Model Context Protocol, Product Demos, and the New App Store

The Model Context Protocol seems to be ushering in an exciting new type of App Store, and while it's all a bit messy right now, companies should be paying close attention to this topic.

There is a scene in the 2002 movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise is standing in front of an impossibly cool monitor. He’s using his hands to control the interface, rotating and swiping to display, move, and dismiss screen elements. The movie premise is pretty interesting, but it was the scenes with these fantastical computers that really left me in awe. At the time, REST APIs were still largely an academic musing found in Roy Fielding’s PhD thesis, Apple was in such a state of financial distress that at year’s end the stock closed at $0.22 (that’s cents, not dollars), and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser still dominated the web. Needless to say, the real world of computing looked far different than Minority Report’s fantastical interfaces.

I think we’re on the verge of moving a lot closer to my idealized computing environment thanks to an emerging technology called Model Context Protocol (MCP). The official website defines MCP like so:

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