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 is senior programmer for SCE-RT
Sony CEA and the former chief of technology
development for Playnet. He has worked on vehicle
design and manufacturing for the disabled and is
co-coordinator for the World Interfacing group of
IGDA's Artificial Intelligence Interface
Standards Committee (ASIIC). He is currently
working with a team of other programmers to
support and extend Sony's SCE-RT online
technology supporting numerous titles on the
PS2/PSP/PS3 platforms including direct support of
SOCOM2/3 and First Party NextGen titles.
What is your
greatest fear for the future of networked
technologies? I'm not sure that
I'm necessarily fearful for the future of
technology. I think that, one way or another
we'll sort of evolve and we'll tackle
these problems one way or the other. What I
really fear is that we'll slow down that
progress with either our commercial interests
sort of working with the political interests to
say "we need these particular laws" and
not realizing their impact and how they're
going to slow down the progress. I think the
progress is going to be there one way or the
other because we as humans are going to evolve
into this space.
What is your most
fervent hope for the future of networked
technologies? What I want to see happen
is the ability for us to really expand on some of
the social networking we're seeing right now.
Which is we're going to be able to go and
really accelerate the types of social
interactions that we have. If I go online I'm
going to be able to instantly search out people
of similar interests, of similar thought
processes and be able to interact with them
real-time or whatever, so that social networking
becomes easy, fast and second-nature. And we
really don't necessarily have that
yet.
What do you think
policymakers should do to ensure a positive
future for networked technologies?
Realistically the biggest issues I keep coming
across as far as impediments for expanding the
social network is privacy – how we deal
with that as far as what we can and cannot put on
the web, what laws are actually going to be
important to protect our data as we put it on the
net. Those types of things are important because
if we don't start protecting those properly,
people are going to be afraid to actually extend
their thought processes into the web and actually
enable better social interactions.
Looking out more than 10 years, what
development will have the greatest impact on
society? More than 10 years out is going
to be more of a vanishing interface that enables
us to directly access the web or any information
any virtual information directly without
necessarily having a separate device that we
actually have to access. To get rid of the
fumbling that we all do, whether it's typing,
talking or whatever and be able directly access
it. So it's basically just sort of offline
storage or interaction space for us. Sort of a
blackboard that we all can work with. That would
be beyond the 10-year mark – something that
I would see really enabling.
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