3d Cyberspace
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- fate
Neuromancer's got me on a futuristic kick.
What do you all think of 3d as a means to display and search information? What are the advantages to this? What would be the best means to implement?
Here are some models to consider http://www.cybergeography.org/at…
This is all purely conjecture...
- airey0
i think that unless our brains were trained to a high level of spatial understanding there would be more gun-toting employees at businesses using this method than the post office.
it works (theoretically) when using specific pieces information to create an overall picture (see Minority Report), to see the links between seemingly independant fragments of info but with everything? wow, people would go insane. streaming navigation such as big websites seem more where we are headed but hey, what do i know.
if it was feasible you'd need sepcially trained people (like the Mentats-human computers in Dune) to know how to get to the info. i mean i know people who can't fond what they want using google for f*%ks sake! how would they cope with such broad limitless methods!?!
it's an interesting thought though for sure!
- unfittoprint0
http://www.nestafuturelab.org/ev…
get with the program.
- DutchBoy0
that's nice unfit..!
albeit verrry slow on me ol' gee 4.
:/
- fate0
airey, well you bring up a good point which I also wanted to expand this topic to. And that is new ways to interact with computers.
Ya'll seen those studies, Wired did a story them, where they are connecting and fusing wires directly to the brain of a crippled man, allowing him to manipulate a cursor and keyboard purely by thought. That's some crazy stuff. And that's what could possibly aid in a trul effective means of 3d information display.
- fate0
also aire, I think you touched on what the means to navigate would be. That's where it's a little iffy, but I guess it'd go like this.
Geographically, relating your position to nodes of information across the world.
Server/Link relational, showing how information relates to each other across nodes.
Contextual, like unfit's beautiful example, but on a higher level of showing context across information.
- airey0
a problem with neural intefacing is that we don't understand the brain yet. the amount of background noise that goes on is incredible. i mean how many times have you solved a problem while working/thinking on something completely different. as this is subconcious behaviour how can a computer that accepts the input differentiate between direct and indirect info?
a saw a science showw on tv years ago that rigged a guys eyes to the comp and told him to focus on one point of a painting for 10 seconds and not to look anywhere else. his eyes covered the whole painting, wall behind, everything, all subconciously. imagine what a computer would do with all this info when you don't even realise it's going on yourself?!?
- fate0
Well from what I understand the man, and the monkies they're expirementing on now, it's more like moving a body part than creating a single thought. If monkies can do, so can you!