Prologue
The reality of the digital world
Computers are a lot like DNA. Both can store information, copy information, express information, and corrupt that information. DNA has four base letters that make up our genetic information, while computers only have their binary code in their information. Computer data serves us all in one way or another. While the 'data' that makes up living creatures can be represented in a physical form, and have a sentience of its own, data cannot. That is what supposedly separates us.
In this data world, a program could exist that is very much like our universe. It changes over a long period of time, and inevitably becomes more and more advanced. There could be an organism that has no chance of survival unless it adapts to the ever-changing universe. But data is less complex than our own DNA, so therefore change might be easier to induce. But changes may also be more obvious, an all-out 'mutation', rather than the subtle elegance of a change from a few single-celled organisms to thousands of unique creatures, all with their own way of survival.
To survive in this harsh reality, they must evolve quickly into strong warriors, because otherwise, a more highly advanced organism will make them extinct. This world with its quick evolutionary rate would be chaotic and dangerous.
It must be assumed that this data world would know of our organic universe. These data-creatures would yearn to enter the organic realm, because to them, the subtle evolution would be simpler. And since of our links with the Digital World through computers, they might find a way to enter the complex, yet simple realm of nature…
The revolution is about to begin. Are you ready?
