Sure, but, can we envisage an internet experience that is more personal?
Eventually, the internet may be aware of the subtleties of our browsing habits.
Sorry, if i joined this thread late, but has anyone mentioned the interesting
article from Scientific American "Semantic Web?" It's a discussion of the
future of web-searching wherein more advanced searches "know" what we mean when
we are searching for something.
http://www.sciam.com/2001/0501issue/0501berners-lee.html
Buzz
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> J. R. Molloy wrote,
> > Google.com leads the way to a more complete assimilation of Net knowledge,
> > thus becoming the proto-cortex of Metaman, the transhuman
> > superorganism. --J.R.
>
> You are confusing the medium with the message. All those nifty webpages and
> postings you reference are being created by humans for humans. The fact
> that you go through Google to access them doesn't mean that Google is
> processing this knowledge.
>
> Next, you'll be telling me that your TV knows what is happening around the
> world, that your CD player is a great musician, or that your phone does a
> great impersonation of your friends. You don't think that the card catalog
> at your local library has read all those books, do you?
>
> These are transmission devices and puppets only. They have nothing to do
> with the knowledge being transferred through them.
>
> --
> Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> <http://Newstaff.com>
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