The main thing I hate about games like Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution is that they take classic traditional human ways of expressing oneself creatively, and force you through the narrow funnel of some company’s technological vision. Why hasn’t someone invented a game you can play where any normal acoustic guitar can be used as your “weapon” or your input device? What about a clarinet, or a saxophone? And how unnatural of a concept is it to have to dance only in a up-down-left-right-diagonal space? I mean, the basic concept is cool, but these sorts of non-standard interface devices seem to be lagging so far behind what’s possible that it’s almost laughable.
Which is why I propose that the Mandala OS be able to take any kind of input from any type of device or prop. It can be something mass-produced, something user-customized, or something which is an abstract non-representational form.
The main focus on human computer interface, I think, should be on the power of ritual as a method of interacting with both the visible and invisible worlds. This is a major factor of why I’ve become so interested in a sort of intuitive urban revival of shamanic practices: little rituals I carry out in my room using magic rocks, burning leaves, and whatever other types of objects I can press into service to achieve my creative ends.
I see absolutely no reason why we can’t have a massively popular technology which teaches people to solve problems creatively, how to access the wonders of their intuition and subconscious, and how to tap into Fundamental Universal Laws & Patterns Known to the Ancients™
The Mandala OS is the ideal breeding ground for the post-computer post-scarcity shaman, the roving troubadour, the bard, the actor, the comedian, the tragedian. It should reward you for goofing off, and encourage exactly the types of behaviors we need so badly to see to instantiate a Global Renaissance!
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This makes me think of something along the lines of analog or vector based computing. Things which are not based on simple bits, on yes/no categories, but which allow for a completely smooth transition from state to state.
Waves, rather than particles… Frequencies.
Lookup the Steve jobs bill gates D5 interview - Steve is pretty tight lipped about what apple is working on, but interestingly enough Gates mentions something about a vision of a room where all the walls are computer screens. If I remener right, he said that in the ideal situation if you picked up something like say - a tennis racket ( a real one ) the walls in the room would change to suit that - perhaps creating a tennis court simulation. Who knows how the actual implementation would turn out - I still think that’s an interesting idea.
Yeah theres a Ray Bradbury story about that, speaking of bardic rememberers… I believe I’ve seen the video you’re describing.
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[...] As computing power increases, the size and shapes of the objects we now know as “computers” will necessarily morph. What we think of as a computer now will eventually become a ritual object with embedded capabilities within a multidimensional experiential ecosystem, seamlessly combining elements of the natural world with the wondrous capabilities of imaginal possibility which seem to be inherent in the human experience. [...]