YES! If only this was the case. I guess the lack of this is the price to be
paid for cyberspace's (html) open 'standard'. Do you have any suggestions
on how to make a description system for a 3d cyberspace?
The problem with "The Virtual Fallacy" is that everyone has become
overly preoccupied with 3-d. 3-d shopping, 3-d Cyberspace. 3-d this,
3-d that. Real life is N-d, where N is arbitrarily large. From an
information access standpoint, we need to abandon this silly notion
that Cyberspace is 3-d. It never has been, and it never will be.
A "good" description system is one that can attach an object to a lot
of different axes in N-space. The simplest approach is a keyword
search - you want more attachments, you add more keywords. The
problem with keywords is that they really don't tell you very much
about anything. We need ways of linking things that are "smarter"
than keywords. AI approaches may be necessary.
Cyberspace will ultimately become a network of _complex_ semantic
linkages (nowadays the links are pretty simple.) In the future,
certain high-level "concepts" are going to be more valuable than
others, and people who want to make money are going to attepmt to
control the access to these concepts.
What does this mean for Art? I'm not sure, maybe others can pick up
on this. It certanly offers a new medium, one that we haven't really
seen yet. A medium of complex semantic links.
An ocean of thought.
I guess it would be real good for Conceptual Artists! 8-p
Cheers,
Brandon