I always used to think in my head "mail man, femail man," when I'd watch the mail man, or the more politically correct postal worker, come by the house when I was a kid. Or a yoot, whichever you prefer.
Strange, isn't it? I was just thinking yesterday that, because snail mail is called, "mail," email should have been called, "femail." There would then be no need for a "femail man," which would be nice. It has an intimate ring to it, doesn't it?
Maybe "femail" should be the name given to the evolution of remote human interaction, in much the same way that email revolutionized the concept of mail:
Eventually we'll see a world with a ubiquitous network; one that permeates the atmosphere and connects devices--forget devices. HUMANS connected together. The system would connect users all over the world with a series of nodules as a directional identifier. I could be known as mike.watson.albany.georgia.us.earth.milkyway. Earth.milkyway would be would be a forward compatibility for an extraterrestrial network--in the works.
Security could be a system of
PGP codes that underlie the unique name--trusted acceptance would allow the user directly to identify me as my full locale identifier or even just Mike or Watson, or Mike.Watson. Maybe the separator would be different than the "." period, but a trusted node could call me anything they want, and it could automatically be saved with their personal identifier. Attempting to contact me directly by overriding the PGP would be an uphill effort, for sure. Social mediums, however, would allow others to see your node name, but the only way you could use my node is to receive a trusted node pass directly from me. Each node would be able to identify the level of security for all different activities in conjunction with external trusted nodes.
Along with this network, we will need a "femail" system that allows trusted users to communicate with "intertrusted" users directly. It would be the convergence of the cellular, txt, multimedia message system, and mail system as one--along with
other conceptual interactivity. Documents could be sent to you directly, stored in your own brain, or maybe a localized Arbitrary Organic Storage (AOS). As well could you receive short messages, sensations and smells (limited matrices of interactions with the olfactory and/or nervous systems). Sights, smells, sounds, and sensations would be directly sensed, rather than as a secondary effort, such as holding up a picture; you can opt to see, feel, hear, smell or taste what your trusted friends intend.
It is a pretty far off concept, and you probably would never need an iPhone--the iPad would be useless, sadly. School would be obsolete; we could arbitrarily learn and understand concepts and languages by direct relation with sub-cognitive association, rather than having to memorize and cognitively make associations.
Maybe we'll never achieve the kind of reasoning skills needed to interact on such a grand level.
