The thought of a JS implementation of PureData is exciting; the other examples are equally worth a look. The W3C has started the Audio Incubator Working Group as a means to begin standardization.

As Github points out, it’s worth taking a look at the CPU emulation component.

Bling bling!

Now imagine going to Amazon or Ebay and instead of seeing a list of items you could spend money on you see a list of items that let you know how easy it would be to change someone’s life in a 3rd world country, that tell you for what you spent on your watch you could have bought two bags of rice that would have lasted a family for months. Imagine these online retailers actually lending a perspective on how opulent we are compared to our neighbors in need and how the ability to influence the world for the better really is within reach of the individual. Pretty cool huh? And this is just the beginning. The first phase of the web has been about the access of information – putting at our finger tips what previously only resided in libraries and as stories told among friends. I imagine that the second phase is going to be about processing that information – about using it in ways that the content creators never imagined and even in ways counter to their intended purpose, as might be the case with the Amazon and Ebay examples. And as those lenses mature in the digital space they’ll start to spill over into the physical space as well, shifting our perspectives on people and objects and all of the other interesting things we encounter every day, in real time. Suddenly walking a mile in another man’s shoes won’t be so hard and in fact might be as enlightening as the old adage would lead us to believe.