与共鸣同在要明白的第一件事是我从来没有要求我自己成为现在的样子。我只是我。在崩溃2.0之后的几年里，我与自己达成了和解，接受了我现在的不同，有些事物改变了我。我不能说清楚它是怎么发生的，但我可以说是“崩溃”以某种方式引发了它。
故事是这样的。在64年之前，我是矩阵技术和系统开发的学生，尽管那并不是我真正的热情所在。我是一个充满激情的游戏玩家，对代码的兴趣不亚于任何矩阵狂热分子。我做了一些小规模的骇入和代码破解，用的是我现在还在用的这个网名——不过没什么了不起的，事实上，完全比不上我们的黑客天才Slamm–0!的水平。
> 不要奉承我。不, 只是开个玩笑。请继续。
> Slamm–0!
在崩溃的那天，我像往常一样在消磨时间，通过骇入《超自然危机》的关卡为我的化身获得一些极其稀缺的修正和装备。我不记得崩溃到来的时候到底发生了什么，但和其他很多人一样，我被困在了矩阵中。我有一些非常模糊的记忆——实际上只有很少的一些图像和感觉，加上相当多的混乱。然后我在急诊室里醒过来。我的室友发现我瘫软在沙发上，仍旧保持接入，显示屏上冒着静电。他拔掉了插头，把我送到了医院。
过了几天我才出院。在那段时间里，我大部分时间都迷失了方向，医院里挤满了其他在崩溃事件中遭受痛苦的人——包括几十个和我一样被困在网上的人。医生说没有发现任何持久的神经损伤，所以他们让我带了一瓶止痛药回家，因为我仍然患有不停的偏头痛。在那时，我不知道我的生活已经改变。
几个星期、几个月过去了，其间我经历了一些……奇怪的遭遇。有时能听到窃窃私语，仿佛有看不见的人在跟我说话。今天，我知道那是我无意识地与电子设备互动时发出的噪音和电子提示。有时我看到了不存在的东西，数据流被我的大脑塑造成图像，以便我能理解它们。我周围的电子设备开始奇怪地运作。我把这些归咎于我的神经和创伤后压力，试图忽视这一切，直到这些变化变得如此明显，我再也不能视而不见了。我感到困惑和恐惧，向其他人寻求帮助，但我拜访的大多数“专家”都认为我是一个怪胎、疯子，或者压力过大。我开始担心自己会被关起来。
> 噢，尽管向我们哭诉吧。你可以随心所欲地牵动我们的心弦，但这并不能说服我，你的同类和你的AI盟友/创造者不会对泛人类构成威胁。你以前是不是黑客并不重要——你现在是一个突变体，一个自然界的怪胎。对我来说，你就是一颗等待爆炸的定时炸弹。
> Clockwork
> 这里需要指出的非常重要的一点是，并非所有的超链者都是由崩溃“创造”出来的。以我为例。崩溃发生时我正在山上徒步旅行，甚至几天后才听说这件事。在浮现之前，我从未遇到过AI，从未看到过电子幽灵，也从未接触过黑IC，甚至从未骇入过任何东西。然后在68年的某一天，我正在对一架无人机进行维护，在它的操作系统上运行诊断程序，这时我意识到我的通讯链被意外地关闭了。一开始我很困惑，我不知道我是如何在没有通讯链的情况下访问无人机的。在接下来的几周里，我做了一些实验，成功地复制了这种情况，甚至更进一步。那一天，我跳入了一架无人机，通过VR直接操纵它，没有使用通讯链，我开始知道我与众不同。我也从其他超链者那里听到过类似的故事——他们中的一些人甚至可以追溯到崩溃之前。所以不要认为我们是崩溃的产物，或是被AI操纵，或任何类似的胡言乱语。如果你这样做，你只是在表达你的无知。
> Inbus
> 第六纪已经见证了许多奇怪的事情，我相信在未来的岁月里，我们还会看到更奇怪的事情。
> Icarus
劇透 - :
The day of the Crash, I was killing time as I often did, hacking through the levels of Paranormal Crisis to obtain some ultra-scarce modifications and gear for an avatar of mine. I don’t remember exactly what happened when the Crash hit, but like many others, I was trapped in the Matrix. I have some very faint memories—just a few images and sensations really, plus a fair bit of confusion. Then I came to in an Emergency Room. My roommate had found me slumped on the couch, still jacked in, with static on the display screen. He pulled the plug and got me to a hospital.
It took a few days before I was released from the hospital. I was disoriented for most of that time, and the hospital was overwhelmed with other people who had suffered during the Crash—including dozens who had been trapped online, just like me. The doctors hadn’t found any lasting neurological damage they said, so they sent me home with a bottle of painkillers for the non-stop migraine I still had. At this point, I had no idea that my life had changed.
Some weeks and months passed, during which I experienced a few … strange encounters. Sometimes there where whispers as if unseen people were talking to me. Today I know it was the noise and electronic prompts from devices I had unconsciously interacted with. Sometimes I saw things that weren’t there, data traffic shaped into images by my brain so that I could understand them. Electronic devices started to function strangely around me. I chalked it on my nerves and post-traumatic stress, trying to ignore it all until the changes were so blatant that I couldn’t turn a blind eye anymore. I was confused and frightened, looking for help, but most of the "experts" I visited thought I was a freak, crazy, or overstressed. I started to worry that I was going to be locked away.
> Oh, cry me a river. You can pull our heart strings as long as you want, but that won’t persuade me that your kind and your AI allies/ creators are not a threat to metahumanity. It doesn’t matter if you were a hacker before—you’re a mutation now, a freak of nature. For me, you are just a ticking time bomb waiting to explode.
> Clockwork
> One very important point that needs to be made here is that not all technomancers were "created" by the Crash. Take me, for example. I was hiking in the mountains when the Crash hit, and didn’t even hear about until a few days afterward. Before my Emergence, I never met an AI, never saw a ghost in the machine, never had a run in with Black IC—heck, I never even hacked anything. Then one day back in ’68 I was doing maintenance on a drone, running diagnostics on its OS, when I realized my commlink had been accidentally turned off. It confused the hell out of me at first, I couldn’t figure out how I was accessing the drone with no ‘link. Over the next few weeks, though, I experimented a bit and managed to replicate the situation, and even go a bit further. The day I jumped into a drone, rigging it direct via VR, commlink-free, I knew I was something different. I’ve heard similar stories from other technomancers—some of them even dating to before the Crash. So don’t assume we’re a product of the Crash, or manipulated by AIs, or any other such nonsense. If you do, you’re just expressing your ignorance.
> Inbus
> The Sixth World has seen many strange things, and I’m sure we’ll see even stranger ones in the years to come.
> Icarus
随着新矩阵的设立和和各种通讯链、无线设备的分发，情况每周都在变得更糟。当我走在街上，每秒都有成千上万的提示、数据投影和传输信息向我倾泻而来，这让我难以忍受。数字世界中的流量越多，我就越难以调整和处理数据湍流。
> 我想这就像不断的，不可阻挡的读心术。如果心灵感应者存在，他们需要学会屏蔽任何与他们互动的人，甚至是靠近他们的人的想法。我不羡慕超链者，因为肯定有比人多得多的流量和设备。我不是电脑专家，但我知道有太多的进程在我的通讯链上运行，作为一个用户，我永远不会意识到这些进程，也不必担心它们。你们超链者是怎么处理这些的？
> Winterhawk
> 只是需要慢慢适应。随着时间的推移，我们中的大多数人都能很好地过滤掉噪音，并真正享受我们周围持续不断的活动带来的嗡嗡声。冥想可以帮助解决这个问题。每个超链者都曾在某个时候面临过噪音问题，不同的人会制定不同的应对策略。对一些人来说，这比其他人更难。而有些人根本应付不来，这让他们发疯。
> Otaku-Zuku
> 这就像是自动驾驶(非电子化)。当你每天沿着同一条路开车时，你可能会突然意识到你一直在想一些事情，而不记得过去几分钟的驾驶情况，尽管你以某种方式在交通中穿梭而没有撞车或杀死某个人。它是在潜意识中发生的，因为所有的行动和动作都在你的大脑中根深蒂固，就像你在启动汽车时启动的程序一样。好吧，我已经习惯了在无线世界中导航，以至于我几乎没有意识到我周围的流量，或者我是如何与它互动的，尽管我可以很容易地集中注意力并在需要的时候注意到它。
> Inbus
劇透 - :
With the installation of the new Matrix and the distribution of commlinks and all kinds of wireless devices, it became worse each week. To walk down a street and have thousands of prompts, data projections, and transmissions raining down on me every second was hard to bear. The more traffic there was clouding the digital ether, the more I had trouble adjusting and dealing with the data flow.
> I imagine it would be much like constant, unstoppable mind reading. If telepaths existed,they would need to learn to shut out the thoughts of any person they interact with or whoeven comes close to them. I don’t envy technomancers, since there is surely a lot moretraffic and devices than people. I’m no computer wiz, but I know there are a plethora of processes going on my commlink that I, as a user, will never recognize or have to worry about. How do you technomancers deal with that?
> Winterhawk
> It just takes getting used to. Over time, most of us adapt well to filtering out the noise, and actually enjoy the constant hum of activity around us. Meditation helps. Every technomancer has faced the noise problem at some point, and different people develop different coping strategies. For some it is harder than others. Some can’t cope at all, and it drives them crazy.
> Otaku-Zuku
> It is like driving on autopilot (non-electronically speaking). When you drive the same way every day, you may suddenly realize that you’ve been thinking about something and can’t remember anything about the past few minutes of driving, even though you somehow navigated traffic without crashing or killing anyone. It happens subconsciously because all the actions and moves are ingrained in your brain, like a program that you just start when starting your car. Well, I’ve gotten so used to navigating a wireless world that I’m barely even conscious of the traffic around me or how I’ve interacted with it, though I can easily concentrate and notice it if I need to.
> Inbus
与今天的许多超链者不同，我当时没有奢求有现成的人可以教我这些东西。我只能依靠自己，我不敢告诉大多数人因为他们不会相信我或者会认为我疯了。今天我所能做到的一切都是我自己通过训练和坚持完成的，因为我别无选择。我为此感到非常自豪。我找到了自己的路。
> 站在学术立场上，简单说一下。就目前的科学理解而言，尚不完全清楚泛人类生物计算机(超链者们)是如何运作的，他们的能力来源是什么。遗传倾向似乎是一个关键因素，并且不是所有浮现的个体都被困在了矩阵中，或者之前对数字世界有某种高度的亲和力。据科学家所知，这也不完全是一种神经元或生物电现象。当前盛行的理论是，浮现者是人类物种的一个真正的进化分支，就像觉醒者一样。
> The Smiling Bandit
