Savanna [08.09.05 01:05 PM]

i *definitely* agree with that. =)

all those futuristic sci-fi books about a huge interconnected data net is sorta slowly becoming reality.

what i think would be *really* kewl...is since we already have xml/rss/atom stuff with trackback features on blogs and the like for communication, to see when we get that with audio/video at some point. podcasting is of course picking up and stuff, and vlogging too is starting to become 'popular', but it's still a 'static' medium whereas text is now a dynamic medium.

i wonder how long that will take?

that would be *really* interactive. could you imagine a wikipedia/blog thing where you can comment via video/audio/text on video/audio/text files and it all flows seamlessly?

i guess that would be 'web 3.0' or maybe even 'web 4.0' =)

  Ross Stapleton-Gray [08.13.05 10:32 PM]

But what do you suppose it is we'll be *doing* at those rates/fidelity?

I recall hearing Pavel Curtis relating some findings (from PARC, I believe), re two individuals assembling a bicycle, one in a room with the parts, and another in a room with the instructions. IIRC, he'd said there were two big knees in the curve of ability: the first when there was simplex text (so the guy with the instructions could relate them along), and the other with interactive audio... video wasn't a dramatic improvement.

But how will my kids (now 7 and 4) see the world differently because of technology, when they're older? Is it because they'll readily find any and every person sharing a common interest, when they choose to pursue it, or because they'll never want for detailed facts on a given item or situation? What? While the technologists are mashing media, could we speculate on what this all might enable?