With extent of modern technologies it’s not hard to imagine future where information surrounds people and stuff around them. How would you feel living in the world, where each thing around you is connected to web, where the reality became a mere part of the web?

Can we touch that future right now? Let’s play. Let’s imagine all technologies required are already at out disposal, and all that Digital Ether is coming to real at the moment.

Today, 9th of June 2009 we are starting our game about futures of Digital Ether and Origami Cards. Game will take place until 24th of June.

We invite you to join and play with us.

Join our game!

Some additional information will help you to prepare for the game

• Step-by-step instruction on “how to play”
• Game rules and principles
• Stages of the game
• Different kinds of game-cards

Internet - as we understand it today - consists of a quantity of websites which are separated in space. Like moving between countries you can move from one website to another and find another world with its own design, content, and rules. However borders between different websites are diffusing due to OpenStack protocols spreading (and other DataPortability initiatives spreading). Soon internet will become seamless world thanks to “widgets” and “gadgets”. But one border is still quite strong.

This border is a monitor screen which divides our life on “real” and “internets”. A lot of people live a big part of their lives in the Web. They communicate, share their most important things over the Web, and even find such things there (for instance, due to “Facebook” or “Twitter”).

Let’s imagine future without this border. Information about people and things surrounds them at the very same place where people and things are, it covers them and is available at any time. Welcome to the future of ubiquitous computing and omnipresent information.

Welcom to the kingdom of Digital Ether.

Let’s imagine next generation of electronic paper. It is connected to internet and has a touch-sensitive surface to interact with its owner. It is something like i-phone but thinner, lighter, and cheaper.

Why would it be possible? Firstly, in ubiquitous internet world you won’t need any GSM-module. Secondly (because of the same reason) you won’t need memory device and high-speed processor. Finally, you won’t need heavy battery.

So “sticks-from-the-future” devices will be pieces of electronic paper — let’s call them “Origami cards” — which are by the way almost as cheap as a usual paper. So people will be able to have a lot of cards, share them with others, easily throw out old and buy new ones.

Origami card will become not individual device but universal mediator between a man and information, between different people. Origami cards will become doors in the Digital Ether.

Let’s see more technical details about Origami.