January 2009
45 posts
‘Currently the internet is about as smart as a human brain, in the next 25 years it will be as smart as 6 million human brains’ Kevin Kelly
RT @silverton Kevin Kelly: The Next 5,000 Days of the Web (20 minute video) http://tr.im/dgg9
Tumblr users check out Zemanta’s blogging assistant (FF plugin) http://tr.im/dgfy via @SassyMaven (updated release fixes bug)
One more wild hair: Web 5.0 might look like bio/nano artificially cognitive applications.
So if (big if) web 4.0 were to be “living things” how does that affect today’s semantic applications? (Developers feel free to chime in)
Avatar Power
KRS put his avatar on his moo business cards. Genius.
RT @joshcp haiku “normalization, think of the snowflake schema, database query.”
2009: Redefining “cashless” society.
Question: If Web 1.0 was connectivity, web 2.0 is social networking, & web 3.0 is semantic automation of user/content, what is web 4.0?
RT @silverton 4.0 candidate: monetization platforms 4 collective cognition, impromptu progrmming/scrptng, cre8v participation, conversation.
“We know people’s file sizes are getting bigger. They want to share their files, keep them in the cloud, and not worry about which computer they’re on. Google wants to be solving these problems.”
—Inside Google’s Gmail: What’s next? | Webware - CNET (via fakestef)
Flying Car Prepares for Test Drive →
foxnews.com
One step closer to those mythical flying cars?
French blog CodexPerience sources http://whuffie.tumblr.com. Merci! http://tr.im/36on
Post-Apocalyptic/Future Visions →
washingtonpost.com
“We imagine the future in places other than the movie theater, of course. Still, these two familiar franchises underscore the conflicting stories we tell ourselves in uncertain times about what lies ahead: Either we’re bound for a techno-utopia of adventure, or a grim, Orwellian dystopia where humanity is on the brink of implosion.”
Does your washing machine use Twitter? This one does. - SlashGear →
slashgear.com
What can be more geeky than having your washing machine actually TWITTER its status?!
Soon all appliances will talk to us.
“Crappy economies are often the home of wonderful Bohemias”
—Cory Doctorow (via feastingonroadkill)
Satellite TV in your car launching http://tr.im/2yu1
Tech Tumblelogs
I’d like to follow more tech-oriented tumblelogs, but I don’t know where to start. Can any of my followers reblog this with their recommendations? Regular updates are a bonus, but not a requirement.
Thanks!
Old Sci-Fi Robotic Laws Could Cause The End Of the World
Asimov’s robot develops what he calls the Zeroth Law of Robotics, which states that: “A robot may not injure humanity, nor, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm”.
The significance of the Zeroth Law is that it outweighs and supersedes all other Laws of Robotics: if a robot finds himself in a situation whereby he must murder one or more humans (a direct violation of the First Law of Robotics) in order to protect all of humanity (and preserve the Zeroth Law), then the robot’s positronic programming will require him to commit murder for humanity’s sake. Only highly advanced robots can comprehend this law.
Don’t tell Fake John Connor.
