On 04/07/2008, at 3:54 PM, SteveC wrote: > Or without actually doing anything better.
That is true. > I know this is geowanking but it's just so incredibly cheap to take > pot shots at things like mashups in 2008 when people were doing that I want to move to the next stage beyond map mash-ups, and part of that process is recognising the problems that map mash-ups do not solve. Layers do not solve large numbers of problems either. Red dots do not solve large numbers of problems either. An existing problem was highlighted by Feynman, who observed that the education process presents the material without the connections. The ability to directly perceive (with false colour overlays, etc) data in context is a possible solution. What are some more existing problems? Can those problems be solved with the same approach? What approach could be implemented with what we have now, that does solve real problems? There's no point in creating a solution that is in search of a problem. So I want to talk about approaches that could solve large numbers of problems that are not currently being solved with the existing approaches. That is very pragmatic, and does not have any relevance to academics who blow hot air for tenure. > 3 years ago, let alone call audacious commercial projects like second > life lacking in 'scope and ambition'. What do they have to do - build > a warp drive? Yes. Or they could be content with praise from the Twitter crowd. OMG, Twitter FTW! LOL!1! We have computers that are enormously powerful compared to the 1960's, we have networks that are enormously fast compared to the 1960's, and we're still doing the same stuff that people thought of in the 1960's. Let's not get so excited over a slightly larger Quake game that we stop looking ahead to what we could be doing instead. Let's not get so wrapped up in web browsers that we think something that could have run on a Commodore 64 is "state of the art". -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
