There are days when, talking to people about The World of Always-On, I sound a little crazy even to myself.

But I know I'm on the right track. Because every once in a while I meet a vendor who "gets it."

And every once in a while I see a profile of someone else who "gets it," like this recent piece on Leonard Kleinrock.

Kleinrock, now on the UCLA faculty (the picture is from his home page there) proclaims himself "father of the Internet technology." He pioneered packet switching while at MIT, and a decade later his host at UCLA became the first node on the Internet.

These days he's sounding a lot like yours truly. "Right now, cyberspace lives behind a screen in your computer. I want it to come out in the physical world," is the way he put it to David Stonehouse, an Australian reporter. "It will be on my belt, in my fingernails, on my desk, in my shoes, in my eyeglasses, in the world that I enter."

Well, exactly. The questions are, how do we get there from here, and what will we be doing with it? God knows Kleinrock wasn't thinking of Matt Drudge when they plugged-in his lab computer 35 years ago.

That's what this blog is about, and that's what I'm researching. I think we start with a scalable, modular, robust platform that combines the best of PC and Internet technology. Then we build high-value applications on it -- security applications, medical applications, personal inventory applications. Only then do we extend, outward into the world, and deeper into our lives.

I'm going to track this in the real world of business, which is where I make my living, because I'm not qualified to do the technical stuff. I hope you will be my eyes and ears in all this, extending the reach of my work until we find the real story, and impact it positively.

That's what this blog is about. That's my professional mission.

I'm not crazy.