I thoroughly enjoy looking forward, and I get excited at what the future brings. For those who've seen my "cyberpunk"blog on MySpace, even the music gets me going. I get riled, I get hopeful, I get my steel-toed boots out and pray for an Apocalypse of sorts. Preferably non-nuclear.
Almost every sci-fi movie I've ever seen has included some version of overlaying information onto reality. Whether it's snazzy binocs in Mission:Impossible, or the Terminator's data-sensing ocular device, or James Bond's lapel camera wired to a van-ful of servers - gadgets that display realtime info onto an actual view have always been the stuff of fiction and semi-serious research study.
Until now. Check this out: Nokia hyperlinks reality.
As the concept of "cyberspace" becomes more and more obsolete, as virtual reality and REAL reality collide more frequently, as the hoi polloi remain connected 24/7 to geographically distant regions via cellphones & PDAs... as computers get smaller and smaller... as the Internet becomes such an integral part of life that we cannot live without it... Reality shifts. Paradigms are rewritten. It's no longer about just communication, but connection. A mass intelligence is surging forward. A world without wires or boundaries or limitations.
And on a completely frivolous note, here's some back-of-an-envelope calculations by Russell Seitz, posted on endofcyberspace.com, in case you wanted to know how much the Internet weighs:
"A statistically rough (one sigma) estimate might be 75-100 million servers @ ~350-550 Watts each. Call it forty-billion Watts or ~ 40 GW. Since silicon logic runs at three Volts or so, and an Ampere is some ten to the eighteenth electrons a second, a straight forward calculation reveals that if theaverage chip runs at a Gigahertz, some 50 grams of electrons in motion make up the Internet. As of today, cyberspace weighs less than two ounces."
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