Somehow, someway, the planets have alligned.
I have Pixies tickets.
The day can't get any better. I'm having a hard time not turning into a frenetic nutball here at work.
I have Pixies tickets.
The day can't get any better. I'm having a hard time not turning into a frenetic nutball here at work.
Yeah, the Head Map thing. I was turned on to it by a friend in SF who runs in some really interesting spiritually connected circles. I'm not sure what the implications would be across the different class systems, but i do think that it would be relatively cheap to set up a first generation ad-hoc system with a low barrier to entry for the end user. obviously it would probably catch on first with techie people and college kids. From the comments I read in the news post, everyone seemed to think that'd be the next coming of Big Brother, but the internet really didn't develop that way. and i don't think this would/will either. If you had envisioned the internet in 1965, people would have said the same thing. Obviously if it's handled by a large corporation or the US government it will have the possibility of being abused, but from reading what these guys have to say, it seems like their idea is more in line with open source development and creating something that isn't owned by anyone and incapable of being controlled by any one entity. with the idea being that it's usefulness is derived from how different people use it.
To be honest, I only read the first few pages of the .pdf doc they have on the site. I went through the flash piece, and had a really interesting conversation with my friend, but that's about it. For me, the real interesting part is how computers are largely a 2D, unemotional and completely "outward" experience, sitting at a desk in from of a big monitor and a box, where as something like this would more closely bring technology into your inner life and it would be the first sign of computers fading away and becoming a more behind the scenes thing. The internet becoming more spatial and time related, rather then a static collection of pages, something that enhances your interaction with other people and your surroundings rather then what it is right now, a medium of communication.
ok, it's my turn to apologize for the heavy winded, totally non footnoted and over generalized mush that i call text, above.
{ did that make any sense? }