# Irritation (micropost)
Personal @ 08 July 2008
I haven’t been posting much lately, and its partly due to figuring out how to write something in a certain way (aka linguistic overload) and partly because I am really really irritated at Technology! I get so annoyed that I can’t look at some information in a certain way, and so annoyed that I can’t express something in my terminology and then have my laptop rearrange it into a way which is good for everybody. I suspect that there will be a way of solving this someday, probably involving Linked Data or the cool but wacky idea of Universal Network Language (likened to Esperanto but for Networks by Tom Morris). I get these irritations quite a lot, especially over the past year and a half… I keep thinking “well, maybe its a good sign”.
July 11th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I am fascinated by the idea of an improved and evolving web. I know that certain tools are emerging that dynamically change the weight of connections (much as a neuron might), and that includes triggering thresholds from activity by other nodes (or I might as well say neurons, since I am hoping that this sort of model will emerge).
My own expectation, or hope at least, is that a combination of increasing bandwidth, more direct and natural interfacing (including perhaps purely local biometric monitoring) would allow selection of pathways through a more and more “real” associative environment. I suppose what I am looking towards is a projection of a virtual brain in which each of us can participate as we will. (I probably have read Hesse’s Steppenwolf and Magister Ludi one too many times, and want an ultimate magic-theatre/glass-bead game.) But really is that not the direction it is all headed, higher levels of integration and natural interfacing with richer fields of interaction between participants. It is still very much pie-in-the-sky, but then who would have imagined the web 50 years ago, and Moore’s law keeps shrinking. The question is when will the next “breakthrough” occur, one that kicks things upstairs to the next level. It may emerge almost without design as complementary processes synthetically weave to bring about an organic interconnectivity. We shall see. We live in amazing times.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Hey, nice comment, thank you.
We do indeed live in amazing times… and I am sure some of the most intriguing things are still to come.