Alan, Any news if Open Cobalt supports auctions, banks, or ads yet?
Thanks, John On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > And of course, for some time there has been Croquet > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_project > > ... and its current manifestation > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt > > These are based on Dave Reed's 1978 MIT thesis and were first implemented > about 10 years ago at Viewpoints. > > Besides allowing massively distributed computing without servers, the > approach is interesting in just how widely it comprehends Internet sized > systems. > > Cheers, > > Alan > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Casey Ransberger <casey.obrie...@gmail.com> > *To:* Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:52 PM > *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Building blocks and use of text > > The next big thing probably won't be some version of Minecraft, even if > Minecraft is really awesome. OTOH, you and your kids can prove me wrong > today with Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, which is free, and comes with > _source code_. > > http://mojang.com/2013/02/minecraft-pi-edition-is-available-for-download/ > > </fanboy> > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:55 PM, John Carlson <yottz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Miles wrote: > > There's a pretty good argument to be made that what "works" are powerful > building blocks that can be combined in lots of different ways; > So the next big thing will be some version of minecraft? Or perhaps the > older toontalk? Agentcubes? What is the right 3D metaphor? Does anyone > have a comfortable metaphor? It would seem like if there was an open, > federated MMO system that supported object lifecycles, we would have > something. Do we have an "object web" yet, or are we stuck with text > forever, with all the nasty security vunerabilities involved? Yes I agree > that we lost something when we moved to the web. Perhaps we need to step > away from the document model purely for security reasons. > What's the alternative? Scratch and Alice? Storing/transmitting ASTs? > Does our reliance on https/ssl/tls which is based on streams limit us? When > are we going to stop making streams secure and start making secure network > objects? Object-capability security anyone? > Are we stuck with documents because they are the best thing for debugging? > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > > -- > Casey Ransberger > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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