I went online for the first time using a friend’s Nintendo Wii today. It’s pretty cool as a step in the right direction, but it is also really clumsy. The coolest application of it was probably going to YouTube and watching videos on the tv screen.

I also looked at this website and discovered a lot of interesting things: my hunch about information scales is I think going to pan out to be very accurate. When you’re browsing a web page on the tv screen, the text is too small really to be of us. The headlines to the blog posts stand out, of course. But even the words I have been putting into bold etc weren’t really showing up too much. You can, of course, zoom into sections using the Wii controller, but this is quite haphazard for browsing a webpage in the way which we are used to think of them now.

However, my money is on the Wii as being the leader of interface re-adjustment in the tech world. What I would like to see is essentially a two handed Wii interface which allows me to navigate my computer three dimensionally in space. I can just use my hands to pick up and fling aside FireFox panes, or pull Photoshop into the foreground, and then I can zoom into a word, picture or segment of text on a web page and it will re-configure my center of attention based around that focal point, as opposed to me having to scroll and click around on web pages.

I’m only beginning to be able to express these visions in ordinary language, and it is a very fun process to be pushing myself in that way. There seem to be a hell of a lot of technological changes about to happen very rapidly on and off line…

Oh, one other thing: in that stupid SkyMall book they have on the airplane, the first two pages were big advertisements for eyewear which allows you to project videos into basically sunglasses or a visor. Just wait until people wear those things constantly along with headphones. You won’t be able to ever know if someone is looking at or listening to you whatsoever. Mass psychosis here we come!

PS. I finished Morihei Ueshiba’s Art of Peace last night. One of the passages in it says something about a weapon in the Art of Peace being looking people in the eye and smiling at them.