Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Internet as a Sixth Human Sense

I have stumbled upon this article the last couple of days about MIT students who have built a solution involving a camera, a projector and an Internet enabled mobile phone. Through these devices a person can project relevant information on any type of surface, whenever it's needed. The solution it self is not really that interesting, but the vision certainly is. Accessing and utilizing the Internet whenever it's needed. The same vision is coming through one of my previous blog posts, where I described the vision about the Internet through a looking glass. Both of these visions lack one thing. In order for the Internet to operate as a Sixth sense for an individual, there should not be any interactions with physical objects, since a sense is personal. It's a private thing wheter you are utilizing it or not. Pulling up a device from your pocket, or projecting the information you need on a surface, is not really private. The vision is great but it should be taken further. What about a contact lense or or a pair of glasses as the media to provide the information you need, when you need it - just for you alone. This way every individual will be able to utilize a shared intelligence on an individual basis. A sixth sense.

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