Take Pidgin[1] as an example. Pidgin is a universal chat client. It's a glue between the many chat clients that exist... It's a monkey patch for chat multiplicity but you get the idea. However the Unity API cannot be a monkey patch. It must be a mutual undertaking from the beginning. Don't you people understand? Multiplicity is undermining our future evolution.
[Anecdote] Once when i was a very young lad (long before computers were mainstream) i became terribly troubled by the fact that every generation must spend roughly a quarter of it's lifetime just catching up to the knowledge of the last generation. This fact does not seem very troublesome at first glance, but lets create a microcosm... <Tangential Meanderings>...what if you suffered from amnesia every morning and you had to spend 1/4 of the day catching up to where you were the day before? This would kill your productivity! But that is not the point i am making here folks! <\back on track> The fact that we constantly re-invent the wheel is a product of a very important missing feature of most humans of which is devastating to our evolution as intelligent agents. [The Punchline] Anyway, my solution to this collective "re-education" was the upload. We could simply plug up, upload all former knowledge, and off we'd go! [The Knockout] However when i shared my solution with someone [unnamed] he laughed and said: "But that would take the challenge out of life. Nothing remaining to learn if you can just download it"... aghast with horror i just shook my head. This person had no imagination! [The Moral] Stop being sheep and start the revolution people! Stop being slaves to multiplicity and be the master of the singularity. Our future (or lack thereof) is in YOUR hands! [1] http://www.pidgin.im/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
