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Second Life offers a grid that is a microcosm of the connectedness that the Internet, operating as a pervasive, worldwide grid, promises.
Second Life offers a peek into possibilities of what the world might look and feel like when the internet-as-grid connects all facets of how we live. I’m not talking about how it may look visually, don’t get too hung up on that, but how it functions - or more-so, supports how we as humans choose to function. At a time when it does so in the way that it almost becomes invisible.
Doc Searls talks about the Giant Zero - how the internet potentially puts us zero distance from each other. Second Life, because of its contained grid nature, provides interesting glimpses into that giant zero existence.
One such glimpse I experienced the other day while in SL.
I was trying out a media browser in-world that offered a screen where you can choose to view different things like youtube and google videos, see images you load into the browser, open a url, play streaming audio. Nothing overly special. You are able to also add anything you watch as a favourite, like bookmarking. Where it gets interesting is these favourites, your favourites, go with you so that if you are at another of these media-browsers anywhere else in SL you can step up and see the things you’ve favourited at any other browser. There’s no login or signup or password. You are recognised as you and your favourites are available (the owner of each media-browser has ability to set permissions).
Now just imagine that. You are at a friends place and you say, “gee mate, you should see this great youtube vid I saw” then you pickup the remote to your friends TV and the remote automatically recognises it’s you, knows your a friend and as you press the Favourites button on your friends remote it’s your favourites that appear on his screen, ready to select the youtube video you’d saved yesterday … at yet another friends place or your home or a public library or on your mobile on the way. The same could apply for any digital media that fills your life.
Instantly you have access to your own set of data that is user centric and goes with you .. even though you don’t actually ‘carry’ it around. In a sense it ‘follows’ you on the internet connected grid that exists by connecting all the devices we encounter as we go about our lives.
Now okay, none of this isn’t anything people haven’t written or spoken about before. Certainly though the discussions around identity and intellectual property and personal data portability became very clear to me. But there was an enlightening moment as to how all these things could work together, and how in doing so our lives would be made richer, and just how very close it is.
All this in a fleeting encounter in a virtual world that many consider just a game.
In my view it’s much more for those who choose to look, and, as I said in the beginning, one of the things it certainly is, is a microcosm of a future connected world.
Dave
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Moving home.
Internet being disconnected.
Only have patchy access via my phone.
By time get line activated and new internet service could be a week.
See you on the other side.
Dave
HiveMind [http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/]
Interesting what vanity searches turn up sometimes. Often lead you to services and sites either never seen or long forgotten.
A link to me turned up in my email this morning pointing to the Flickr search tool over at HiveMind [http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/].
It does really fast searches on tags, interestingness, user, contacts and allows searching by license too, which makes it a great tool to find Creative Commons materials.
Check it out.
Dave
Technorati Tags: flickr, hive mind, creativity, tools
the old man carried the tray of food,
his spritliness and white tennis sneakers
belying his age by cardigan, hearing aid and grey hair.
he found a table and after orientating the tray
he glanced for the woman who’s food was at the other end.
then seemingly as a first instinct, naturally,
he unwrapped the paper napkin
wrapped tightly around the plastic cutlery
and placed them, precisely, intentfully
at the other end of the tray.
at that moment, I secretly hoped
that the subtle things from previous generations
that speak of love
wouldn’t be lost in the cacophony
of a food hall on christmas eve
Went to Christmas music extravaganza put on by my mate Mike’s band Geezers (as in old). Great fun time.
Now the secrets. Enjoy!… or in Mike’s case ’suffer in ya jocks’.
Photos posted to Twitter from my phone - one, two.
And finally, some audio captured off my Camera. Two and a half songs: geezers version of “eight days a week” then some noise and @fang filling in with strumming while tracking a sound fault (or maybe that *was* thesound fault), then “everywhere you go you always take the weather”, just for UncleNick, and half of “sunny afternoon”. It’s all unedited, use your FF button.
Raw audio here - listen at own risk.
Dave
all my internet friends - Lyrics
Amanda French wrote a very melodic and nice song inspired by her Internet friends - aptly titled “all my internet friends“.
It’s a witty song, and I guess to many that’s all it will be, which is fine, however to me it somehow seems very poignant.
I think it holds within it two lines that are a beacon to the spirit of what a lot of people perceive with their being, yet are unable to encapsulate and articulate.
The first : “Saying Love and information want only to be free” - is a wonderful statement which injects humanity into the information age - putting love in its rightful place - the basis on what connection is about.
The second line that hit me was “We’re a net, and we have chosen; To be knotted tightly to each other” - which focuses directly on what the net really is - US, WE, the PEOPLE. This is why the net has real power, because it’ not about computers and wires and screens. It’s about flesh and blood. This sent me immediately to thinking “I reckon that’s what Doc Searls is really saying about it being the world live web“. Not just live as in immediate though, live as in not dead, living.
So listen and listen to the song and read the lyrics, but beyond that feel the spirit of it.
Thanks Amanda, thanks all my Internet friends.
Peace.
Dave
“…..
I feel strong because
All my internet friends are here with me
Saying Love and information want only to be free
And we’ll take no crap from anyone who says that they know better
We won’t stand for that because we all came here together
We’re remaining interwoven
We’re remaining interwoven
We’re a net, and we have chosen
To be knotted tightly to each other
You be client, I’ll be server
We won’t ever have to be alone”
cc cc Amanda French
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