The Paragon Interview

A: Welcome to SNT, Gen. Spokesperson Echart Snaub, from the Paragon Foundation.

B: Thank you, my honor. (Waving his hand to the camera.)

A: You seem cheerful today.

B: Indeed. We’re so blessed by the rapid progress of the foundation. And I’m here being interviewed, how’s that?

A: Speaking of the foundation since you’ve mentioned it already, the listeners might want to know how Paragon endured up to its 226th this year. Anything special?

B: Everything’s special.

A: What makes you unique from other scientific foundations out there? I mean, I can’t mention a name but there are thousands of them. The oldest I know is no more than a century old.

B: Well, we have the best intelligence units, amazing technical crews, they have me (chuckles)…we have the highest funding so we are safe from brain drain. And I just wanted to add the new building.

A: Oh, I saw the building. It is undoubtedly the highest structure ever built on earth.

B: I say Philippines has a good bedrock.

A: I agree. So where are you getting the big budget? Could you mention some of the lists of the financial contributors? Asutex? Rembradt, Intl.?

B: We promised we would give their identities with utter confidentiality, otherwise they would stop funding.

A: I understand that especially if there is an unimaginably high confidentiality agreement at stake.

B: (Laugh) Appreciated.

A: Anyway, let’s start the real thing. At the report, you have a baby technology called STI. Let’s discuss that first. They say it must be the turning point of 21st century computing technology. How true is that?

B: The Synchronous Topography Inditor, or the STI system, is one of our latest and most flexible technologies. We owed it to our very own German nanotechnologist Dr. Peter Hoeg in leading the STI project for more than a decade. And I think it does really have a potential to dodge away, let’s say, from the major obstacles that impede technological advancement especially in the field of data processing.

A: So what is STI for?

B: It accepts digital topographic details from our high-end radiator scanners, or simply mapping of land, like Google Map 3D Grav, and other purposes such as military and any other geographical sciences. It could also be thought of as a contribution to the campaign against terrorism and disaster prevention by doing real time surveillance.

A: I’m curious. We already have those technologies you mentioned since… probably my youth. STI, based on your description, doesn’t seem to be any different. You scan moving topographies and feed them to computers. That’s not Paragon. There should be something else.

B: You know Paragon, eh?

A: So what is it?

B: The concept of creating a Synchronous Topography and advancing to geometrical data processing, that’s what it is. It had been a simple idea, but our fellow scientists from the past still struggled into getting it any closer to reality. The conception of this idea is finally concocted into STI by Dr. Hoeg. He thought that machines imitating natural features should be something worse. We could do better than that.
Several years ago, before the birth of STI, he thought it could be used into something big that no one had any guts to work for, and that’s when we hired him-- to execute his dreams… and maybe ours.

A: First, could you tell us short about geometrical data processing?

B: Okay. Instead of using conventional “digital” binary numbers, our “baby” technology receives and converts multi-dimensional images into a certain unique micro 4-D geometry- let’s say a complex pattern consisting of angular lines and deformed circles- or what we call Topography. What makes it more efficient compared to digital data processing is that these geometries are expertly drawn using Xenon atoms, and other less rare elements that are extremely stable under regulated environment. It’s like drawing with pebbles under atomic scale, in 4-D. Thus, there is no need to use special software to read the images. You just have to have a powerful lens magnification to see the details.

A: That’s great. Now I’m getting the picture. So you mentioned earlier about “something big” that Dr. Hoeg had in is mind in conceptualizing STI?

B: With the help of STI technology and the best functional telescopes from earth, land-based and space-based, we concocted a new peripheral device called Summary of God or SOG. It has been arranging 4 cubic millimeters per minute of readily arranged Xenon atoms converted from the digital stream of data. It is equivalent to 600 terabytes per minute that might have consumed a combination memory of 2 super computers instead of just covering 4 cubic millimeters of space!
It is that our telescopes are browsing through deep cosmos while afterwards relaying it through STI for data conversion from digital to analog Topographies to be stored to SOG.

A: So SOG is a certain kind of a super advance digital storage device?

B: Again, we considered the post-conversion geometrical datum being stored an analog instead of digital since we’re no longer dealing with 1’s and 0’s.

A: And does SOG justify its name, Summary of God? For the name itself, it would surely hit sensitive ears anytime soon.

B: At Paragon, we always make sure that all our individual inventions deserve its name.

A: So you’re summarizing God by map-recording the Universe? Am I Right? With the aid of telescopes, scanners, and such, then saving them to SOG?

B: If you meant recording the events and structures of the Universe, no. That might be the first thing that Paragon would back out from. It requires infinite units of storage device! What we are recording is the logic behind the harmonious forces responsible for structuring the Universe as what it is, because Topographies could be Structural or Logical. The former is applicable to mapping and surveillance. With SOG, we store the later type of Topography. By that way, indirectly, we can shape the first clump of clay in sculpting our greatest Creator. Now, you could picture SOG as a ball of logic.

A: So that’s it? You study the laws of nature and know who is or what is God?

B: Nothing is that simple, of course. Everything that has been stored in SOG will be carefully analyzed. That’s probably the hardest part. We might invite underground intelligencias if there are such things. If it’s necessary, we might also seek help from our fellow theologians and physicists.

A: (Smiled) Sounds fun. Could I join the research, too, because your foundation really draws curiosity out of me?

B: Everyone with brain could contribute; everyone who believes in God and everyone who dreamt to know Him down to the tiniest details.

A: Well, I’ll wait for your invite. (Smiled) So I hope you, with the foundation you represents, won’t be
bothered by the people who think the whole SOG thing is a blasphemy.

B: No certainly, we won’t.

A: Well, good luck for the Paragon’s future projects and happy physics year! Thank you for your time.

B: Thank you. Happy Physics year to all! And before you wrap this up, you can visit our cloud address at Paragon.cld.

A: There you are.

A: (Now turning directly to the camera, regaining a more formal composure). It has been a whole decade since a revolutionary termite gene against HIV had been planted to a certain group of people in Spain. Now, scientists have been worrying about a new strain of the virus that has just been reported two days ago from the same country. Will humanity be facing a new indestructible scourge that might again remain incurable for the next 70 years? Let’s know more about it after the break. We’ll be back.

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