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The MAGICIAN: a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a
Sparc, and a Cray on the table in front of him --- all
running the same program with the same GUI. An infinity
sign is over his head.
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The HIGH PRIESTESS: a woman holding the Documentation,
closed and concealed. The crescent moon is showing on
an Indigo behind her.
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The EMPEROR: Steve Jobs sitting on a NeXT cube, holding
an optical disk vertically in his hand.
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The EMPRESS: A secretary with a NeXT Machine.
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The HIEROPHANT: Bill Gates with two flunkies kneeling
before him, their faces averted, offering him floppy
disks. He wears a laptop computer on his head.
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The LOVERS: a PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC exchanging
software as an angel bathed in glory regards them.
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The CHARIOT: A man in a chariot, hurtling up an
exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes of
Technology (black) and Culture (white).
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STRENGTH: A woman holding the entire design and
implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind as she
corrects the final error. An infinity sign is over her
head.
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The HERMIT: An old hacker, white-bearded, burns the
midnight oil; its Star-of-David flame illuminates his
keyboard.
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The WHEEL OF FORTUNE: A rotating wheel. Cray is on the
side going down, despite its good technology; Smalltalk
is opposite it, and C++ is sitting on top. Four winged
beings -- a mouse, a turtle, a dog-cow, and a human --
look on.
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JUSTICE: A cold-faced woman holds a calculator in one
hand and a delete- key in the other.
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The HANGED MAN: A programmer is tied by his ankle to a
cable duct. His phase is completely shifted: he awakens
at sunset, he sleeps at dawn. His monitor is
reverse-video. He programs on, flawlessly, oblivious to
his circumstances.
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DEATH: A skeleton wielding a scythe surveys a field,
on which are scattered PDP-11s, Apple ]['s, IBM
360/91's, Xerox Alto's, and many other machines.
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TEMPERANCE: An angel stands with one foot on her chair
and one on the floor, as she copies files from one disk
to another. A cursor blinks from her chest.
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The DEVIL: The goat-headed Lord of the Pit stands on a
pile of Windows manuals, holding an inverted torch in
one hand. Two humans, male and female, are in chains at
his feet.
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The TOWER: An ivory tower is struck by a bolt of
lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure, are
hurtled to the ground.
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The STAR: A Mac is running its `warp' screen saver, in
a transient fragile moment of peace.
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The MOON: A wolf and a jackal are typing at two PC's. A
crayfish crawls out of a pool, offering suggestions
that may ultimately prove deadly. The moon shines
through a window.
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The SUN: A naked child riding a winged rocking horse
programs clever applications on a high-quality
workstation.
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JUDGEMENT: An angel blows a trumpet; all over the net,
web pages arise, to be rated Cool or not.
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The WORLD: A woman dances on the clouds, unclothed,
unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a 3-d mouse in each
hand. The four winged beings from the Wheel of Fortune
surround her.