My time at writing has led me to rethink the idea-imagination concept about how people think. I think in time, there will be tools that will enable us to draw connections between the thoughts and ideas that we hold in our minds. I think there really be some Platonic Essentialism somewhere, but not going to go there now...
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Equations as lenses
I don't really have time to do a proper examination and the entailments, but... i'll just say this for now. equations are really lenses with which we view the world! Einstein was mashing Maxwell's Equation with Newton, and out popped Relativity!
Sphere: Related ContentFriday, 24 October 2008
Ecology of Ideas
Something I've been wondering about:
I've been thinking that people aren't just interested in raw information and data, that what people really want is the meta-data, the information that sets the context for the specific piece of information. People really want to know the connections - they really want an information-rich environment/ecology. The digital personal information ecology (d-PIE) is for everyone! I am thinking of going beyond aggregators, bookmarks and bookmarklets, tags, and such. I am conceiving, i think, of a new way of looking at things, of experiences, and of course, information. I still love photosynth - and there is something emergent in the way it arranges the photos beyond the panoramic it produces, that is viscerally different from videos. Photosynth allows people to immerse themselves in the environment - likewise, with the d-PIE, i want people to be able to immerse themselves in the digital environment they have built for themselves, just as Photosynth creates a representation...
The final product I am conceiving of is something that will change the way people think. To think in terms of ideas and the connectivity between ideas, something that is dynamic and ever-changing, unlike the static conceptions of ideas that we currently have and hold in our own minds.
Of course, I can't write this software, not now, unfortunately. Technorati Tags: ecology ideas, information,
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I've been thinking that people aren't just interested in raw information and data, that what people really want is the meta-data, the information that sets the context for the specific piece of information. People really want to know the connections - they really want an information-rich environment/ecology. The digital personal information ecology (d-PIE) is for everyone! I am thinking of going beyond aggregators, bookmarks and bookmarklets, tags, and such. I am conceiving, i think, of a new way of looking at things, of experiences, and of course, information. I still love photosynth - and there is something emergent in the way it arranges the photos beyond the panoramic it produces, that is viscerally different from videos. Photosynth allows people to immerse themselves in the environment - likewise, with the d-PIE, i want people to be able to immerse themselves in the digital environment they have built for themselves, just as Photosynth creates a representation...
The final product I am conceiving of is something that will change the way people think. To think in terms of ideas and the connectivity between ideas, something that is dynamic and ever-changing, unlike the static conceptions of ideas that we currently have and hold in our own minds.
Of course, I can't write this software, not now, unfortunately. Technorati Tags: ecology ideas, information,
Friday, 10 October 2008
what thinking, about thinking
A thought came to me on the bus back to PGP.
I kinda realised that people usually just take in the assumptions from the world around, from the opinions manufactured, from the 'facts' created by others... the vast majority of people actually have no idea what their thoughts are, even though they claim to have an 'idea' about something.
Everyone has an opinion, but only a few actually know what their opinion REALLY is.
People do by and large, get by swimming in their shallow seas, not knowing that there is a vast ocean of assumptions, philosophies out there, waiting to be explored by them, to know that thrilling sense of discovery what lies out there beyond their own narrow mindsets. It really is thrilling to know your own thoughts, after a while...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
superstruct!
I am playing this online project right now, called 'Superstruct', where people blog, and share their ideas about the future based on a few nightmare scenarios. The interesting thing about this project is that it is based on how today's technologies might fully mature and become really explosive in the near future, and is in some way, an assessment of the power of present technologies in the future! I guess its really a kind of open-sourcing the future, where people can together to contribute to each other, building, modifying each other's vision of the future, and to ultimately change it.
Kinda ties into my potential minor in Society, Technology and Science. Really hope to take it someday!
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
photosynth madness!
Am sick. Sick because i made the stupid decision to go running at about 1am going around NUS ferocious uphills and downhills. Think overexerted. plus bad food. makes for a bad combination. but i know God will heal me!
been using photosynth, and its been great! people using windows vista, go download it! find my hotmail nick and see the stuff that i'm doing already! having a goal of sorts to create synths of NUS' lecture theatres and canteens for a start. its a wonderful social tool that has the potential to create new sorts of interactions between people - because i think photosynth is a rather powerful tool to get to te eye of the person - what the person is seeing himself - a new degree of immersion and experience, which i think what photosynth is also about.
meanwhile, gotta go zzz soon. if tmrw symptons persist, i'll make my first trip to UHWC.
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been using photosynth, and its been great! people using windows vista, go download it! find my hotmail nick and see the stuff that i'm doing already! having a goal of sorts to create synths of NUS' lecture theatres and canteens for a start. its a wonderful social tool that has the potential to create new sorts of interactions between people - because i think photosynth is a rather powerful tool to get to te eye of the person - what the person is seeing himself - a new degree of immersion and experience, which i think what photosynth is also about.
meanwhile, gotta go zzz soon. if tmrw symptons persist, i'll make my first trip to UHWC.
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Extrapolating the One Machine
I CAN STILL THINK! hooray!
Anyway, was on the train viewing Kevin Kelly's One Machine talk from The EG (TED's partner conference), AND THIS IS A MUST-WATCH!!!
As I was on the train, there was some stupid glitch that kept delaying departure of the train by a few minutes at some stops. It became quite irritating with the inane announcement of the delay and 'Sorry for the inconvenience caused'. Suddenly, Kevin Kelly's talk resonated with me.
He was talking about the Internet of Things, where objects of our reality become interconnected with one another - ubiquity computing not just in discrete machines, but EVERYWHERE. Everything is information, and that information is shared, edited, created, modified, and directly translatable into physical reality - hacking the rules of physics/reality, so to speak. (Another thought is rising up - how to code for reality...) Information being represented on the physical reality... Consequences are immense.
On a more mundane level, Kevin Kelly postulates the One Machine as a single organism - a living thing of information. It then occurs to me, what if entire nations ARE and SHOULD be organisms too, in the literal sense. Everything obeying simple rules causing complex phenomena - and maybe this is where society should be moving towards - Lawrence Lessig and the concept of Creative Commons, and such. If MRT has glitches, the entire network of public transport responses to this glitch, inasmuch as immune systems respond to foreign bodies and viruses! Buses are activated, ushers come, people are guided to their destinations through this network, especially if people are in a rush.
How might it work for education, information transmission? What we have essentially = effectively centralised centres of power, but decentralised process of information control. Eventually, even political power will be decentralised, the coalescing of political power around productive communities that will take most advantage of the decentralised process of information control, and as a result, more people wishing to take part in that process, and it'll be inclusive. I don't know how everything will work out, but everything will work out.
Thinking about my tagmonster! Initially, files will use titles and statistically significant phrases (that amazon uses), then, incorporating social elements - associating files with people, and associating people with tags as well, and then the graphical interface that allow people to organise by tags and people - people's tag and file associations, tag's people and file associations, and of course file's people and tag associations.
Mozilla's Aurora. Something like that. Technorati Tags: One Machine, Kevin Kelly, information, physical reality, tags, reality, augmentation, society, production, power
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Anyway, was on the train viewing Kevin Kelly's One Machine talk from The EG (TED's partner conference), AND THIS IS A MUST-WATCH!!!
As I was on the train, there was some stupid glitch that kept delaying departure of the train by a few minutes at some stops. It became quite irritating with the inane announcement of the delay and 'Sorry for the inconvenience caused'. Suddenly, Kevin Kelly's talk resonated with me.
He was talking about the Internet of Things, where objects of our reality become interconnected with one another - ubiquity computing not just in discrete machines, but EVERYWHERE. Everything is information, and that information is shared, edited, created, modified, and directly translatable into physical reality - hacking the rules of physics/reality, so to speak. (Another thought is rising up - how to code for reality...) Information being represented on the physical reality... Consequences are immense.
On a more mundane level, Kevin Kelly postulates the One Machine as a single organism - a living thing of information. It then occurs to me, what if entire nations ARE and SHOULD be organisms too, in the literal sense. Everything obeying simple rules causing complex phenomena - and maybe this is where society should be moving towards - Lawrence Lessig and the concept of Creative Commons, and such. If MRT has glitches, the entire network of public transport responses to this glitch, inasmuch as immune systems respond to foreign bodies and viruses! Buses are activated, ushers come, people are guided to their destinations through this network, especially if people are in a rush.
How might it work for education, information transmission? What we have essentially = effectively centralised centres of power, but decentralised process of information control. Eventually, even political power will be decentralised, the coalescing of political power around productive communities that will take most advantage of the decentralised process of information control, and as a result, more people wishing to take part in that process, and it'll be inclusive. I don't know how everything will work out, but everything will work out.
Thinking about my tagmonster! Initially, files will use titles and statistically significant phrases (that amazon uses), then, incorporating social elements - associating files with people, and associating people with tags as well, and then the graphical interface that allow people to organise by tags and people - people's tag and file associations, tag's people and file associations, and of course file's people and tag associations.
Mozilla's Aurora. Something like that. Technorati Tags: One Machine, Kevin Kelly, information, physical reality, tags, reality, augmentation, society, production, power
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