29 May 2004 | Uncompleted
Challenge of Universal Productivity in a Knowledge Society
Omnipresence of the Semantic Web
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Every one with a website -- semantically interconnected
Billions of websites
- hyperlinkinging to many other sites
- articulating substantiated new views of relaity
- critiquing perspectives of oher sites
- articulating unsubstantiated views of reality
- weblogs
- cemetries: memorials to the dead
- transmitting unread signals / messages
- pets
- active worls
- chat rooms
- interactive games
- interactive democracy
Of the billions
- some highly attractive / useful / new / popular / fashionable
- some rarely visited
- some accessible only to closed groups
- some clustered
- by resource pages / menus
- by semantic web
- by web rings
Interventions of
- advertisers
- intelligence agencies
- marketeers
- market researchers
- opinion surveyors
- focus groups
- profiteers
- researchers
- explorers / adventurers
- censorious
- promoters
- educators / learners, students
- charters / portrayers
- educators
- "certified quality content" / "registered"
- search engines / intelligent agents
- death threaters
- pornographers
- purveyors of horror
- home video cam
- office video cam
Groupings
- associative
- religious
- thinkers
- activists
- value focused
- issued focused
- support focused
- crime rings
- use groups
- celebratory / commemorative
Information organizaed
Styles
- palatial
- suburban
- apartment
- shack
- cottage
- hermitage, etc
- monastery
- ashram
Projection
- promoted prominence
- discrete, inaccessible palatial
- remote, inaccessible
- closed for qualified / members: gated communities
Replicating metaphors
- exclusivity
- wealth
- etc
Consequences
- processing capacity
- overload
- underuse
- selectivity >> speciation
- organization
- regulation
- poltical correctness
- same as telephone system?
- attention as a vital resource
Astronomical analogues
- black hole / pulsars
- expanding universe
- hyperlinking the stars
- lifecycle of stars
References
Information Overload and Inforation Underuse
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