Kevin Kelly, who has a significant influence on the making of the movie "Matrix" describes the web as a brain. It's current capacity is according to him equal to one human brain. He describes the interaction as the process familiar to most of us in synapsis.
Even-though K. Kelly comes traditionally from a technological point of view of the world he can not avoid making comparisons to living phenomenon's.
The future of the internet will be driven by a more and more interaction of us with each other. K. Kelly says rightly:
"We will be totally co-dependent on it."
He calls the future of the web "THE ONE". The big ONE machine, which is the most reliable technology humans have ever made. It is like an ORGANISM. "We are the web. We are the one. The one is us."
The reason I put this idea of K. Kelly on this blog is because, if you want to predict the future of human creativity, you simply have to think in Laliaflia.
Either it is a replacement of a living thing or it's extension.
"What we really want to do at Google is create an Artificial Intelligence" says Larry Page, the co-founder of Google.
The idea of A.I. is scary to most people (maybe because it's inspired by humans ;-)), but if you look at it from the perspective of Laliaflia, you will quickly realize, that we will always remain the most reliable machines. A.I. is just an abstraction of human on the layer of inspiration: BEHAVIOR.
This is how we would re-design the web using Laliaflia:
The first LA's that we would look on are:
the brain, the sensess, and human as organism.
The LIA which is the web today:
can see, can read, can hear, can automatically link.
The FLIA of the web in the future:
can taste, can touch, can smell, can move, can talk to us and think.
THERE WILL BE NO WEB 3.0/ 4.0/ 5.0. THERE WILL ONLY BE AN ABSTRACTION OF LIFE IN DIGITAL FORMAT. :-)
If the web doesn't manage to replace us, it has to serve as a channel or a tube to connect us to others. Ones again life defines what design will be like. Not vise versa.
What if we use ubiquitous computing with a bit of Ambient Intelligence or Context-aware pervasive systems - are we then getting closer to your proposed future?
ReplyDeleteHey Thorlak,thank you for the challenging question. I replied you, but don't know what happened to the answer. Anyways, Ambient Intelligence or Context-aware pervasive systems seem to be sub-categories of A.I.. A replacement or abstraction of life depends always on the needs of the user. The state where everything becomes a Life Inspired Artefact is a "visionary guideline". In every case the more life we can attache to our design the better we are.
ReplyDeleteCheers Mate