The next panel is Buzz with John.
Buzz tells the story about how he created Activewords. Discusses his trip to Russia, sending dispatches back to the US, and becoming ‘a rock star’ – ie. everyone knew who he was because people forwarded his emails.
Buzz mentions Anagram – a great plug-in for outlook!
He also talked about, and did his presentation in Mind Manager– also a great and useful piece of software for brainstorming and thoughts management.
Jamis discusses The concept that a constant stream of images, videos, etc will contribute to not the big-brother society but a society of millions of little brothers.
Camera phones, small video cameras, etc.
Irony break – Picture of Jamais taken as he was saying this at Flickr.
One implication – telemedicine – dermatologists could tell diagnosis of skin issues 94% of time via camera phone shots vs. in person. Politics – video groups captured images of problems in voting during Nov 2004 election. New group – the Blair Watch Project at the Guardian UK. Every politician now has to assume that they are on camera at all times – including when there are no actual ‘cameras’ present. Sousveillance – all of us watching the watchers. Similar – the Witness project. Abu Garib was the digital camera’s “Rodney King” moment – see, snap, send…media event. To quote Jamis almost verbatim: “Anyone anywhere with a digital camera and a net connection can alter course of a war or shape the policy of the largest country in the World.”
Deja View- Tivo for life- 30 second back storage of everything you see, in a camera.
Company predicting 10 Petabytes of memory drives by 2010. Put it all together…
What happens with Digital rights copyright and digital rights management when you can tape everything you see? Will they make your ‘memory archive’ not be able to record when you see copyright? Will there be lawsuits for ‘memory rights management’ litigating what you can ‘record and remember’?
Personal memory assistance + tools for social networks = ability for friends to know what you’ve seen and done … ‘was it that restaurant that had the bug’? ‘is he the creep my sister dumped for cheating?’
Noshir starts by referencing the LoveGety from Japan – technology and motivation for networking with others.
LoveGety lets you put in a profile and when you’re near someone with similar profile, your lovegety beeps and you find your e-soulmate.
Four types of knowledge networks
Cyberinfrastructures – large scale networks to serve science, humanities and arts– allow someone to access data, tools and analytics anywhere and save them – basically running and keeping data in the grid – with cycles being used from the network. Ex – Fusion Grid – Astronomical grids. The grids play important role to connect and analyze data, ex: CLEANER, you have multiple types of nodes and multiple relationships. Need to know who is doing data, value of data, relationships. So, concept of multidimensional network.
Hey! He’s thinking about how local emergency responders can use networks to get direct info relevant and targeted to their role in an emergency.
Now talking about Cognitive Knowledge Networks – you may be thinking about your intranet – “ if I just put your stuff on the web site, people won’t bother me as much” – but in fact you end up bothered more – because people know that you know about the subject, and you know people who know about the subject. You know who knows what (ie. I know about what I posted), you also get the feeling “I’m willing to share” and people will bother you.
Great slide on why Actors create, maintain, dissolve, and reconsititue network links.
The weightless economy – goods and economic value when up, but weight of goods shipped stayed almost constant. So much of what is made weighs nothing, including information. Cuneiform documents from Sumaria still exist thousands of years later – agreed upon standard of communication with an interface – ie carvings in stone. The Internet is also a set of standards of communications we’ve all agreed upon, and the data, like HTML and XML, are also in the same way standards we agree upon and can read through an interface. Ross notes the ‘global brain’ concept.
Ross’ book Living Networks and his Living Networks Blog.
Talks about the 3 princes of Serendip – origin of Serendipity –
Talking about Collaboration – daypop, technorati, etc. LastFm – collaborative playlists based on your taste in music.
Reputation networks – social networks will evolve into being able to share reputations and understand value of sharing information with others.
Tansparency in workflow from shop floor to main company (like Xbox– 90 companies – microsoft knows where things are at any time via networks.
We’re about to work on the Wiki for Ross’ talk.