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Holographic Internet Interface
My site currently has 6,247 posts and 24,045 comments. For some time now, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the day when the next quantum leap is made in how we use computers and how information is organized and retrieved. It’s the sort of thing which, as a heavy internet user, writer and developer for over ten years, I can sort of intuitively perceive outlines of the shape it will take.
The closest I can put it into words right this second has to do with reference points and keyword clusters. Say if you used this futuristic data visualization tool on my website at some point in the future, you’d be able to browse through my site in ways which I myself never (consciously) intended. Information will be broken out into tiny bits which can be assembled and re-assembled based on all kinds of different criteria. I imagine it to be a lot more like free association: one idea, concept or even visual theme links to another and back again, while you can zoom in and out in depth (which would allow you to delve down into whole paragraphs, related image clusters, or read the entire posts and comments around a particular subject. Then, alternatively, you could bring in references from all over: from pre-defined data sources, or from intelligently-selected books, or films, or whatever.
While awaiting such a transition, I’ve been for at least a year re-configuring how I write in anticipation of this development: even if it doesn’t happen for five or ten years. But I just have this sort of hunch that when it does suddenly occur, this technological leap, that all of a sudden the information I’ve compiled over the past five years on this site will suddenly spring to new life, taking on a new shape I was only dimly prepared for: a visual sort of music composed of strands of humming luminous information…
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May 16th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Sort of like this.
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?w1=boodle
More like this.
http://datamining.typepad.com/gallery/blog-map-gallery.html
But, more like something you can imagine but can’t see.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Its ephemeralization. You are looking for ways to ephemeralize the internet, which is pretty ephemeral already. Here is another cool article I found about it:
Ephemeralization against Beurocracy
This may sound corny, but when I read your post I imagined the paperclip dude on Word 2000. But what if he wasn’t annoying? What if he was really cool and kind of like a smart puppy, a little puppy dog that was really into you and everything you are into. So he keeps brining you specially tailored gifts of information.
This is more ephemeral than the internet we have now, but I think its the way thought works according to the law of attraction.
But here is the rub: The puppy can bring you some really bad information. If you start with a really bad idea and run with it…you can get really far in the wrong direction.
lesser gods.
I guess the place where everything is instantaneous is the astral. Maybe the Universe is heading in that direction. I like the idea that we are in school here learning stuff in a slower denser environment. Eventually we will transcend time and space to the point that the Universe will be something else.
I am picturing what will come next is everyday people having amazing powers and being unable to be controlled. I think this is what the intensification of ephermalization will bring. Like for example, people downloading the plans to make a rocket suit off the internet and building it and blasting off from their backyards.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Another thing I thought of is that your ideas about storing and retrieving information is the way our minds seem to work already.
As it is Google is already an extension of my brain. We will eventually have these types of software, or thinware or whatever, you are envisioning incorporated into our minds. We will in a way have bionic minds. But we won’t be Darth Vader, we will still be us. Because really all we are is infomation organized in a particular way.
We will just be more of what we already are. But once again, that can get you in trouble fast! What if you already are Darth Vader-like and then you get a bionic brain?
Still though, I think it will even out when everyone else is bionic too.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
The corruption would be too much to resist. If I know the rebels against my plans for world domination etc. rely on the puppy I have the puppy feed them the yummiest disinfo I can make up so they chase their tails forever. Like the UFO community but on the astral plane.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Well I was assuming the puppy was not being subverted but gave you exactly what you wanted…..until you hung yourself.
I am just thinking of all the internet searches I have done and the places they have taken me. Places that ultimately turned out to be blind alleys…dead ends.
The puppy would work according to the law of attraction. I really think our mids are like the puppy already.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
The revolution will not be televised because the puppy won’t take you to the You Tube no matter how much you try. The puppy is alive and the puppy is evil. Beware! You have already experienced the disinfo campaign of the puppy.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am
The puppy’s only evil if someone else trains him first. I’d written a comment (and a rather long one at that) back in March about this. It seems to tie into what Ted is talking about here…
May 17th, 2008 at 10:11 am
sorry, put that link in the wrong place. I mean what Ted is talking about in this post about the Holographic Internet Interface.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:51 am
The puppy implies godlike knowledge. How do you determine which god you have if the puppy controls the information you receive about god?
May 17th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Well the thing is, hopefully the puppy is a speed reader and is also really really in tune with what you want. I think those would be the two biggest Godlike qualities of the Puppy.
So Maybe the puppy could be a double agent and gives you false info. But to me that still would be better than the Puppy being smarter than you and ignoring what you ask for, and instead giving you wnat you really need. Because then the puppy would no longer be your servant but your master.
I mean maybe that would be a good thing, but I don’t know how such a puppy could be built. Because it would have to be built by a truly wise person with absolute knowledge and absolute justice.
So, I think we will have to settle for a puppy with lesser godlike qualities serving people with less than godlike interests and motivations.
I mean, would you want to puppy to tell you “Sure, I heard you. You want more info about the illuminati and the Central banking system, but really what you need to do is get out of your underwear, take a shower, put on some clothes and go outside and try to meet a girl! or at least talk to other people! Get some fresh air for Chrissakes!”
The puppy ain’t gonna do that.
May 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Yeah, but most people won’t know it’s a lesser puppy because they’ll depend on it for info.
Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee!
May 17th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Oh I didn’t read this string first. Now I get the puppy thing. I’ve often thought about this analogy, especially in relation to dogs, so it makes sense to me. I was using the phrase “tethered analytic agents” for a while, which you would be able to train and customize yourself. I think what these kinds of entities would be most adept at is scanning frequencies of information which our brains aren’t necessarily designed for. Like if you took the concept of infra-red or ultra-violet, and then imagined that information existed on a spectrum of frequencies like that…
Just shooting out ideas.
May 18th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
This product seems to really be in development. No puppy, just a frog.
http://www.frogdesign.com/news/frogconcept-a-digital-escape-05162008.html
May 18th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Whether or not the puppy (or frog) is good or evil would depend on who trained it. If it’s a publically accessible one, then we’re basically talking about a more advanced, self-aware google. Then yeah, there’s a good chance of disinfo all around…
But if the puppy is something you owned, something you bought, kept, cared for, and trained, then the puppy would be loyal to you and your interests. It’s all about who owns it, and I think demand for personally trainable puppies would be so high, they’d have to exist.
And that frog thing is just terrifying. They ought to just call it the ostrich… (heads in the sand and all that)
May 20th, 2008 at 5:07 am
My route into imagining this next step begins with my desktop: I want to never close another window again. Nothing I write, nothing I read ver becomes just a file name buried in a folder or a name in my browser history. The pages just recede into the distance of my deep desktop and related topics cluster. I imagine it would look like a galaxy, with different dense points. The desk top would become something like a search engine because the connections between things I’ve encountered could be used to find other desktops with some similarity and some difference, making my galaxy of information a little less centered on me. It might serve as a clue to what my blindspots are. Searching might even take on a purely visual component: I’ve never seen the “information that is coded red” interact like that with the “information that is coded blue.” I wonder what is bringing them together?
But this is all surface stuff that would depend on our ability to give each web page or book or word document the right colors and the right amount of mass. I imagine that this could happen the way google does now and the way we add to the organization with our key words, bookmarks, file names. But I am excited about more passive labeling like your computer being able notice your level of excitment with a particular paragraph because your pupils widen or your heart rate picks up or you release more serotonin.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Webbed feet.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
I was using the word “proximity” to describe this several months ago on this site. I know exactly what you’re referring to, as I’ve had the same vision basically. You do need a timeline element as well though, I think - but that becomes just another filter for data.