Image courtesy of http://www.cybergeography.org/, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).
A very different way of looking at the Internet was created by MIT's Media Lab. City of News is a three dimensional browsing system for navigating a digital network as you would a physical cityscape. It works very much like the VisitorVille application but has an 'iPod advert' feel to it. This piece interests me because like the real world, as you can see from the image above, you cannot see the whole structure, the three dimensional buildings obstruct the viewing of various other websites (buildings). This is a kind of real world restriction very much like the time restriction in my idea, it makes you think about how you use the Internet. For example unlike the real world when you view a website (object) thanks to the Internet Browser, the 'framing' or 'associate bandwidth' is always the same, the amount of light or time of day doesn't effect the virtual world.
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