Hi,
Here are my filling about our futur.
I was thinking hardly about the "Amiga and MorphOS futur" since some days and arrived to a conclusion.

Today, the community is realy smal and divided. This is not a news.
To attract new users, we need to innovate the Computing world with something amazing.
There's a lot of experimental technologies not emploeyd by the people.
We need something completly inovative, something like IA or stéréoscopy.
BBRV speaks about a pegasos game box, we could sold it with 3D LCD stéréoscopic glasses and a set of games using it. It would be original to the masse market and give a chance for the Pegasos to be sell a lot.

IA, would be nice to. A basic IA introduced on morphos giving you informations about the application you are using.
Explanning you how to install your new printer
It could be an "how to do..." commodity called by pressing HELP.
An IA with an human attractive interface like Voice synthe and a nice girl or play-boy 3D "tinyGL" face smilling to you and teaching you a lot of computer things would be funny to.
I know this is a function quickly disable by users and boring a lot of people, but it's a market argument very impressive for the people.

to finish my post, I want tell, this things would be part of morphos and not an application because the idea is to give to morphos an realy original feature and not just using an original thing on this system.

others original ideas ?

That's all.

Yes, it could be nice, but i think that first are more important things as more apps, we have a ot of lack of certain apps that are on other operating systems... And more drivers...

Another nice things could be a reimplementaion of the narrator.device, but now will be a lot of better speech syntesis, and support of various idioms (english, spanish, french, german, chinese, japanese...) supporting various types of female and male voices...This thing could be used for STB-like devices and others...

AI? If is very well used could be awesome, if is used as the #### of m$ office, theen not...
Another nice thing could be identification of the user by voice.. And making MorphOS completely multiuser could be nice too, but optional, and the user can use it if likes it or desactivate it...

And when integrated japanese support in MorphOS?

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Unicode shall be the rigth path to follow.

Does mos support unicode?

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Reminds me of a certain annoying paper-clip.

For something really innovative, you're probably too late on this, too. AFAIK Apple is working on some kind of voice-explained program interface for MacOS 10.3.4. More or less an input aid for users with disabilities.

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Exactly, so why put efforts in this if most people won't use it anyway?

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Doubt this would be a real argument.

Oh well ... sure something innovative would be nice. But it would be nice to have something that's actually usable for people and helps everyone in everyday work. This just isn't. If the MorphOS project had unlimited development resources ... maybe this would make a nice gimmick for some people. But it ain't so.

So for now, I'd suggest just bringing MOS up to the standards of other OSes, maybe with some smart ideas, would be top priority. Speaking of TCP/IP, Unicode, powerful text edit controls with support for international text layout etc.

way back around the beginning of december Targhan and I were talking about my making various "tutorials". I was thinking video. Some things don't need a big complicated explaintion, but some things are a bit more involved.

And, not being a programmer i'm not sure how these things would be accessed via Ambiant.

in any case, while I like the idea of "helps", I have to find a way to make it pay as i just can't spend the time it would take to do such things for free. the landlord insists on getting money

i do believe that one of the biggest issues with people using computers is that there are things which are actually simple to do or use but remain hidden because no one is explaining how to use them. and as someone who have written lots of these tutorial type of things, i have some experience in how to make something complex seem less daunting.

if we want to pry people away from windows, we not only need more and betters apps, we need an easy way to introduce the whole system to people who are COMPLETELY computer ignorant.