Going Further
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- SteveCo
The web seems to be a medium that can be taken much further. Have you noticed any new trends for exploiting its potential.
Things like bringing television to the web, making a new type of television that's interactive, or anything that seems to be pushing what's currently being done.
- jevad0
i'd have to say...asphinctersayswhat?
- mitsu0
we limit ourselves when thinking of the internet (web) as a stage for html, server-side script and flash movies and trying to invent from there. there's much more out there than what you see through your favorite browser flavor.
- bent0
I just read in popular science that there is this attachment that plugs in to your head and anytime you have a brilliant design idea, it follows through with it for you. Finally, some results.
- SteveCo0
Any ideas on how we can go beyond the browser, beyond flash, beyond what we currently know of now?
- CL0
total immersion.....
- sp0
why go beyond? we haven't figured out what to do with what is there, yet.
xml, neural networking, web services...fuzzy logic database architectures...
there is much more than web pages and flash...
- protoculture0
Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/we…
- CL0
rewind, first, we have to get the general populace (not people who visit newstoday, etc...) to properly handle the functions of a computer. If the basis for operating a research/design/computational/cr... device is not achieved, then we might as well be using HAM radios.
- Gorbie0
I am a fly in the world wide web.
- SteveCo0
Well maybe going further requires taking a step back. Making things more farmilier and accessible to those unfamilier with what we take for granted.
- mrdobolina0
sp, do you have a site?
- sp0
actually - what would work the best for the end user is simply remove control from them.
make usable and functional, simple and clean UI's that do most of the work themselves.
the problem is, right now, users have to learn how to use everything over and over again.
that is why standards are so important.
once the user can transverse site to site and not have to figure out new procedures for each page, or application or UI...then they will be more efficient.
a way to do this would be to remove all worthless fluff and power from the user - if the user of a windows operating system doesn't need to know how to use regedit - then he/she shouldn't have that option.
multi-tier web applications and operating systems for different leveled users.
- sp0
not right now why? does it matter?
i haven't work on web sites for a long time now.
- Biofreak0
man, all i know is that i can order pizzas online now, so i am in heaven.
how's that for lazy... you dont even have to get up from the puter chair til the dude knocks at your door. ah yes... feel my atrophied muscles. FEEL THEM!!
- CAJTBr0
is this a research project or just something you're mildly interested in?
CL- if you're going to 'go further' than the web, then there's no need for the general populace, you just use an interface that they can understand more easily.
anyway, my suggestion to 'go further' than the web is regular every day life, after all, there is more to life than the web.
if you're interested in clever ideas about how the world might turn out, read some decent sci-fi. i believe william gibson's next is out soon.
- TransFatty0
thicker pipe
- sp0
yea, we have a site like that here...where i can order online and they deliver it....and it's not just pizza, it's everything...i can get steak n shake brought to my door for a small delivery fee...
that's usable.
- CL0
cajtkr, you have to make the interface so small that the User doesn't even know he/she is using it. It's kind of like the Asian man I saw this morning practically shoving the cellphone into his ear cavity....tasty.
- Gorbie0
TransFatty is right.
It's all about girth.
- mitsu0
with the advent of artificial life, including but not limited to nanotechnology, incorporating a world-wide communication medium between machines will exponetially increase our potential within the field of neuroscience.... none of this requiring the lastest version of flash.