I am floating inside a media engine.  It is spherical.  I gaze around at the clear seamless interior, and through at the life teeming on its outer surface.  Every blip and flash that registers through the engine reasonates inside the sphere, in purely imaginary space. Outside, my sphere is the world around me, floating in a sea of spheres dancing to a brilliant and mysterious orchestral score.  Inside one of these spheres, I see you.  Your blips and flashes reasonate through my media engine. Inside my sphere, I have total control.  I am happy to see you.  For an instant our spheres merge completely and we are sharing the same experience. Bouncing back into the chaotic sea, we travel through the sounds the sights the smells from the spheres all around. This could be a story about our mortal coil.  We interface with the world through the sights, the sounds, the smells, and all of the senses including those that we can't fully explain.  Each of these is a port on the rest of spacetime for our one little seafoam bubble.  Our bubbles have a completely subjective perspective.  But we do have communication through these various ports.  I'm currently connected to you through the sight port.  I happen to know you have a few sound ports you've connected through.  When together, we connect through many ports.  Sight, sound, smell (when I rip a beef). Then there are those rare experiences with a connection on a deep, difficult-to-explain level.  Sharing a common bubble, so to speak. This media engine could also describe a device.  One port, for example, could be television.  I could communicate to your mortal coil through a television port.  You could communicate back to me.  Our channels would be as limitless as people with a port.  I've already got an email port. You've created a web port.  The media engine, however, would have to provide you with access to any medium, through a single device. Anyway, that's where i am.  In the middle of a media engine.  Thinking about ports.  I want to put everybody on TV. There's an idea lurking behind this, which says:  Most traditional mediums like television and radio provide limited access for just anyone to chime in with their own ditty.  First of all, they have historically been very difficult and expensive to program.  That is changing.  Also, they are very hierarchical, with an alarmingly small group of people feeding the minds of an alarmingly large group of people.  The Web changed that, by making a bold statement about individuality.  You could make a website that sucked just as bad as you wanted it to suck, unless of course you didn't realize how bad it sucked.  But look at the amazing proliferation of creative works as well. But there's television & radio.  I want to get television from you!  I don't have that channel yet.  I'm thinking about building that channel.