http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2005/images/bluegene.jpg


I don't think I would want to, but I have a friend who has about 10 computers in a room in his house. I have another friend who owns a computershop. In one of his rooms, there is a server about this big.


Here's an idea. Let's build a computer. About 1/8 the size of this thing. Perhaps 1/4 as powerful. Create and OS and applications for it. Especially 3D animation design and rendering as well as Audio/visual production and game design. Then sell it to the consumer market for $1,000.

Then we can create a 3D internet. Using a browser in 3D that allows you to surf the web, enter websites like entering a house or a shop, and use a character to walk around in them.

The browser also has full filesharing/transfer capabilities limited only by the power of your internet connection.

We can charge subscribers for our 3Dinternet service where we offer them free software. The OS and software is completely open ended, and allows users to code and recode the software. The only license is that users may not use our codes to create software for sale. This allows complete open ended creativity with lots of stability, customization, and no boundries.
Yes!

or we could just put a whorehouse/peepshow on every corner and make the real world a replica of the internet. :m:

I don't see how the real world can replicate the internet.
In a 3d internet, you can fly around and teleport, etc.

you seem a bit strange lately coolskill, are you feeling ok?

I don't see how the real world can replicate the internet.
In a 3d internet, you can fly around and teleport, etc.

Though I am not a fan of its implementation, check out Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com/). It is very similar to what you are talking about.

Some questions you have to ask though. Such as, would such an interface as you describe improve productivity? Would I be able to get more done? Would I have faster access to information? These are the sorts of questions you have to ask with any system like this.

-AntonK

Though I am not a fan of its implementation, check out Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com/). It is very similar to what you are talking about.

Some questions you have to ask though. Such as, would such an interface as you describe improve productivity? Would I be able to get more done? Would I have faster access to information? These are the sorts of questions you have to ask with any system like this.

-AntonK
I would probably compare web browsers to newspapers when it comes to 3D internet. Active worlds has created a browser for their 3d internet similar to SL, but I would not waste time with it. It is horrible.

With more advanced technologies, a 3D browser can allow everybody to create websites in 3d. Not just for reading info, but for interacting. Having meetings, playing games, socializing, etc.


I used to log into SL twice per week to attend ethics group. Before that, I made a ton of money off of an ingame business I set up.
Now all I use it for are the groups. I might eventually start up another business in there. It's quite lucrative if you are business minded.




you seem a bit strange lately coolskill, are you feeling ok?
You mean other than a computer that takes forever to render 3d animations?

Coolskill, Activeworlds formulated their first world in (Alphaworld) 1994-5. As technology has moved on, I have to admit they can't fit too many more bandaids and patchs to keep their once "state-of-the-art" system up to date. It would actually mean a complete re-write.

The main problem with all these 3D worlds is a mixture of the bandwidth/processing power needed to run smoothly considering the number of "Objects" that the system attempts to download and render. (Even operating systems have file limits to curtail to)

I do have an idea to make a better system for a 3D Internet but it would require certain companies having a word with me that are all the too often not interested.