One of the objects shown on screen is a Web browser displaying Wikipedia’s home page. While watching this, it hit me that websites, as we know them today, will almost certainly disappear within the next, say, 5 to 10 years, being replaced with XML-based, user-defined, and user-driven presentations of two-, three-, and maybe even four-dimensional content. I can’t wait.
:: Perceptive Pixel ::
Perceptive Pixel, Inc. was founded by Jeff Han in 2006 as a spinoff of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences to develop and market the most advanced multi-touch system in the world.
Imagine if the Internet could be constantly transparently upgraded and patched like many of today’s websites and OS updates. That would be a new Internet.
How do you build a new internet? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
Researchers in the US want at least $350m (£175m) to build the Global Environment for Network Innovations (Geni), touted by some as the possible replacement for today’s internet. In Europe, similar projects are under way as part of the EU’s Future and Internet Research (Fire) programme, which is expected to cost at least £27m. With online crime rising and traffic increasing rapidly, some academics believe it is time to have a serious discussion about what succeeds today’s internet.
intrinsi on August 1st 2007 in Ubiquitous Computing
