Comments on: Bardic Ritual Mnemonic Onomatopeia Charades Interface #mandalaOS

By: MANDALA OS. Ubiquitous Spiritual Computing Meets Ambient Animist Intelligence Systems - [tmbchr]â„¢

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:08:50 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: #timboucher #tmbchr @omnivateLLC

#timboucher #tmbchr @omnivateLLC — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:42:55 +0000

Yeah theres a Ray Bradbury story about that, speaking of bardic rememberers… I believe I’ve seen the video you’re describing.

By: boontdustie

boontdustie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:26:13 +0000

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.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:59:12 +0000

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.