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symbioidljI downloaded NeoBook, which I want to try. It's a hypermedia publishing tool. Not hypertext, but pure multimedia. I can input URLS, allow interaction, play MP3s through a sort of plugin, link to various parts... it's sorta like a javascript engine but different. It's a simple system to use, cuz you just drag objects and lay them out onto a page, and from there, you assign properties to the objects(ie: size, style, font, color, URL's to link to, commands that are executed, etc...) It looks like what I might need to use in order to create my Akashic Record for my story/game concept. The Akashic Record is like an encyclopedia of this world I have in my head. It will have maps, historical references, geology, physiology, flora, fauna, sociology, religion, philosophy, etc... Everything I feel like putting into this story world I have in my head, I will throw into the Akashic Record. It will be completely hypermedia. I want to sort of create a world that is beyond a simple novel. I want to have an encyclopedia. I want a story that links into Akashic Record entries, pulls up data as you read it, so it's more like a hypermedia reference/annotation system.
Hypermedia annotation and reference systems are being overlooked, and I think that this is the future of information.
Hypermedia annotation and reference systems are being overlooked, and I think that this is the future of information.
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I downloaded NeoBook, which I want to try. It's a hypermedia publishing tool. Not hypertext, but pure multimedia. I can input URLS, allow interaction, play MP3s through a sort of plugin, link to various parts... it's sorta like a javascript engine but different. It's a simple system to use, cuz you just drag objects and lay them out onto a page, and from there, you assign properties to the objects(ie: size, style, font, color, URL's to link to, commands that are executed, etc...) It looks like what I might need to use in order to create my Akashic Record for my story/game concept. The Akashic Record is like an encyclopedia of this world I have in my head. It will have maps, historical references, geology, physiology, flora, fauna, sociology, religion, philosophy, etc... Everything I feel like putting into this story world I have in my head, I will throw into the Akashic Record. It will be completely hypermedia. I want to sort of create a world that is beyond a simple novel. I want to have an encyclopedia. I want a story that links into Akashic Record entries, pulls up data as you read it, so it's more like a hypermedia reference/annotation system.
Hypermedia annotation and reference systems are being overlooked, and I think that this is the future of information. <a href'"http://www.everything2.com"="href'"http://www.everything2.com"">everything2.com</a> is an example of what I think will start to happen on the internet. Communities will more and more be fostered by innovative ideas of interaction. Information and Communication/Community will be further and further entwined together. The trend so far has been companies trying to push e-commerce and search engines to provide means to find info, and simple communication tools(a la: telnet talkers, IM clients, e-mail, IRC, MUDs(and variants), etc...) I believe the downfall of the net has been the web. I hate saying it, because in one way, the trend towards design and style is good, images are good, various media is good. But it seems that content has been lost to a large degree. Style over Substance has been the norm for the past few years. We are, I think, going back to the original intent of the net. Community and Communication, including the sharing of Data in a much more interesting manner. Slashdot is one example, Blogger another, LiveJournal another, Everything2.com another. These sorts of things are the future. But this is only a part of what I'm thinking about. It will evolve into the ability to interact with each other in a limited community based upon information sharing, commenting, crosslinking, referencing. The net, I believe, MUST break into small communities that have close ties with each other. Pages won't be considered pages, as such... Geocities was probably on the right track in it's terminology(communities of like minded individuals), but they became a corporate page-hosting site that essentially lost any sort of community. It may be that it's because they're approach was wrong. Directories and sub-directories of various "communities" really doesn't encourage one to really explore a "community"
I see LiveJournal as a very interesting model for the future of the net. An interactive community which has sub-communities. These communities may link and be related to other communities. The inhabitants of a sub-community still have individual "sites" but they tend to form a sort of society of information, all individuals banding together, not only to link to pages as a passive activity(the past), but co-creating content by posting comments(the present - similar to LiveJournal and slashdot), and eventually the ability to mark up pages within the community and have a discussion forum(similar to slashdot and everything2.com) All these main communities will link to related communities in a sort of inter-community system of linkage. Each community can be viewed as a city in itself. There are a large number of possibilites that can happen, and it's through experiments like this and the others i've mentioned where we see what the REAL meaning of the internet is. e-commerce is just an overblown fad. It's here to stay, of course, but the hype is much greater than the reality. The original ideals of the net aren't lost. They went underground for a while, but they're back. We are seeking community in our modern day and age. We sought it in past networked technologies, and to a limited extent, we've achieved that, but we are back now, and with a vengeance. OpenSource also somehow intimately wound up in the whole process. It's about liberty, community, sharing, information exchange. Without the ideals of Open Source and Hacking (in it's truest sense), we wouldn't have these concepts today, and in the end, I truly believe that the hackers and open-sourcers will win. It will be a difficult fight because we are working against terrible forces that want to control the flow of information, they want to manipulate it and alter it, but they don't see their manipulation of information as art, but as science. As method, as a way to achieve a goal and one goal only. To make money. That is the pure and simple purpose of most media. Not all media, mind you, but most. And people don't really understand what implications this poses for their freedom, in terms of: Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information... There is a battle being fought for the very hearts and souls of the people. I don't know if I'm an optimist or a pessimist. I can see it turning out both ways. Corporate ruled world, or a world of liberty and community. It's up to us. I have faith in our generation and the younger generations. I think that because their brains are learning to process data in a networked world, their ways of thinking will be fundamentally different than those of the people from the past 100 years. Certainly knowledge itself will change the attitudes and concepts that arise, but more than anything it will be the WAY in which we think that will determine the outcome of this so called struggle. Linearity has it's time and space, but we are expanding into a sort of multidimensionality when it comes to processes of thought. Our cybernetic interaction and interface with first, computers, and secondly, networked systems, has given us new ways to conceive of new things and integrate the information in a more coherent, yet chaotic manner. I do believe in a sort of Eschatological Collapse of some point. A singulairty of some sort. Our brains are adapting to this strange new world. But we are still essentially apes. Apes who think they know it all. And that is my fear. That we take our pride and ego and let it prevail over proper precaution. It means we need to approach these new issues of technology with an open mind and heart, to not place an a priori system of rules(ie: profit) on these inventions. Yet, we still have a core fundamental value and that is humanism. We desire to retain our humanity. I believe our humanity will essentially remain, but we will transcend mere humanity into a more active, intelligent, thinking society and dare I say it, organism. I do sort of believe in a kind of collective consciousness, or supra-mundane mind, if you will. Bla bla bla. To be continued. Sorry this is so damned long.
Peace,
dave
Hypermedia annotation and reference systems are being overlooked, and I think that this is the future of information. <a href'"http://www.everything2.com"="href'"http://www.everything2.com"">everything2.com</a> is an example of what I think will start to happen on the internet. Communities will more and more be fostered by innovative ideas of interaction. Information and Communication/Community will be further and further entwined together. The trend so far has been companies trying to push e-commerce and search engines to provide means to find info, and simple communication tools(a la: telnet talkers, IM clients, e-mail, IRC, MUDs(and variants), etc...) I believe the downfall of the net has been the web. I hate saying it, because in one way, the trend towards design and style is good, images are good, various media is good. But it seems that content has been lost to a large degree. Style over Substance has been the norm for the past few years. We are, I think, going back to the original intent of the net. Community and Communication, including the sharing of Data in a much more interesting manner. Slashdot is one example, Blogger another, LiveJournal another, Everything2.com another. These sorts of things are the future. But this is only a part of what I'm thinking about. It will evolve into the ability to interact with each other in a limited community based upon information sharing, commenting, crosslinking, referencing. The net, I believe, MUST break into small communities that have close ties with each other. Pages won't be considered pages, as such... Geocities was probably on the right track in it's terminology(communities of like minded individuals), but they became a corporate page-hosting site that essentially lost any sort of community. It may be that it's because they're approach was wrong. Directories and sub-directories of various "communities" really doesn't encourage one to really explore a "community"
I see LiveJournal as a very interesting model for the future of the net. An interactive community which has sub-communities. These communities may link and be related to other communities. The inhabitants of a sub-community still have individual "sites" but they tend to form a sort of society of information, all individuals banding together, not only to link to pages as a passive activity(the past), but co-creating content by posting comments(the present - similar to LiveJournal and slashdot), and eventually the ability to mark up pages within the community and have a discussion forum(similar to slashdot and everything2.com) All these main communities will link to related communities in a sort of inter-community system of linkage. Each community can be viewed as a city in itself. There are a large number of possibilites that can happen, and it's through experiments like this and the others i've mentioned where we see what the REAL meaning of the internet is. e-commerce is just an overblown fad. It's here to stay, of course, but the hype is much greater than the reality. The original ideals of the net aren't lost. They went underground for a while, but they're back. We are seeking community in our modern day and age. We sought it in past networked technologies, and to a limited extent, we've achieved that, but we are back now, and with a vengeance. OpenSource also somehow intimately wound up in the whole process. It's about liberty, community, sharing, information exchange. Without the ideals of Open Source and Hacking (in it's truest sense), we wouldn't have these concepts today, and in the end, I truly believe that the hackers and open-sourcers will win. It will be a difficult fight because we are working against terrible forces that want to control the flow of information, they want to manipulate it and alter it, but they don't see their manipulation of information as art, but as science. As method, as a way to achieve a goal and one goal only. To make money. That is the pure and simple purpose of most media. Not all media, mind you, but most. And people don't really understand what implications this poses for their freedom, in terms of: Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information... There is a battle being fought for the very hearts and souls of the people. I don't know if I'm an optimist or a pessimist. I can see it turning out both ways. Corporate ruled world, or a world of liberty and community. It's up to us. I have faith in our generation and the younger generations. I think that because their brains are learning to process data in a networked world, their ways of thinking will be fundamentally different than those of the people from the past 100 years. Certainly knowledge itself will change the attitudes and concepts that arise, but more than anything it will be the WAY in which we think that will determine the outcome of this so called struggle. Linearity has it's time and space, but we are expanding into a sort of multidimensionality when it comes to processes of thought. Our cybernetic interaction and interface with first, computers, and secondly, networked systems, has given us new ways to conceive of new things and integrate the information in a more coherent, yet chaotic manner. I do believe in a sort of Eschatological Collapse of some point. A singulairty of some sort. Our brains are adapting to this strange new world. But we are still essentially apes. Apes who think they know it all. And that is my fear. That we take our pride and ego and let it prevail over proper precaution. It means we need to approach these new issues of technology with an open mind and heart, to not place an a priori system of rules(ie: profit) on these inventions. Yet, we still have a core fundamental value and that is humanism. We desire to retain our humanity. I believe our humanity will essentially remain, but we will transcend mere humanity into a more active, intelligent, thinking society and dare I say it, organism. I do sort of believe in a kind of collective consciousness, or supra-mundane mind, if you will. Bla bla bla. To be continued. Sorry this is so damned long.
Peace,
dave
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Date: 2001-02-23 08:53 am (UTC)Also...technology may gain power for some individuals, and what does too much power do? It corrupts, it distorts, it twists. I am not very optimisitc about our future, however I believe its in balance with the planet. It can't be avoided.
I believe in a collective conciousness as well, btw.
equilibrium
Date: 2001-02-26 11:17 pm (UTC)PLUR,
sym
Community vs. Individual; Cycles.
Date: 2001-03-01 06:03 am (UTC)I think to make any sort of observation on the Grand Unifying Metaphysics of the world is futile and unfounded. I'm still in the foetal stages of my philosophy studies, and that may or may have something to do with it. That's my snobbery on That.
As for the Net (Not the Web) being the Next Big Step, that's exactly what the Web meant to capitalize on. What the Net intended to accomplish (as far as I understand it, the facilitation transmitting Information) has been Mutated through the conduits of both Man and Machine.
Lofty topics; I wish I had more brainpower to be doing this, but I'm in the process of quitting smoking so the going's a little rough. Plus, The Smiths can be delightfully distracting.
Treating Technology as an entity in and of itself can be a dangerous thing, I think. After all, no matter How you look at it, Man Made Machine. We must accept the responsibilities and kudos that come with the title of Creator, and the minute we really start Fearing this thing we've made we're in more trouble than we might think, maybe.
No idea where I'm going with this. Find me on resort, Sym (I'm "so" there, right) and we'll go in greater detail.
And you should also unlink my webpage and journal, methinks, from your journal. Them's private!
;a.