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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5701961" data-attributes="member: 54707">As for me, this is what I'd do. Though it too may end up  being more than 3 things.   And of course I know the technology is still in the  infant-stage, very primitive, and as yet wholly undeveloped compared to the  possibilities. And you'll also need input and output devices, and computers, and  networks that will support such developments, but given those caveats a'priori,  this is what I'd do:     1. Visiting an internet site would be like  visiting an "Enhanced Real World" site. It would not be like visiting a  current site. It would be like going to a real place (far better and far more  realistic than current virtual world sites), only there would be add on levels  of para-naturalism. Where things that cannot happen in real life, or that would  be extremely difficult to do in real life, would be possible. I'd eliminate all  but the most absolutely necessary text and text interactions. Visiting sites on  the internet would be experientially and sensually interactive, as in real life.  Information would be exchanged in a sensory and experiential fashion, as in real  life, with data packet back-ups or carry outs as an additional add  on.   For instance if one visited a site about Russian Vikings  then it would be like going to a Russian Viking village. You'd talk to other  visitors and you'd talk to Viking era guides and inhabitants of the village. If  you wanted specific information you could talk to a village elder and buy a  virtual book which you'd take with you back to your "home" (on your computer)  and could be installed and that book would contain "the exchanges" which would  include data, text, histories, backgrounds, demonstrations, sounds, examples,  etc. that could be used on your computer. It'd be like installing a  micro-version of the Russian Viking internet site you just visited on your  site.   This would also be true of visiting a web based store.  Instead of going to a site and seeing a picture of and/or write up of a product,  you'd be able to examine and pick up a virtual version of the product, scan it  with a virtual device, and the scan would contain all relevant information on  the product, such as compatibility, functions, etc. You'd even be able to scan a  virtual simulation of the product that you could then transfer instantaneously  to your "Home Space" to see how it would look and behave in the area of your own  home where the real product would be installed.    2. Black Webs and Secerned Nets - I  would greatly enhance and enlarge Black Web sites. I would also begin to break  the web apart into sub-Realms or sub-areas that people could visit that would  have a particular culture or specialized on a particular subject matter. The web  is simply too big, and has been for awhile, to be properly managed as a  single domain (open to all at all times) enterprise. The way the internet  operates now guarantees crashes and overtaxed technological and system  networks.   These divisions could be like nations (divided by  a culture), like cities (divided by smaller areas with a wide range of smaller  activities within them), or they could be divided like subject matter categories  (a library). Though there is no reason that you couldn't have different types of  divisions all operating simultaneously.    (Actually these divisions already exist - LANs, RANS, etc. - for security purposes, for instance there are military and governmental  and corporate sub-webs that cannot be accessed without the proper security  protocols or without hacking or cracking attempts. But I'm talking more about  divisions for enhanced and easier use, not division for restricted physical or  security access.)   3. Alpha Areas - although I am in no  way wedded to this idea it is my attempt to solve some of the funding  difficulties inherent in the Web and in developing the Internet properly. I  would allow and encourage the development of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Areas  and sites on the Web.    Alpha areas and sites would be entirely for profit and  funded by Free Market business and commercial activity. They would probably also  be paid areas and sites that you'd either pay a fee to visit or become a member  through a pay structure.   Beta would be partial pay.   Gamma would be for various governmental  interests.   Delta would be free, public access areas and  sites.   To use the City analogy above. Say you had a Secerned  Net that was structured like a city. In any city are areas and buildings and  sites you can only visit by paying for access, areas that only certain  cooperative members can visit (such as workers at a business), and areas that  are free to all, such as parks and public areas.     Well, that's all I have time for now. Thanks for your  responses.     Janx, I liked your cyberspace idea but couldn't give you  XP for it. Wouldn't let me.</blockquote>

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