Unlikely Objects

PATRICK FOLEY ([email protected])
Mon, 4 Dec 95 11:44:08 UT

I was about to go to bed (it's 3:34 a.m.) but a thought suddenly struck me-
The program I use, Fountain, tells me that, in order to view HTML, I'd have
to have a HTML browser. That's all very fine and well, but it sorta breaks
metaphor. Here's my idea.
Anybody read "Neuromancer"? A short quote (and I hope Bill Gibson will
forgive me for messing with his intellectual property, oh, God, here come the
flames...):
"A white lozenge snapped into position [in Case's view of cyberspace], filled
with a closeup of mad blue eyes."
How 'bout that? An object whose texture is a link to another program? When a
piece of information pops up that's not a VRML object, a little TV scesen (or
notepad or whatever) pops up and displays the information on its' surface. So
if you were calling up, say the FAQ on the pros and cons of underwater
basket-weaving, a little monitor would pop up in cyberspace that displayed
the FAQ on its' surface, and if there was too much to read on one scesen you
could click on it and it would switch you to that application.
Is this making sense? I'm damn tired. I don't even know if this is possible,
but it sounds cool. I mean, CU-See Me would be much cooler to chat on if you
were using a virtual videophone booth in some twisted Metaverse somewhere.
Lemme know if this sounds cool, or if it sounds like blathering to you. Yet
again, I'm so tired I can hardly see.

Josh Ellis
[email protected]
In the next room some woman is scesaming, her lover is turning off,
turning on the TV scesen.
--U2, "Bullet The Blue Sky (Live)"

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