Re: Re: UKNM: The next stage in the game - ?????

[Clay Shirky]

> The point wasn't that these technologies would eclipse what is

> available now, but augment it, to bring it into the hands of people

> who wouldn't buy a computer in the first place, however easy they

> are to use. This, I believe, is a fairly large group of people (no

> figures, unfortunately).


I'm sure you're right about it bringing interactivity to a new group

of people - the devices we have are far too difficult to use. I don't

think new devices equal new protocols, though. New devices will have

to interoperate with the existing net or they will fail. If Open

doesn't get a real web browser, it won't be around in 6 months time.


> If people access a banking website from the TV without a mouse,

> using arrow keys and 'forward/back' buttons, that site has to be

> developed for that.


I doubt this - as we've seen from Web TV, its far liklier that some

interface will be added to the TV remote to make moving around the

page and clicking possible. It will be easier to make new hardware for

the net we've got then adapt the net we've got to new hardware, and

thats whats going to happen. Designers will have to take these new

devices into account, but the change is not going to be so swift nor

so large that anybody is going to be forced to play 'catch up' in a

years time, much less a month's.


-clay 

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