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Mozilla engages the collective imagination while China tries to breathe
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Chris Beard, VP of Mozilla Labs said, “We just touched the surface of the potential on the Web. Now we need to turn up the volume and get more people involved.”
Well, doesn’t that just make me swoon. This is what I’m talking about, people! While burned-out programmers and editors and yes, even some of us adapters and adopters are yawning at the exclamation points, I’m jumping up and down because, darn it, the Internet is now ready to carry the best of our passions and pursuits, with tremendous plasticity. And to me, that means we can light up this global brain with problem-solving innovation. All of us. Now. Okay.
It's chocolate, by the way.
China has a full plate
Let’s just look at this global brain metaphor for a moment. Over here in this hemisphere, (picture bespectacled prof pointing at the globe in front of class), we have China. Ellen Lee, in the Chronicle series* on China and the Internet, reports that the Chinese government hamstrings its own goals and its emerging entrepreneurial spirit through its oppressive regulations. (Can’t seem to get past the binding.) Swing that globe across to our spacious skies, and it looks like a virtual relief valve shooting creativity into the stratosphere.
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So when Mozilla Labs asks for visionaries and artists and amateurs (along with developers and designers) to get creative and report in on possibilities for browser appeal and function, listen up. They want to know what we want our physical experience to be with our browsers, how we would change it. It does take a real reach of imagination for the average user to invent a new scenario. But try it. It’s good for your brain. Get into the conversation over at the Adaptive Path blog.
I dreamed up something I’ll share with you and Mozilla here today. Since the trend is to deepen the 3-D experience, and they seem to be looking at how to make the layers of information on the screen more palatable, I think it would be cool and maybe even useful to be able to “roll” the whole set of layered images to one side, sort of like thumbing through a huge book. If I could see the pages on end and see into them a bit, flipping through and stopping here and there, well, I think I’d like that.
While China struggles to host the Olympics without causing the athletes respiratory failure, let’s carry on with the bulk of the collective imagining. It’s one of our better traits as a culture.
Suzanna
*By the way, I often get a grokky gestalt for the next article out of the newspaper. I love newspapers. Let’s figure out how to keep them.
Topics: internet , online communication , innovation , virtual world , conversation , Mozilla , adaptation
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