes genius is beyond the facade of reality for few of us would have thought that a 6700 year old occult symbol could represent the future of high technology.
Finally, is it possible that a 10,000 year old religion might hold a key for unlocking the cryptic code to the secrets of life? The insight to that question is based upon the premise that everything to be learned and discovered has already been documented in some form or another. That premise shall be discussed in future columns of the Cyberculture News and in "The Book of Voodoo Communications."
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