Steve Smith at MediaPost published a short piece this afternoon entitled “Make My World Clickable,” in which he muses about the allure of turning the non-virtual world (as Smith cheekily calls it) into one huge reality-blanketing web app.

Sound familiar? The Web Outside, indeed.

Smith, a self-proclaimed “modern urban creature saturated in electronic media,” decries organic beauty in favor of the digital version thereof. To capture his worldview in a quick nugget: “I also have this overwhelming desire to turn up the color setting on landscapes so that the outdoor world better matches the fantastic palette of my Sony HDTV.”

Smith comments that he’d like to see the mobile phone “as a universal mouse on reality.” Although I tend to lean towards the terminology “universal remote control,” Steve and I are definitely on the same page on this one.

And his dream of a “standard, friction-less mobile pull technology” may be further along than he thinks…

Smith’s article can be found on MobileInsider at MediaPost (subscription required).

[tags]Steve Smith, MediaPost, MobileInsider, The Web Outside[/tags]