nicole, I think you can't feel too bad about denying requests... I think ppl understand now that resources are limited and real human interaction (even if in the form of a denied request) is a valued service...
automated language translation is a primitive example of semantic intelligence... try google.com/translate... and try translating some phrase from English to French to English -- and see how AI can be useful but still fail to be perfect. but then humans aren't perfect, either.
I appreciate you 'getting the message out there', but is seems so much more complex. It's been an uphill battle to challenge people to thnk critically - with the pace of printed media, how much more so with a dearth of information. I wonder if Western education is prepared to deal with the changes required
There is video embedded in actual magazine or book pages that talks to you, can be recharged, so works as long as you have the page etc. intersting combination of "new" and old technology, any thoughts on that?
Semantic intelligence and "smart bots" is still a long way off, unless they are used in incredibly focused, narrow topics. Even then, too expensive and complicated to deploy en masse.
I've seen a couple of new products being developed that use internet content (blogs, chat rooms, etc.) as "focus groups" for determining the maket perceptions of products - they apply multiple AI atrategies and the results are astonishingly accurate
argonne -- not cynical, just honest. Unfortunately, the Internet has been disappointing so far in terms of arranging useful info. But there is huge potential to improve that.
i'm working on something with my friend, Keith Teare (who founded Real Names), to build a more manageable source of curated information. Anyone interested can email me at a.keen@me.com
it would seem as we are increasing our access to noise. Anyone can write a book, today just about anyone can get one published - that doesn't mean that we don't have to sort through so much noise to find quality. If we are simply discussing methods of mass communication, bring on so much more - society will certainly find a use for it. When it comes to having dependable quality information, to draw on from the soon to be past, in which we will determine answers for the future ... how will the current 'history' be assured?
i do like Skype. e-Bay screwed up with it. I see Skype as becoming a major player in real-time economy. They are increasingly viable alternative to telecoms
video remains hugley problematic til we get to grips with Net neutrality and the ability of ISPs to offer different classes of service. YouTube is often painful to use - -and that's one-way video
With 65% of Skype now owned by the new investment group with Mark Andreeson in the mix (with his involvement with social media) it could get interesting
braveheart - perhaps. But we've been hearing that video has been coming for years. Skype is good, but video still requires camera. Will never fully replace voice or text
Speaking of video, what do you think of tools like seesmic video? Does video microblogging, so-to-speak, have any real purpose or chance of catching on?
I saw Google's Wave and saw that as a powerful blend of several "old" methods of communication well alloyed to provide a value greater than the sum of the parts.
video is still very hard to do on the Internet. Real-time video will takes years to develop. Still really hard for example to have a four way live video call.
Nicole -- Facebook is trying to become like Twitter (ie: real-time conversation). Struggling, however. I think Facebook will wither away eventually. It's not the big player it thinks/hopes it is.
do you think the true shapers of the future of the Internet share those same opinions (Plato Hobbes, et al?) Should they be reading Marx and Machiavelli along with Sun Tzu on the Art of War?
@andrewkeen Agree on twitter front - particularly as they are deleting archives off the back-end. I'd been using twitter as one aspect of my historical online stream, and the early days no longer exist.
@whoman great point - 15 years ago, and 2 employers ago, we talked about having all of the content you'd ever create or want to access in the palm of your hand. When storage is infinite, finding those needles in the haystack is a significant problem. Findability, not search.
As storage becomes virtually free and near infinte retaining digital content won't be the problem searching for and finding it will be the harder problem
well, consider - once commited to paper - the author may die at his typewriter, but the record will live on ... how long can we depend on digital media
If you rely on web based news from newspapers, and magazines why do you feel the internet will cannot provide the content that traditional newspapers provide?
Yes but there is discussion for two years about what Web 3.0 will be etc. There will eventually be agreed upon definitions and that is useful in making conversations/debates more efficient, enhancing communication.
So true, it is a 'made up concept' for somewhat nebulous marketing purposes - but how long before 2.0 becomes dated, and then what? Why not simply consider that this is evolutionary - in other words - why quibble over 2.0 versus 1.26748?
KimSolez - reminds some people of the old B2B and B2C market-speak days. But it does make sense to organize groups of related programs into a bucket identifier
i publish my own stuff and sell it on my own. WEB 2.0 is where I practice my writing. I guess he just said what I do is similar to what he does, but he has real publishers.
a friend of mine, an historian, is concerned that - in history, so much depends on finding letters and written records, is something that is handled so very differently in todays digital world ... how long will these records last, where will they be stored, how dependable is that storage?
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