P O V - Point Of View 

First, the link to the article. Food for thought, a good chew over some background stuff, and an enlightening look at “not JUST one man’s” vision for the future of the web as we do NOT know it - yet.

But as we may know it intimately in the future…. yes, wholeheartedly yes!

(Another great post on this whole “nexweb” concept here…. and here….)

I say that having come recently from a disturbing discussion regarding the progression forward (using xhtml/xml as the “progressing” technology) of a new blogging platform - with a final “vote” in favor of regression to html 4.01 which seems not only shortsighted in the extreme but in the case of the software under discussion, deliberately obstructive. I was one small voice/vote in that debate, and had this series of articles popped up sooner, I would have perhaps had more ammunition in the particular discussion.

My point? If you cannot imagine the future - no, I’m not talking specific details per se; I’m talking an overarching ability to allow your imagination to encompass things which it perhaps cannot even BEGIN to actively visualize - you will remain mired in today. Regarding the software platform, those “four horsemen of the non-apocalypse” effectively mired a potential bright star in the mud of today’s technology. Why? Because they A: feel threatened by a Web which apparently they are not only not capable of imagining, they aren’t going to be capable of using; and B: their agenda is stagnation, not stimulation.

Today is nice. It’s safe. It doesn’t require any ability to flex, to change, to IMAGINE change. Is that where YOU want to be?

Or do you want to GO, to reach the stars, to stretch your entire being reaching for that next level?

I know where I want to be, to go, to reach. How about you?