Sunday, July 18, 2004

next platform

Devinder lit up my face with a copy of ''Cocina india vegetariana'. O boy, design for print has it's own charm.
I long for a platform where all media converge- print, web, sound, film, 3d; some kind of an interactive holograph in which the user can step into, the kind Michael Douglas does in 'Disclosure'. The person can turn the entire system on and steps into the content, with data floating around, wears VR gloves like Tom Cruise does in 'Minority Report' to sift through content-
1. turn virtual pages
2. watch animation wizzing around
3. listen to 3d sound / music
4. play VR games
And ofcourse, just download a database into your head like Trinity does with the chopper manual in the 'Matrix'.
When does this become real and when do I design content on this platform?
This is why I take Hollywood movies seriously. Visionaries deploy their imagination in movies where they are accepted as fictional. Much deeper and intense thoughts go behind these contraptions that we dispose so quickly as we step out of the theatre. These ideas become real much faster than we laugh them off as science fictional fantasies by wackos living in wonderland light years away. Arthur C Clarke talked about satellite technology way before it really happened. The flip phone in Star Trek which was shown 20 years back is already real and taken for granted. So start imagining. Your wild imagination today is tomorrow's trillion dollar operation.

And while you're at it, please blue-tooth my car parked below so the songs in my pc get transfered into it for tomorrow morning's drive to work. At least run some tracking technology on it so only I know of it's whereabouts if it is stolen. It's already there in our phones telling us where WE are, for god's sake.
Thanks, darling.


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