Integral Operating System Version 1.0: A Multi-modal Platform for the Soul

For many thousands of readers, Ken Wilber has provided a model that actually makes sense of life and the universe. After spending decades streamlining this model into a concise, accessible form, Ken has finally created the ideal tool for sparking an immediate revolution of mind and spirit—The Integral Operating System. With this multi-modal "platform for the soul," users will learn how to see the world with a whole new level of understanding and philosophical sophistication.

At last, KW's Integral philosophy is getting on the techspeak bandwagon. Integral Operating System is really a cool techno metaphor for describing how AQAL can blow your mind away once you've downloaded its tenets. However, for tech junkies, I think that the OS metapor was already obsolete as soon as it was released. There was a time when I thought that a better tech metapor is Hyper-IOS. But now I think even that is bound for obsolescence very soon. Moving forward, I think that Integral should just stick with the hyperlink metaphor rather than an OS like Windows. It's more hip, not as techie as an operating system, and it is the single most important strand transcluding the Web.

Now some people would argue that hyperlink is an interconnected flatland version since all hyperlinks are created equal. Think again. Yes, the internal representation of hyperlinks are all created equal, but we create the ranking. Thanks to PageRank, Open Source, web services/APIs, and the ubiquitous nature of the Internet, we are becoming the Web's operating system, giving life and intelligence to a Machine with a "perfect search, total recall", and which is always already on.