Microvision (MVIS) Blog: Inspiration Engine: "What people really want is to be inspired.

location based services

To see things through the eyes of a child is an amazing thing. Everything is new and wondrous. Things like a day at the baseball park become awe-inspiring adventures. It's a really tremendous thing to be a parent and be so close to that awe and wonder at the world. I try to share in my little boy's excitement about the little things that make up our lives. Energy is contagious...

The really important thing that I've learned from my little boy is that there's no room for cynicism in life. Each day is a fresh start and a new opportunity to go out and experience life and make things happen out in the wide world. For me, it's also an opportunity to create value for readers of MVIS Blog and offer up my creativity and whatever insight I can into how the world may be changing and where we are in that process.

So, I'm really grateful for that lesson and happy to be able to share that little bit of my 'real life' with you.

The 3D Internet

An important thing that I realized reflecting back on the podcast I recorded last Thursday was that I have been maybe making my vision of the future of the internet a little more complex and potentially confusing than it needs to be. During the discussion of the 'geospatial metadata layer' I found myself explaining the term and what it really means and stumbled upon a far more elegant way to describe the same thing.

The analogy I used is that the next stage of growth of the internet will be powered by the addition of the third dimension, specifically depth. Depth is what will transform the internet. We can think of the internet now as basically a collection of flat, 2D pages that can be navigated around and clicked on in order to perform transactions, consume multimedia, read ne"