Why is Collaboration not a Pervasive Part of Computing?

Danie Roux

http://blog.danieroux.com

Mother of All Demos

• Computer mouse
• Paper/desktop paradigm
• Video conferencing
• Teleconferencing
• Email
• Hypertext

Alan Kay

From the man who gave us personal computing:

"The computer revolution has not happened yet"

"... you'll see we're basically just automating paper - using digital versions of documents and mail."

"Best way to predict the future is to invent it"

Croquet Project

Croquet is a development environment for the creation of multi-user virtual 3D applications and metaverses that are

• persistent,
• deeply collaborative
• interconnected and
• interoperable.

Some of the architects

• David A. Smith
• David P. Reed

Wow factors

• Peer to peer
• Self-hosted
• Continuously modifiable
• Multiverses

QWAQ Forums

• Create, link your own workspaces
• Persistent
• Immersive collaboration

Summary

• Principle of linguistic relativity

References

http://www.opencroquet.org http://qwaq.com/qwaq_forums.html http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/index.html