New app software: Net based applications.
Open architecture. Can be contributed by anyone.
Students, professionals, young and old.
Three dimensional, real time view of file
system, with important things large/near and things I don't
care about small/far.
I want the desktop designed by they guy who
did the login session for Johnny Mnemonic. I want industrial
light and magic under the hood. I want the visible
V-8 engine. Iwant to see every valve and every piston, Iwant
to be able to turn it off. If I touch something that
is moving and say more, i want more detail. if i touch
something and say less, i want the detail to fade. I
want that for my local machine, i want that for my server,
i want that for my world view. I want to see the circulation
of information in my system as a real time corporeal animation. When
I send info to the printer, i want to see the bits go there. I
want a mechanistic, electric experience. As I use my
computer I want it to get used to my priorities, without
putting things I need once in a while too far out of the
way. i want a bird's eye view of the information superhighway. i
want real time trace route running in the background. i
want to know who i talked to today. i want to know
where they were and what the weather was like. i want
every event logged and i want to flag important ones. i
want my computer to be my telephone. i want all my
communication to be encrypted at 128 bits RSA with no back
door. i want my computer to be my television. i
want to sit on my bed at night and read any book in the library
of congress on my computer at high resolution. i want
to rent a movie from the video store and see it on my computer,
only i don't want to go to the video store. i want
to check on my kid's classroom with my computer. i
want my computer to be a pair of glasses that i wear with
little walkman earphones and a little tiny microphone going
to my lips. and i want to be able to play football
while wearing it. when i take it off my friends will
point at me and whisper, "he's offline", as in, "out of it". i
want the entire thomas register on my computer and i want
to be able to get at any manufacturer of any part in real
time and get a price and time to delivery in less than 5
seconds.
i want finder, nettop and desktop done
in a rich softImage expression.
i want to extend the desktop analogy to be the worldTop analogy. i
want to access food, commodity, information, museum and entertainment
from my computer. i want to buy and sell, to rock and roll.
i can walk down the street, hands free and
see my worldTop through the stereoscopic images in my sunglasses. i
can also see the sidewalk and not get hit by a car, but if
i do get hit by a car, i want my computer to call 911 and
report my GPS location and send my heart rate and respiration. i
want all the data i have generated to be stored on a DVD
library and put in the WorldView archive for inspection by
current and future generations.
i want to be able to import in any document
i ever created in the last 25 years, paper, Unix, Mac, Windows,
C/C++/Java programs, images, html, etc.
computers are about communication. i
want to see people in little picture frames. i
want to see everyone i supervise in a little window and i
want them to be able to see me. i also want to see
what is on their screen at any given time. if i click
on their screen i want it to get big. if i click on
their picture i want it to get big. when the picture
is big, i want it in hi definition TV format. if they want
to replace their image with an avatar, that's ok. i want
them to have an avatar builder that is nice.
i want to survey the whole wide world of computer
users and ask them what the top ten applications that they
use are, and then ask each of the ten former mac clone makers
to take responsibility to develop, maintain and sell one
of the ten key applications.
the controlling idea is, take me on a drive
through cyberspace. i want my computer and screens
to be indistinguishable from my car and steering wheel. i
want to spend my days working in cyberspace, but producing
change in the real world that was first planned, financed,
approved and executed in virtual reality.
i can set the briefcase down on my desk,
open up the panoramic 21" high definition color corrected
screen and swing out the high fidelity Bose speakers and
work on editing my latest high definition television presentation
for uplink to my employer. personal publishing meets personal
production.
i want every idea that i can think of to become a three d working movie
within 10 minutes like the red blob dodge commercial. have it out
in time for next Christmas.
The real time, three dimensional, Johnny Mnemonic
computing experience by 1999.
Although
preliminary versions of such devices have begun to appear, no one has yet
exploited binocular stereopsis for an enhanced three dimensional viewing
experience in a consumer product. Further the six o'clock reading
position that optimizes near viewing without loss of peripheral vision
has not yet been fully exploited.