Monday, October 20, 2008

Worth a T.V. Show, At Least

I've seen plots where someone is somehow able to access the internet directly from their brain, but it's always in some future where search actually works a lot better than now. I think it'd be more interesting if it was an alpha product given to a select few testers, and they had the same sort of problems iphone users and computer users in general have. Accidentaly twitter every random thought? Or try to solve a problem by searching for an answer only to spend the next half hour trying to figure out how to phrase the question so that you actually get pages about the subject you want?

It's lovely when new technology works in an emergency, but in reality, that's usually when it dissappears, or develops a hitch. I live in hurricane country- cell phones go down immediately, but mysteriously you can often get a text message through to people you can't call. In my opinion, such an approach offers more interesting areas of exploration. What if Facebook becomes a back-of-your-mind experience? What would happen if you mentally Googled every person you came into contact with? What happens when a server crashes? How does an individual keep track of what works, what doesn't, and how could we use that metadata?

Hmm, a T.V. show whose spin-offs could be internet services?
Or an internet show that maintained a T.V. presence to be backwards compatible to legacy wetware?

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