Wednesday, May 31, 2006

The future history of google

I was talking to a fellow "futurist" and was telling him that the future of information really is Google, and the applications people develop for it really. I was telling him that someone is going to write a program that indexes historical information to google's map program. So when you research Thomas Jefferson, google will have a site that tracks thomas jefferson's travels through Europe, across America and so forth. This wouldn't just be any map, it'll be a historical map that accurately reflected the size and shape of cities back then. This'll be even cooler because some geek would create a program that made 3D models of the buildings, so you could do a virtual walk-through.

Then there's the question of historical debates, for instance, what ethnicity were the Harappans (Indus valley) or even the Ancient Egyptians (Kemet) for that matter. I guess fury would arise if anyone modeled Muhummad as Islam allows no images of their Prophet. And what would happen if someone created a Jesus with lambs wool hair and black feet!

I think for this we would need to create choice-points and explanatory tangents to educate the explorers of the past. This would be in the form of some floating symbol that is clickable or something like that.
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Thursday, May 25, 2006

New book i want to write

I want to write another book (again). It'll be called "Distinctions of a Black Man". It's a pun. It isn't anything like the movied 'distinguished gentleman' with eddie murphy. It isn't even a book about black men. Rather it is about how black men think. It lists a couple polarities/categories along which black men (in my opinion) parse and judge the world. let me clue you in to a few topics:

Adult vs Children (responsibility)
Black people vs Niggaz (morality & ambition)
Power vs Force (sovereignty)
Man/Woman vs Masculine/Feminine
Success vs Failure (winning with the hand you were dealt)
War vs Violence (read the book! or the next paragraph)

There may be up to 50, i just gotta think them up. The thought for this book came about when i was thinking about how i literally love warriorship literature, but hate the violence in my community. So i got to thinking about the difference between a warrior and a thug. What differentiates them are the ultimate aims for which they apply force.
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Ipod, Mac and Dell

I got another ipod, the 30gig video. It's amazing. Problem . . . i'm mostly using my Girl's laptop for music. We have separate user names, so we have duplicate music, that sucks. . . especially on the 40gig harddrive, (really two drives, the one of which is getting full!). If you have an Ipod, you know the trials and tribulations of figuring out what to do with it, how to organize this and so forth. I think the greatest feature of the ipod is the smart playlists.

I think the ipod is the single greatest invention that has the potential to cause world happines. I mean, think about it. A personal soundtrack to your life! It helps you carry around all of your favorite songs, even videos and personal information. Pretty soon it'll be a pda/phone too. Imagine a 60gig phone running macware!

And that puts me to another point. I was arguing with my dad about Mac and Windows. We differ on a big point. He thinks that Mac's competitor is Windows. I say that Mac's competitors are Dell, HP and the machines. People love the mac software, but aren't sure about the computer. With all the differentiation between the ram, harddrives, processors and such, Mac remains a mystery to most people. When we can run Mac software on a PC, That's what has Paul Allen and Bill Gates worried. . . to hell with linux. Linux has a reputation for geekdom and servers and data-intensive stuff, not graphical aesthetics for the hobby-ing user (i.e. non-programmer).
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