…………….. [Yawn]

When something new hits the airwaves the world immediately polarizes. A few marvel, open-mouthed. The rest shake their heads sadly, “It’ll never catch on”, “It was better in my day” …..

Take RSS. It’s everywhere now. RSS is the new tsunami. It’s also the new salami and origami. There’s RSS ~ sorry, web-clips ~ on cell phones. RSS ~ pardon me, feeds ~ on almost anything that plugs in or carries a battery. What could be next?

Syntagma has it on good authority that the next incarnation of RSS will be in sunglasses. Yes, as we go about our business, a slow moving line of text will pass across our vision, holographically projected a foot or so in front of us. A century hence, ophthalmic philosophers will trace the moment the human race became universally cross-eyed from the introduction of RSS in specs.

Advantages? There are few. We’ll be force-fed: “It’s much worse than it looks…” from Dave Winer. Scoble saying, “No religious literature in our sunglasses, puleeeze!” “Bring back plodcasting,” cries Winer. “Contribute to a zimmer frame for BillG,” implores Larry Page.

It’ll never catch on.