hello all

[elija]

You may be interested in Nooface: In Search of the Post-PC Interface if you are interested in interfaces. I have no idea how good it is having only had a glance through.

[Rubberman]

My idea of a new computer paradigm is a system where you tell it what you want it to do, and it figures out how to do it. There will never be enough programmers to develop all the systems and applications that are needed now, let alone in the future. I spent the better part of the past 15-20 years developing "adaptive" systems that started supporting such stuff. It's very hard, and difficult as well to get people to buy into a new paradigm of computing. In any case, by using an adaptive rule-based system, you could tell it how data was related, and it would get the specified information without programming. In semiconductor factory optimization problems, we were able to reduce what was some hundreds of lines of complex C++ and SQL coding into a single function call that invoked a set of 6 rules in order to get the best equipment for processing a lot of wafers at its next step, and it was something that could be tailored for a specific fab with a simple rule editor.

[Zudo]

might i suggest looking into wolfram|alpha, by the way thank you Elija for that info on Nooface...but i don't think multiverse is something i could see going too big in the distant future...i want to invest my time in something that seems more promising...my ideal paradigm is where you walk over to your applications and organize them ala 3dna with networking support...i was thinking maybe walking outside your "house" (personal system) and into your "yard" (your intranet) and maybe to others in a LAN party, where you connect directly to someones intranet via some sort of mailbox or something to play some call of duty 4 or some starcraft (gotta love the classics) on your "home" "gaming system" all done virtually of course...and then, after playing a few games of SC with your friends, you decide you want to learn a little about tree frogs so you hail a cab (aka search engine) and type in "where you want to go" which in reality is just what you were searching for...something like say, tree frogs...so the taxi takes you to the rain forest in which you would find that species of tree frog (or a generic rain forest for an unspecified tree frog) and after your done flicking through the many posts and chunks of information by many different users you simply step away and decide "hey, im in the rain forest, i might as well look up the local plant life" and the information is clustered that way, by environment...and after all that you decide hey, i want to go to myspace...so you enter browser mode and walk through this hall of users, previewing all the useless **** all the teenager hookers advertise about their milkshakes or whatever they are saying nowadays...and finally decide you want to visit your girlfriends page, so you click on the rerolling photos/videos of her profile and enter the original browser mode of the browser you have installed (this makes the compatibility a little more manageable) the OS will be known as ripleys veins: enterprise, educational, or professional edition...in educational edition, you are encouraged to acquire as much information as possible by being given a topic that rotates daily, and when you are finished collecting information you are tested on your knowledge based on the amount of data you collected and for each question you answer correctly you get points which can be used to buy virtual weapons and ammo you can use to attack people randomly cruising the internet for pokemon and **** (of course if they have attack mode on)...with enterprise you make points depending on your success, the more hits you get on your website the more points you make (links are worth more) which can be spent the same way, of course with a different set of weapons...professional edition gains points based on data flowing from that users network/computer...this way it covers the basis of the common consumers...the workers, the entrepreneur, and the student...essentially turning the internet itself into an MMO