I don’t typically engage in government conspiracy theories (with the exception of defending the NASA Moon landings…don’t get me started). It never once occurred to me that the events of 9/11 were anything more than what we were told on the news. Perhaps that’s a clear illustration of how the average American was “supposed” to respond to those horrible events. I, like many others, suddenly became overwhelmed with a feeling of patriotism and united with fellow Americans in believing that we were viscously attacked and “at war”.

Yesterday I sat through a well composed independent documentary making some strong assertions about how our very own government was solely responsible for executing the events of that day and the subsequent cover up. While I’m by no means convinced this is entirely true, it has made me question my own recollection of that day and the resulting actions of a government who became “justified” in several questionable actions over last few years. That day was a complicated set of events with a number of uncontrollable variables, namely people under extreme stress. Will we ever know the truth? Will the American public blindly swallow the government’s “story”. Are the Conspiracy theorists simply bored and need a new challenge? Or will this become the next conspiracy theory to be analyzed for decades like the JFK assassination.

It’s long, but well worth a look.

Forget Web 2.0 hype, forget shoddy limited vocabulary voice activation - this is true evolution of a UI. If you saw the under rated Michael Bay film The Island, this exact concept was superbly carried out with green screen special effects, but based on very realistic technology. In the movie an entire desk top was an intractable multipoint interface. I just had no idea its was real. Amazing. I can’t wait to find out more about it’s development.

Imagine the possibilities.