USERS - LeFreq/Singularity GitHub Wiki
Users are the people in front of the computer. There are 4 main users:
- data stewards
- system maintainers (programmers)
- customers
- application designers.
One of these need a keyboard for sophisticated input. One of these needs a screen for sophisticated...
How should a user relate to a general-purpose computer? A general-purpose computer can do about anything honoring basic and logical cause and effect. A more massive bandwidth interface would be some kind of device where your hands to move an object through three dimensions.
Imagine a multi-layered ball (noospheres?), that allows you to move each sphere to any location in its "Reimann plane" of rotation in order to set a parameter of a complex function. Hitting a button (or some indicator) drops you to a different depth of abstraction. Imagine 4 such layers, such that if your sphere is 1ft in diameter with 100 points of resolution in each square inch, with just a few movements a user can select between 5.9x1015 possible entries with one sphere reserved for rotating the image of the CYBERSPACE.
In other words, you can manipulate a complicated knowledge space efficiently using the domain A, of geometry.
Every user in CYBERSPACE has:
- a unique node name
- an arbitrary, single-packet, public message attached to their node ("This is UC Berk Singularity project. Please don't overload our servers. Contact [email protected]>"
- one or more public tags associated with the user (what they offer and what they want: "Gaming", "Science").
- private paypal or 3rd party money service for receiving or giving rewards.
Regarding the tags, users must master the ontology to "read" the complexity in a node's color. This implied that it should be protected.
The basic idea is to follow biomimicry for what is public, what is inferable with a little effort, and what is private. Keeping in mind, Singularity has about 5(?) levels of SECURITY to differentiate these levels of trust. For example, the fact that a node is communicating presently could be public, while the messages are private. The destination of where the conversations are occuring could perhaps be identifyable with a little effort.