The Venice Project

Sounds like a Grisham or a Ludlum bestseller right? Visions of a Matt Damon like hunk racing across the streets of some exotic location dodging bullets races across your mind? A book that will shake the foundations of the belief that Mother Earth is in good hands. Ta rah!

Naah! The Venice Project is none of this at all. But my last statement there, that bit about shaking the foundations, yeah, that could be true with what The Venice Project is aiming to do. Technology and what we're doing with it, where we're going with it seems to have become my pet peeve. No it isn't really, but hell, I can't escape it. It's omnipresent. Just like you I'm bombarded with stuff that, as I mentioned earlier is scaring the hell out of me. It might be exciting stuff and exciting times for those who get turned on by the 'T' word, and so The Venice Project is one such umm...one such...er...project (for want of a better word).

Check out www.joost.com and read the story here - http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/0,72506-1.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1

When I first read it sometime last week, I was blown. It's beyond my limited powers of understanding. But what I understood, it seemed, well, yes, the next big thing after Google. And that's saying something ain't it?

Read it, ponder over it, and then I guess, we can all just go 'joost'ing.

The next word to enter the Oxford Dictionary will be joost. We'll send MMSes to each other asking 'did you joost today'? We'll have joost schedules and we'll have joost kiosks and joost will be part of our everyday consciousness.

Anyway, methinks I'll go sign-up for the beta testing of 'joost'. Guess it'd take joost a minute (sorry, couldn't help myself with that parting shot, however cheap).