• The Franchised Database Network, Was To Support:-

• GLOBAL TELEVISION - GLOBAL RADIO The networked systems could have taken a feed from all TV and radio stations worldwide, and then feed that signal out to anybody connected to the network, the franchised systems could have been linked to cable and satellite systems scanning the airwaves just sending the user, the type of radio and TV programs they liked, a bit like Sky + or an advanced version of the desktop sidebar.

• THE INTERNET would have been integrally linked, so looping in and out of the networked databases.

• INTELLIGENT HYPERLINKS A hyperlink allows access to related material, the databases were envisioned as allowing all of the hyperlinks to become more useful by becoming user defined. The users themselves through their interactions could help define the links allowing the systems to become self-organising (see transivity mechanisms). HTML stands for Hypertext markup language for those that didn't already know.

• OWNING THE RIGHTS TO VIRTUALISED IMAGES Just say your company owned the rights to let’s say the 3D virtualised images of the Spice Girls or Mozart. Your company could feed those images to their target audience in real time and those images could also be seen with any backdrop that they owned the rights to. E.g. your virtualised Mozart play's your virtual Wembley stadium.

• ONLINE EVERYTHING Go shopping inside Wembley stadium with the Spice Girls, but the users also got to select which companies products they wanted. In other words, if Asda or K-mart wanted to sell their goods, then they would have to pay for the rights to sell their goods within that virtualised environment. Plus if they wanted to use the virtualised Spice Girls to help sell their goods, then they would also have to pay for the use of those virtualised characters as well.

• NO LANGUAGE PROBLEMS, the network was to have acted as a translater between users. So a user could speak to a Japanese person in English and the Japanese person could hear that user talking to them in Japanese and vice versa (allowing for very large global communities to interact. Click here for more on this.

• FILMS / MUSIC / VIDEO MATERIAL OF ANY KIND Is now being sent to end users via global networks, all at the touch of a button. Just information stored digitally and sent digitally, any information can be pushed down your broadband line,

• BUSINESS The network was also to be used for business, so as to hold virtual board meetings etc, with let’s say the pyramids of Egypt, acting as a nice bit of virtual background imagery. Unlike teleconferencing, holding virtual meetings in virtual space is allowing for even easier ways to communicate ideas and information and in many ways that have only just begun to be fully realised. Visual aids are becoming redundant as they are now being replaced by their superior virtual equivalent, also see the Transparent Video Facetop.

• THE END USERS COULD ALSO BE VIRTUALISED, as software and hardware becomes more capable, then everybody should be able to own a digital version of themselves, for use in games / online meetings etc.

• ONLINE AUCTIONS - will probably take on a whole new lease of life, with the negotiation generation, battling it out within VR for the hottest bargains.

• All this is, is the manipulation of digital data in real time, and then allowing access to that information by any of the online community.

• All this, was seen as being fed to the end users from a network of franchised databases, that were centrally controlled and operated by a single company.

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