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If you haven't seen it already, now is a good time to go rent and watch the anime series called Serial Experiments Lain.  From wikipedia...

Lain is influenced by philosophical subjects such as reality, identity, and communication. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network similar to the Internet.

The Wired is a complex and enormous computer network that dwarfs the modern day internet in size, dimension, and complexity. It is said that with the very first telegraph transmission a whole new layer of reality, an informational layer so to speak, was created and with its growth it has come to be known as the Wired. A special chip was released for NAVIs called the Psyche that would allow one to use his own mind as a co-processor, thus boosting the speed of the processor and the Navi itself. The Wired has advanced so much by this time that the speed of access as well as the amount of data able to be accessed in the Wired is actually limited only by the speed and ability of the NAVI being used to connect.

Lain lives with her middle class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her cold mother, and her computer-obsessed father. The first ripple on the pond of Lain's lonely life appears when she learns that girls from her school have received an e-mail from Chisa Yomoda, a schoolmate who committed suicide. When Lain receives the message at home, Chisa tells her (in real time) that she is not dead, but has just "abandoned the flesh", and has found God in the Wired. From then on, Lain is bound to a quest which will take her ever deeper into both the network and her own thoughts.

We're at point on the web, where Lain's Wired is not that far way.  I keep sensing a kind of union occuring on the web.  This union or convergence is fluxuating all the time as players on the scene battle it out for presence on the never ending radar of the consumer in this new digital wired world.

Lately the emergence of signs that a kind of Wired like reality have been occuring more so than usual.  Google is by far one of the bigger players on the scene. A few months ago the net got the rumor of their own mobile phone experience that is soon to debut.  Then we began hearing about their intention of getting into the virtual world scene, aka vs Second Life and we know they have a hold on us when it comes to maps and experiences like google maps/earth.  Today they bought Jaiku and thrusted themselves into the small but highly visible scene of microblogging, leaving Twitter and Pownce to wonder what will happen next.

Could Google's deal with Multiverse Network be the the beginnings of the Wired? 

"The goal is to grab things from the 3D Warehouse when looking at things in Google Earth and then make an instant multiverse world," - Cnet Article

Alot of this hodge podge theater of course, realization and finalization is a long ways out, but its in these bit moves do we see technology niches unfold into real movements of change.  If they can Wire up, my hometown, Columbus, Ohio with 3d models, adding avatars as people hang out, then hit me up with location based awareness that is accurate to the real places i'm virtually hanging out at, we have a kind of mirror world unfolding here, all powered and fueled by Google.  That could be a very cool experience. 

Tags: google, multiverse, cnet, wired, serialexperiments, lain, jaiku, secondlife

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