William Mitchell, the head of the MIT Media Lab media arts and sciences, has written a book, "Me++" ] Me++ describes the move from virtual reality - the old ] 90s idea of the net as a separate, alternative realm - to ] "augmented reality" (AR), in which ubiquitous computing ] and mobile wireless networks are used to reconnect us to ] the real world. ] ] Mitchell muses on how AR will change our sense of our ] selves. Me++ is "a play on C++, the popular programming ] language. Among programmers,++ means incremented or ] extended, so Me++ suggests the computationally extended ] self." He suggests we should no longer think of ourselves ] as "fixed, discrete individuals", but as nodes in a ] network. "I am part of the networks and the networks are ] part of me. I am visible to Google. I link, therefore I ] am." "I link, therfore I am," has resonance for MemeStreams. Guardian Unlimited | Online | I link, therefore I am |