CCNx (code) is a next-generation content-centric “networking” protocol born from the CCN research group at PARC. Instead of connecting hosts like traditional protocols, CCNx creates a P2P model where clients address data instead of other clients (protocol overview).

I, for one, don’t want to ask the lights of my home-of-the-future to dim by way of an IPv6 address, and I don’t think we’ll be running DNS servers for our homes either - naming every appliance and application would be a chore. I hope to explore the implications of “everyware”, as Adam Greenfield calls it, on future networking in later posts.

(via Trivium)

Your editor’s views did not spring fully-formed like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, although he sometimes likes to think so. No, instead he has done lots of reading of smart folks’ writings, and you should too. Here are a couple of websites, authors, and resources to explore.

• Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, who also writes at Speedbird about futuristic urbanism, interface design, and design and architecture.
• Raymond Kurzweil is an inventor (the scanner, OCR, TTS, speech recognition, and the synthesizer) and transhumanist. He predicted the future by inventing it, and continues to do so.
• Marvin Minsky and Eleizer Yudkowsky have done some thinking about AI.
• The Long Now Foundation “was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.”

Note: I’ll keep updating this page, so check back.