From the diary of Satoshi Araki…
What is data?
In terms of digital data, data is a series of "true" and "false" sequences (or 1's and 0's) that, when used together, perform a specific action.
In this respect, all living organisms can be called the epitome of digital data engineering.
Our DNA is an incredibly complex system of binary "true" and "false" statements, billions and trillions of sequences long. These massive amounts of data give each human, animal and plant their diversity, due to changes between each individual in these binary "statements".
Basically, our bodies hold more information in their base program than any computer could ever hold. Living organisms are the most advanced computer systems in existence!
I, Satoshi Araki, and my development team have worked tirelessly to develop the first online bio-transfer network. It works by storing pieces of data in digitally based living organisms.
The efficiency of this program is near perfect: so close, in fact, that a person in Japan can load and e-mail a terabyte of information to a person in America in just under three seconds.
This is, of course, a monumental achievement! Our team will likely go down in history as the greatest of all engineers, next to God himself!
Though the network is only in the experimentation stage, I have managed to finish the program for the first digital creature. To prep it for receiving data, I have placed it in a pre-loader: an egg, so to speak.
These creatures (I use the term sparingly) are designed to grow, and learn from experience. While a newly "hatched" egg may only be able to transfer a terabyte of information, a mature and fully experienced digital being should be able to load more than an exabyte of information. (1 billion gigabytes!)
Some members of my team are reluctant to program the monsters to grow. They are concerned that one may gain independence and wreak havoc on the system. I highly doubt this, as peaceful natures are written into the base program for every digital being. Despite these small disputes, the project moves forward.
My son, seven years old now, greats me every day when I get home, eagerly asking me more and more questions about my project. He's the best son a father could ask for; he doesn't realize that half of the inspirations for this project came from him!
When I asked him what I should name the program, he didn't just give me the first thing that popped into his head. He actually sat in his room for three days thinking about it! He told me it should be simple, but since the project was so huge, that it should have a name that meant something big. What a smart kid!
My son gave me the name, and I have decided to make it the title for our project.
The Digital World Project is under way!
-Satoshi Araki