I read this article in the age on the weekend ‘Beginning to see the light‘, by Nick Miller which gives some insights into the next phase of the Internet. A phase which is all about increased speed “ultra-broadband”.
“With this light pipe and high-resolution video you have one wall of your living room dissolve and there are your grandparents; another wall dissolves and it’s the aunts and uncles, and you’re in one big room. These are the kind of things that will throw our intuitive sense of the physical world out the window.”
Sean sent across the new book by David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the Digital Disorder. The summary from Amazon Books:
In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children’s teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by “going miscellaneous,” anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life.