When we sat down to analyze what makes Cowboy Bebop so unique, from its superfluid fight scenes to its insane grab bag of a soundtrack, we kept running into the same problem every episode. With all the kaleidoscope of references, philosophies, narratives, and forms, it seemed downright impossible to pull on just one thread to determine the philosophy of the CowBoy Bebop genre. It read ‘…been in 20
71, in the universe the bounty hunters who are gathering in a spaceship “BEBOP,” will play freely, without fear of risky things. They must create new dreams … BY BREAKING TRADITIONAL STYLES. The work, which becomes a new genre itself, will be called Cowboy Bebop.” (translated from the original Japanese)
Those last two sentences about breaking traditional styles and creating a new genre really gave us pause. You see, Cowboy Bebop isn’t just about great characters and deep thoughts. It’s about blurring the lines between three distinct genres, Syfy, Westerns, and Noir. Ray Bradbury tells us, “Science fiction is the fiction of revolutions. Revolutions in time, space, medicine, travel, and thought, above all science fiction is the fiction of warm-blooded human men and women, sometimes elevated and sometimes crushed by their machines.”
In other words, at the heart of any good sci-fi story (or digital currency) are people, in which machines are only a part. Bradberry’s words go a long way for us in explaining why we continually see digital currency offerings that are surprisingly heavy on technology. Make no mistake, technology is undoubtedly what got us here, and we have respect for those that came this far. However, today, the “user experience” of digital currencies is limited to a specific type of user. Only those who are tech-savvy can access digital currencies and leverage them. While this discrimination is unintentional, all current digital currencies’ functional and operational design inadvertently lock out non-tech-savvy people. The “user experience” will have to adjust its focus before any significant global adoption of digital currencies becomes a reality. To address the disconnect between digital currencies and a broader user base, we committed ourselves and our resources to challenge the “traditional style” of the current user interaction in the digital currency space. Identical in principles portrayed in Cowboy Bebop genre, where technology is simply the tool, Woolong Corp focuses on blurring the lines between a select demographic of tech-savvy users and a significantly broader user base, consisting of everyone that wants to engage in the digital currency revolution. Woolong Corp was created to change the current user experience and facilitate the next stage in digital currency evolution and adoption. What better collateral to start with than our BEP-20 Woolong Coin “WOO” (Trading Symbol: WLNG).
