Greetings! You have reached a breeding ground of software, hardware and network services that facilitate the making, telling and exchange of our stories. GriotVision exists because because her story, his story - our story, the stories of Life are how humans express everything that we care about.
GriotVision is what you get when computer technologies are designed to support storytelling. While people are always using computers to tell stories, the computer doesn’t provide much support for storytelling techniques, let alone give storytelling a primary role. There are a few exceptions - television, film, animation and game production for example. However, storytelling is central to all human endeavors. GriotVision is part of an attempt to chart a new direction for media and information systems, a direction that builds upon and extends existing forms within a framework of storytelling. Although broad in scope, GriotVision is rooted in practical, demonstrable technologies.
Like television, GriotVision consists of many different hardware devices, software and services and must be defined in a broad context. Here’s what a Webster’s dictionary entry might look like:
gri·ot·vi·sion
Pronunciation: ‘grE-”O vi-zh&n
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Date: 2003
1:a system of transmitting and interacting with accounts of incidents or events by apparatus that convert and reconvert digital representations of people, objects and places.2:one or more griotvision virtual experience devices VED and their controller, G-STICK
3:the griotvision multicasting ecosystem b:griotvision as a medium of communication
Webster’s definition of television includes the “television broadcasting industry” but cable and satellite have expanded beyond the broadcasting model while the organization of participants hardly fit the machine-age idea of an “industry” so I’ve chosen to use the term ecosystem instead - it feels like a better fit. It seems likely that the GriotVision multicasting ecosystem(or something similar) will absorb the various “industries” which currently dominate computing, communication, media and consumer electronics. Eventually, as the discipline of Rhythmeering emerges, it will become part of the fabric of all existing and new industries. That may seem like a tall order, but the seeds have already been planted and are growing. A new era of computing and communications is emerging and it is story driven. This blog will keep you up to date.
Laurence Rozier, Inventor of GriotVision
