Evolution of planet internet resulted in creation of a new species known as the ‘cybers’ or the internet people,fondly known as 'netizens'. In the evolutionary stage, this species was known to co-exist in both the physical (earth) world as well as the cyber world. Gradually, with the advancement in technology, the environment on planet internet became more and more conducive for habitation. Consequently, more and more humans mutated and transformed as cybers. While a majority of cybers still continue to co-exist in both the worlds, the trend is heavily towards getting acknowledged as cyber citizens. With this mass exodus, cyber world started witnessing creation of colonies and eventually kingdoms which loosely resembled the physical worlds, the mutants subscribed to. Today there are thousands of kingdoms and colonies all across. The interesting factor being, the activism and power in cyber world does not bear a direct correlation to the physical manifest. One of the most affluent, active and powerful cyber kingdoms is the kingdom of cyber republic of India, also known as Cyber India.
Cyber India is abuzz with activities as never before. With more and more cybers added to the count every day, it has become one of the most dominant and active cyber kingdoms. This kingdom is physically scattered over the entire globe, but centered in and around India in a ‘Cyber’ sense. The political animals in particular are the most active ones. Especially in the election season in the geography, which is almost a perennial feature. The food chain among the political animals is a top down feature with the ones on the top responsible for gathering, dissecting, analyzing the events in real world and (mis) representing them in the cyber world. Occasionally the top order is also responsible for creating new events. Since many in the first order co-exist in the physical and cyber worlds and there are no laws that span across both the universes, it gives an opportunity for the top order to act as miscreants with plausible deniability. The first order actively utilizes this shortcoming to derive food and power from the lower rungs.
The second order feeds on this information and is actively engaged in dissemination of the same while forcefully advocating the rationale. Second order typically seems to have physical correlation to the first order in the real world. Quite a few in the second order aspire to move up to the top. Others have strong ‘cyber genetic’ links to the top layers. This layer increases gradually and is not known to exhibit cross genetic tendencies. These two combined are the core layers with the second order exhibiting a strong and faithful cohesion to the creators.
The third layer is the transporter layer. These species can be found all around in vast numbers. They act as messengers for almost everything in the cyber world. However, in political sense, they act as political messengers. Although they exhibit affiliation to the second layer, they are at times known to change affiliations or act independently. But in either case this layer is politically ‘cyber active’. The core layers rely on the transporters to disseminate information and fetch cyber food in large numbers. The success of the core layer depends on the continued loyalty of the transporters. Although there is no incentive in the cyber world for the messengers, because it is assumed that passing information is their cyber genetic trait, studies have shown that an incentive based structure may soon be evolved as a means of cohesion between the transporters and the core layers.
The fourth is known as the ‘quasi passive’ layer. This is numerically the largest layer in the kingdom. Animals in this layer are largely passive on the internet. In the cyber world, they are primarily responsible for ‘consuming’ the cyber information generated and passing back acknowledgements which are a key means of survival for the layers on the top. However, this layer has important functions to perform. This layer transcends both the world in two ways. For one, this layer is required to and responsible for transformation of the ‘cyber food’ generated by top layers onto the physical world, particularly in times of elections. Secondly this layer is also responsible for conversion of the cyber food into a state that ‘non cybers’ can consume in real world. ‘Cybers’ in this layer may belong to different strata of society in the real manifest. While a significantly large number are non-affluent actors, some of them can be big players in the real world. Although, belonging to the lowest realm in the cyber world, this is by far the most important and volatile layer that connects and correlates both the worlds. As a result, they are extremely important in the cyber food chain. In a way this layer is the cyber manifest of bacteria, consuming the cyber food, translating it into physical world which in turn feeds the top orders in the physical world who in turn provide energy to the creators in cyber world. So quasi passives actually complete the cyber food chain. However, as mentioned above, this layer is highly volatile and has been known to switch sides frequently. This layer has also shown disturbing signs of transgressing across different layers in the cyber food chain at times, before returning to the quasi passive state.
Cyber India is abuzz with activities as never before. With more and more cybers added to the count every day, it has become one of the most dominant and active cyber kingdoms. This kingdom is physically scattered over the entire globe, but centered in and around India in a ‘Cyber’ sense. The political animals in particular are the most active ones. Especially in the election season in the geography, which is almost a perennial feature. The food chain among the political animals is a top down feature with the ones on the top responsible for gathering, dissecting, analyzing the events in real world and (mis) representing them in the cyber world. Occasionally the top order is also responsible for creating new events. Since many in the first order co-exist in the physical and cyber worlds and there are no laws that span across both the universes, it gives an opportunity for the top order to act as miscreants with plausible deniability. The first order actively utilizes this shortcoming to derive food and power from the lower rungs.
The second order feeds on this information and is actively engaged in dissemination of the same while forcefully advocating the rationale. Second order typically seems to have physical correlation to the first order in the real world. Quite a few in the second order aspire to move up to the top. Others have strong ‘cyber genetic’ links to the top layers. This layer increases gradually and is not known to exhibit cross genetic tendencies. These two combined are the core layers with the second order exhibiting a strong and faithful cohesion to the creators.
The third layer is the transporter layer. These species can be found all around in vast numbers. They act as messengers for almost everything in the cyber world. However, in political sense, they act as political messengers. Although they exhibit affiliation to the second layer, they are at times known to change affiliations or act independently. But in either case this layer is politically ‘cyber active’. The core layers rely on the transporters to disseminate information and fetch cyber food in large numbers. The success of the core layer depends on the continued loyalty of the transporters. Although there is no incentive in the cyber world for the messengers, because it is assumed that passing information is their cyber genetic trait, studies have shown that an incentive based structure may soon be evolved as a means of cohesion between the transporters and the core layers.
The fourth is known as the ‘quasi passive’ layer. This is numerically the largest layer in the kingdom. Animals in this layer are largely passive on the internet. In the cyber world, they are primarily responsible for ‘consuming’ the cyber information generated and passing back acknowledgements which are a key means of survival for the layers on the top. However, this layer has important functions to perform. This layer transcends both the world in two ways. For one, this layer is required to and responsible for transformation of the ‘cyber food’ generated by top layers onto the physical world, particularly in times of elections. Secondly this layer is also responsible for conversion of the cyber food into a state that ‘non cybers’ can consume in real world. ‘Cybers’ in this layer may belong to different strata of society in the real manifest. While a significantly large number are non-affluent actors, some of them can be big players in the real world. Although, belonging to the lowest realm in the cyber world, this is by far the most important and volatile layer that connects and correlates both the worlds. As a result, they are extremely important in the cyber food chain. In a way this layer is the cyber manifest of bacteria, consuming the cyber food, translating it into physical world which in turn feeds the top orders in the physical world who in turn provide energy to the creators in cyber world. So quasi passives actually complete the cyber food chain. However, as mentioned above, this layer is highly volatile and has been known to switch sides frequently. This layer has also shown disturbing signs of transgressing across different layers in the cyber food chain at times, before returning to the quasi passive state.
To be continued …
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