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That image reminds me of Tron, which sort of fits into the genre as well.

@Tanja: Yeah, I actually liked the Minority Report UI. It was cool, but at no point it gave it’s users some magical hacking abilities.

I haven’t seen it in a while, but from what I remember ‘Minority Report’ had a pretty nice UI. Tom Cruise would literally grab files and put them next to eachother, toss some out, flip through others, all with his hands and not with a mouse.
I liked that, but don’t know if we’ll ever get that.

Mobile Plugin…

Twitterverse just gave me devunity and I still think all and all this is the future… Us creating our sites and a merge… Instead of going to different websites they will eventally be one page and it all comes to that… Like plaxio meets wiki… Everything all at your fingers. However that will eventually become boringand you still have to physically go to your computer… In the future the network will be around us at all times and we will superimpose virtua on top of reality… And it’s not that far off or crazy. We will be the ones all constantly flowing information to eachother… We all want to say bills diner was great but pricy for the next guy… We just don’t all knowthe same sites or check them which is why we will also have more standards.. I wish we already did ->I would love to always have my google cal talking with my other calendars

@BobCFC and @feeshy: I believe that this happens when you use a firefox package which came from some of the backports repositories or the generic linux binary from Mozilla.

To “fix” this try to add few keys to your about:config. This is what I have there right now:

general.useragent.vendor: Ubuntu
general.useragent.vendorComment: gutsy
general.useragent.vendorSub: 7.10

If you are running hardy simply adjust for your release.

@BobCFC

I get that too and I’m using Ubuntu32

The picture you included reminded me of the hacking minigame in the original System Shock. Now thats a Cyberspace representation I can live with :)

RE: text search

The google juice is a fair comment. Hopefully in the next ten years google will be able to search the content of video too, especially the voice part.

Just recently the new version Picassa web albums has facial recognition for automatic tagging. Next step search.

ps why does my post say Linux instead of Ubuntu? is it because I am x86_64?

I think that there will be a spatial element to the future web, however this won’t be a physical representation.

I’m absolutely with you with the HUD idea, and think that the future of computing is going to move back to rich-CLI such as ubiquity, quicksilver et al

The UI is going to fade away, rather than become more pronounced such as with VR.

People are not interested in the interface, your purpose isn’t interface – your purpose is the information displayed. Future interfaces will get in your way less and ultimately – as in your HUD – all you will have left is information.

I think that the spatial element will come in the form of a Zooming User Interface – but zooming through a space constructed purely for you, not zooming through the structure of web8.0. You are right – information will come to you, we already pull information to us, and this is only going to get better.

CLI is a far more intuitive and linear interaction, the real missing piece of the puzzle is that of focus – how to tell the computer what bit of information to act upon. With a HUD system, this would presumably become trivial and this will really allow linear computer interfaces to flourish.