With the Grid coming, I am reminded of a series of applications notes I wrote in 1996 and 97 under the name PREMISET Video Conferencing. The idea was that every Premises, would become a Set for the production of real life video conferencing to purpose sales, and services of companies everywhere.
The Concept of a Premises as a Set makes the concept of distance obsolete. In Education we have a crisis, Premiset will change the negative to a positive. Great teachers will band together as Rock Stars, making better learning available to anyone with a connection, content is not only king, its also the edge to make up ground against instransigence, endemic too systems of largess.
In support of any product, real time simulation will be done, allowing a do it yourselfer or a technician, to access on demand scripts, which guide you through the steps of repair and replace. By simply following along with a holographic script, written to purpose an outcome skills are multiplied. In some other cases, low cost home materials modelers, will take cad files and produce on demand parts, locally.
Where goods cant be fabricated locally, transportation costs should plunge as raw materials and components ship via
UAV's to distribution centers across vast distances, at greatly reduced prices.
Space will be opened, while distances are closed. Informations, sensory organs will obsolete everything we've been used too. The drive to control behaviors, tastes and choice, will be turned inside out, as special interest groups, pursue lives as hives and swarms of co-mingled expertise, breaking the hegemony of entrenched mediums and the largess of institutional inertia..
Will we be around for any of it?
I think so, with all the mind power joining the human race, solutions to bottlenecks will be attacked by greater insights, than the old vestiges of disparate science can offer.
When everyone becomes more, than the scope of their training, obsolescence becomes a do or die choice, where credentials wont be enough and rhetoric will be surrounded by bandwidth whose consequences it didnt expect. |
