Friday, June 03, 2005

Hypertext living II

A while after my previous comment I came across this story on physical world hyperlinks. There are some interesting ideas in the story and even more interesting ideas in the comments that follow. I guess the main story itself is probably just a subset of the broader vision of ambient intelligence. Incidentally I should mention that although interested, I remained unconvinced by most of the ideas in those pages.

What is remarkable in all those scenarios (from the point of view of this note) is the possibility that the mobile device will increasingly open up pathways for each of us to divert from our physical itinerary to explore other social or cognitive domains, without relocating physically; without even changing our physical itinerary.