New Materials\Post for a Friday

So I've here's some shit that's been sitting my brain pain fermenting.

Let's suppose a few things:

Everybody and everything in the world that matters has a FaceSpace or YouGoo page.
Everybody and everything in the world that matters it's own personal IP\webspace.

As heavily discussed here and in The Before Time blog, everybody and everything has a computer on itself at all times and that computer is on the 1nt4arw3bz at all times.

Further we might suggest that all such PODs (Personal Omni Devices for those just joining us (my imaginary friend and his buddy)) are wired for sound and video, because....they would be.

Ok. So that's this weeks assumption set.

Now, back to the FaceSpace YouGoo.

A bar is owned by company X and they want to remodel it. Patrons and fans of bar X protest, they do this as they do right now, by creating a FaceSpace YouGoo page\group for it.

As is currently true each POD has it's own unique number (the IP mentioned above, the MAC address, the person\entity with which it's associated, etc, multiple confirmations of unique identity) and thus we can do some interesting maths.

If bar X earns X revenue over X period via X customers then you can determine exactly, or nearly so, certainly to a greater degree than currently possible, how much you bring in, how much the refurb will cost, and how much the protest site traffic will cost you. Thus allowing you to determine if it's worth your time (money) at all to remodel.

Further, as word spreads via the YouGoo FaceSpace your traffic goes up for various reasons, and it becomes detrimental to even really consider it.

This is direct democracy via FaceSpace YouGoo. And it mostly exists now. That Wal-Mart iPhone is going to be a phucking game changer mang. No lie. I dunno why Apple (aka Stevie J) is so smart and everybody else is so dumb, but...he is, and they are, and it's goin' down in your town...tonite!

That App store is exactly the thing. First indicator. Cloud computing suggests the next part (meaning piece) of it.

Here's an app I'd like to see, one that monitors your emails and FaceSpace YouGoo accounts and all the pictures and links and such there-in, and figures out if you've already gotten a link or not, and then tabulates them so you can refresh your memory or pick up where you left off.

This also allows you to track and tabulate various trends. The more your friends send you a link the more you count hits for that link, maybe it becomes worth clicking at some point. You can monitor how fast you hit certain links, or how fast compared to your various networks (the social kind) you are on the edge, track your own viral rating.

With a large enough datapile (oh sweet datapile) you can even begin to engage in your own forms of spam filtering, auto-responding and the like. Tired of "blah blah blah 3 year old blah blah blah daddy in Iraq blah blah blah Amerikkka right or wrong blah blah blah heart warming blah blah blah" mass forwards? Now your filter catches them, kills them, and mass forwards the snopes debunk link back down the chain of link backs.

So. There's a post for a Friday for you. Direct Democracy via FaceSpace YouGoo.

The greater your levels of inter-operation become the more data can be pulled from such a...uh, what would we call it? Inter...net? Maybe that.

How much does protester X actually spend at Amazon? So then how much does their protest really matter? But what about back scatter? What about the friends they influence? Can we use their viral rating to determine presumed\predicted social influence? If so can we further use that free demographic FaceSpace YouGoo data to see how many folks they influence and how much those folks spend on Amazon (or Bar X, or M$, or The Apple App Store, or...) and then actually have some idea of how much "bad press" is actually going to impact your bottom line?

Does this become a viable feedback path for consumers to influence large corporations?

Even for a week or month to demonstrate power. Nike uses Indonesian sweatshops and "everybody" stops buying Nike for a month. That's going to be a bad month...or is it? Maybe those ppl that buy Nike feel the 3rd world, race to the bottom, globalized economy is a good thing and they just spend MORE money to generate MORE work for the poor benighted Indonesians.

Point being this is just another aspect of the datapile model of application. Point being this technology is here, right now, today.

I'd stop there, but this isn't even 1000 words. That's BULLshit. I'm outta blogging shape is all.

What are some other things? Have I done the public transport parts yet?

Equip your buses and taxis with PODs as well (drivers are obsolete, but if we leave them in then...it's their PODs we're using for the public good) and the PODs have GPS (again, this is all real right now) and so now we know where the taxis and buses are all the time (hello App Store money money) and we can ping them with pick up info, times, estimated time of arrival. No more missing the bus by 2 minutes. No more inconvienent stops.

And then we take it a step further. Here's an App Store app for you: Micropayments! I think I did this one already, well, too bad jerks! So now because you can charge shit already with your phone (uh...see the App Store, for instance, ringtones, etc (again, all really real right now)) but between friends. Or between random jack-offs. Like the guy giving you a ride to work. You use your "Thumb App" app and put in your destination (because it's already GOT your location) and somebody close by pings you back with his rates (or maybe that's automated too) and because the odds suggest that if you are going somewhere then somebody else is going there you ride along with them, they get a bit of $$$ from your POD, and buses and taxis die. Or people become buses and taxis as required.

Again, all possible, right now.

How about poetry slams? Street performers?

Same same. Publish your POD data via App Store and play in the street and folx throw you bling via the 1nt4rw3bz as they walk by, as you do open mike poetry, as they read your blog, watch your YouGoo vidz, etc.

Oooh! We're over 1K words now, but I'll keep it goin' 'cause I like you so much.

How about bar-bidding? Bars provide "free" wi-fi, which PODs connect to, you then publish your bar page on 1nt4rw3bz with drink prices (prices you're paying, obviously, from your POD) (goodbye servers and wait staff? maybe....) and then you use App Store app "Bar Hopper" which contains a "hopper" (Oh I lulz myself) of local bars, with locational data. And drink prices\specials, and then the bars monitor their inventory and other bar prices and selectively raise and lower and start and stop specials all night long, to provoke churn\traffic. You can also provide all kinds of other info. Use App Store app "Where all the white women at?" (aka "Where da bitchez at?" aka "You mind if we dance wif yo dates?") to determine where the chicks are, go to that bar, or where people are NOT, so you can leave the loud bar and go to the quiet bar. Or a bar that's too loud raises their drink prices and everybody leaves, and now the quiet bar people come to your newly emptied bar (because really you just wanted to get rid of your stock of house tequila, so you put it on special, ppl showed up, tequila was drank, and they left).

So there's another mass app.

Mass Transit. Bars. What else?

What's missing?

Currently you can use PODs to connect to the 1nt4rw3bz and you can use that to find all standard internet data, but that data is largely non-local, even when App Store does stuff to localize it to you (that lunch app, directions, etc) it's a one-way thing. You know your location, and it knows theirs, but they don't know yours.

So PODs need to act as local area servers, which should be a pretty trivial programming task in fact. Particularly since you're going to be using local wi-fi hotspots for net access anyway. It already HAS a client list from it's DHCP table. Just reverse publish that down the pipe and go for P2P connects and publishing.

Finally a word about the ON (again Omni Net for those who are new here (all 0 of you)) it's here now. I thought it would take time, but it's actually already ready already. Cell nets ARE the ON. That white-space deal Google fucked out of the FCC? Same\same. Wi-Max? Same\same.

And what does Intel (and Marvell (and others)) have in it's labs? Software radios. The only thing you need for serious ON action.

So, the POD is here now, the ON is here now. Thus my future vision comes to fruition.

The datapile is already pre-extant. It's here it's just not connected to itself yet. Matter of time. All that data is money (interesting posit btw for those who like business\money) so ppl guard it jealously, but of course if you don't share money you can't make money and so the data will merge, the datapile will E-merge (little putar joke there) and there it is.

Final bits missing:

FN (fun? phone? I'd probably go with phone for retro-throwback potential)
high-density WORMS (the S is for Storage (or maybe Solid State (WORMSSS?)))
transparent data access\data access tracking&logging

I read something recently about the P2P networks being retuned to search local nodes preferentially for data, so that's real now too.

Cars that drive themselves

and of course the SHEL.

And the Integrated Reality devices.

One final word since I ain't think I gotz it here yet.

Intel said recently they've got their 32nm process scaling up for production. Atom SOC at 32nm should be out next year therefore. This is the (I think, for now) ultimate POD chip, combined with software radio for ON, and (ideally, fuck Apple) Android v2 phones for the POD platform and there we go.

Software changes the world instantly. That's the secret of software.

I'm almost at 2K for today. So I'm going to keep going.

But what?

Implications about truth via datapile? That's been done (by me) already. But for instance, using the above, The Seattle Mariners are trying to oppose a strip club being built near their stadium. Theory I heard was season ticket holders (richies!) would be up-nosed about this, and never ever come to their local ball clubs games again if they had something as evil as a strip bar next door (nevermind that this is stupid, just roll with it) so...how to test it? Datapile.

How to test anything?

One of the assumptions of economics I have trouble with is the idea of homo economus, the rational actor. Often this takes the form of various theories from behavioral econ to account for non-rational "rational" behaviors. But also we have situations of information dis-parity. If you don't know what's on sale how can you but it preferentially? So using localized ON data now you can know. And those in charge of price fixing, uh, setting, can know also. A "flat" marketplace.

Point here is that you can then use the datapile to test for rationality, to test for vendor trust, and so on and so forth.

Suppose you go see a movie opening weekend. You leave the movie, your POD says, "Hey jerk, wanna fill out a quick survey on this biatch for a 1$ refund on your ticket price?". Here are some interesting ideas for that:

The production company gets this data OR the theatre gets this data and sells it to the production company OR a internet site comps you more on your ticket price than either and you give them your info first, and they scoop the bigger sites OR you are walking by the theatre and your POD tells you movie times AND what the last audience thought of it AND if there is enough info in the d-pile you can even get demo-data right out of that stream (all folx within 2 deltas of your demo-data enjoyed it, oldies didn't, kids didn't (so you don't take your kids)).

On-demand similar vendor instant coupons. "I notice you got Sugar Frosted Choco-bombs...would you like to save .50$ on them and on Item X (organic DHA supplemented milk)?"

The ability to directly drive consumer culture like this is then contrasted against the ability of the consumer to use the "flat" market to extract market intel against you (the companies).

How about App Store app "deal breaker" that scans for sweet deals against your wish list at all times? "There's a sale at Penny's!!!!" /airplane

and on and on like this. Because of the App Store SpaceFace YouGoo Marketplace you get on-demand software, software provides your instant social change methodology\"upgrade path", and the world is never the same again. Wal-mart gives you cheap PODs (if you've got streaming media what do you need 100GB of storage local to your POD for? You can only listen to one song at a time) and it's fucking ON!

Software provides "reverse" localized data. Software provides public transport. Micropayments from phone to phone (Android v2 should feature on-board biometrics to go with your PIN unlock and software provides "pass code" vocal recognition (this is all so your POD is *yours* and less susceptible to theft (of course if all PODs are on the ON all the time...how can anybody really steal them very effectively?)) provide all kinds of crazy shit. Internet agents (software) provide constant scanning (again, this is really real right now, RSS feeds, push-data, etc).

Direct democracy via iPhone (POD is so much better). Movie reviews. "Flat" markets.

And so forth.