Google Fabric of the Universe

Last night I had this great dream. I was hanging out in some weird but fancy hotel with my friend Irene and a bunch of other people. The scene seemed a bit like a dream sequence from Satoshi Kon's Paprika right on the threshold of where it gets weird. Irene (who works for Google) started showing me this new thing she'd been working on that I think she called Google Fabric of the Universe™. And then she started pointing at objects in the room and suddenly a floating overlay of scripting code would popup between us and the object and she would start manipulating it. It was a bit like the Javascript console in Firebug, except it was shimmering half opacity entire multiline blocks of code. In fact the code looked like Javascript, which I found annoying. Surely the fabric of the universe source code should be
something designed for concurrency like Erlang.

Anyhow, she started adding methods on objects and dispatching events. I guess it looked a little like Second Life except with an interactive console and hella better graphics. Tables started floating in the air, a toy fish started swimming around us. She showed me how to access the console (unfortunately I don't remember that part now) and I started experimenting. It was like being Neo from The Matrix. I was doing things like adding speech modules to the toy fish, connecting motion drivers to the callback delegates on people's shoes and making the wallpaper start to play YouTube videos. It was fun. It turned a bit darker when someone else started playing and they spawned a succubus that I spent most of the rest of the dream fending off. I made physical shields out of other objects in the room and brought in a flood and spawned a kayak to escape. Not sure what happened to Irene, but I'm sure she was OK. She works for Google.

p.s I've been hacking a lot lately, in case that wasn't obvious.

Comments

[treb]

Wow.  Seeing code in your dreams...  Very cool.  It'd be sweet if you could actually write out the code you saw and put it into practice.  Toy fish and YouTube wallpaper for everyone!

[ian]

[this is good] i'm a product guy so my dreams Alternate Reality dreams are mostly about commenting out objects and, more recently, Balsamiq sketches