You see it goes like this...we all want all available data available now. We want the world's information at the blink of an eye. The smartphones and the pocket devices won't cut it - too slow, too much hassle. Desktop machines are a joke - too tied to their desktops. No what we need is a new sense, a "Google Sense". So getting the information we want is as natural as seeing or hearing. You will just conceive question, not frame it, and the data will be there. That's the natural progression for the information revolution. No wires, no devices, just a new sense.
Think about it.
Society will change, "Who wants to be a millionaire" will be pointless, Trivial Pursuits even more so. No point saying "did you hear about...", "did you see",... everyone will know everything (well everything that is publicly available or hackable). Everyone will know everything you know (less anything you can keep private, though that will be less and less). You'll know the ending to new movies! You'll know about the person sitting opposite you on the bus without speaking to them. Have a look around you now - what would you know about it all if you had all the Internet streaming into your conscience informing you about it all?
So if we all know everything, where does understanding come in? Is knowledge understanding? Does knowing everything mean new discoveries can be made by combining disparate knowledge bases? I think so.
Now think what would happen if this gift was given to just one person. What could they achieve? Would they go mad with power, start a religion, solve the worlds problems, what?
There's a novel there (and maybe a future)
Just a thought...;)
posted @ Wednesday, February 08, 2006 12:04 AM