It's on!!

Rather than agreeing and disagreeing on the article, I've found it informative. So it's hard to point out ideas which work for me or not.

The idea of having every document to be linked to each other reminds me of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and the book that knew everything about everything. It feels very powerful even thinking about having a guide like that and wondering in foreign spaces (not places, spaces!) However, I'm not sure how this can save the world from stupidity. As information gets accessible to people, they'll be willing to give less effort looking for it, because it's already there, "I can get it whenever I need it!" Knowing that information is already present in a very easily accessible network may work good on stupidity but it will also make it a lot harder to be (or look) smarter. Is it only me or isn't it scary to think about everybody know about everything? - ok, I'm getting confused, let's jump to something else.

But I can not agree more with Kevin Kelly in not being able to
see what the web has become. "Any hope of discerning the state of the Web in 2015 requires that we own up to how wrong we were 10 years ago." got me thinking of what we might be doing right now. Thinking about ten years later is not as hard as thining what we are doing wrong right now. I have a guess though: People will get so sick and tired of dating site or self-representative sites (like myspace, facebook, xuqa and etc.), they will look for something maybe less entertaining but more interesting/smart: an interaction that is not based on interpersonal relationship, but more on “informational” relationship. About ten years ago, when I was a younger loser, I was subscribed on almost every chatting website. I was so all over the place, I became a tester for a couple of Turkish dating websites. Right now, I spend most of my time either on Wikipedia, Yahoo or Eksisozluk.org , kind of a Turkish urban dictionary but the entries are done by users.

This shift has already begun; by blogging. I do agree a lot with Kelly on everything he says on blogging and it is amazing to see how valuable it is to share certain experiences. Usually I read a couple of blogs before I go out and try a new restaurant, I never read magazines or rely on their websites. True experience can only be present in a true user’s blog, who is not seeking an economic outcome of what s/he is writing.

“The human brain has about 100 times that number - but brains are not doubling in size every few years. The Machine is.” What if we compare how complex they get every year? The Machine is created by people, it’s easy to predict where it is going, but the brain is still carrying so much mystery, it’s hard to guess the upcoming 5 minutes of it.



Oh, by the way, it was hilarious to see where baloney Cliff Still was!
Thinking about everything being linked to each other, here is a sweet site on data visualization:
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/