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An admiring comment:

The extent to which people are developing and proposing visionary solutions
in Smalltalk is mind-boggling.  No other software invention in my memory has
inspired such a flood of innovations.  If not for the fact that the
inventors participate in this mailing list, I would think they were gods or
aliens instead of "merely" talented human beings.  Maybe it's the close
collaboration they maintained over the years that allows them to create
something greater than they would have as individuals.  If so, creating a
collaborative morphic world in Squeak is the most important project any of
us can work on.  My congratulations and encouragement to those of you who
are already engaged!

Ed

> We have implemented a working MOO prototype in VisualWorks,
> mostly just a framework with limited functionality. We are now
> designing another version, possibly to be functional around the end
> of the year.
>

> > I've implemented:
> >  o. speech synthesis (text-to-speech and singing voices)
> >  o. simple gestures synthesis (2D faces, SouthPark-like toons)
> >  o. 3D facial animation (the Waters' muscles model)
>

> > >
> > > In this picture, an Morphic book wouldn't be found by
> > > reaching out across the network and loading it; instead, there'd be
> > > a more or less far away part of your image (maybe dressed up as an
> > > Alice world) that would let you wander around and find the book you
> > > wanted.  Perahaps the author would hand it to you, if he happened to
> > > be around.
> > >
> > > While working, instead of the discussion Swiki, there'd be
> > > small knots of others, gathered around places of interest
> > > to them.  You could glance around and see if anyone
> > > was nearby, possibly interested in what you were up to.