10:06PM
Can I Get A Witness?
My Future-Sense antennae twitch like mad at the very notion that at some point in the future, there may be sufficient numbers of bloggers each blogging at sufficiently high levels of detail and frequency to make it worthwhile for someone to build an indexing engine that would collate the millions of individual personal accounts of events - initially these accounts would likely be restricted to 30,000 feet views of world events but with increasing resolution, this could ultimately drill-down to local events and eventually right down to inter-personal and personal events.
For example today, the BBC site has an On This Day in history page where it invites witnesses to add personal perspectives on world events to embellish its factual news reports.
Once a total personal index is achieved, the trick would then be to collate and map all the linked events and relationships backwards and sideways to build a global meta-construct that would eventually enable us to decode chaos into some form of logical sense and understanding.
That would be cool.
For example today, the BBC site has an On This Day in history page where it invites witnesses to add personal perspectives on world events to embellish its factual news reports.
Once a total personal index is achieved, the trick would then be to collate and map all the linked events and relationships backwards and sideways to build a global meta-construct that would eventually enable us to decode chaos into some form of logical sense and understanding.
That would be cool.
Reader Comments (6)
That’s all? Crikeys, I have that running in my basement on an old Mac Plus. Come up with something ambitious, Gary!
Sorry, AKMA. Really, I am.
I suppose this is like the Chinese Space Programme where after years of communist censorship blocking western news, someone has yet to tell them the story about Neil Armstrong and Co.
Relax chaps, I'm on it.
AKMA, crikey is singular.
Gary, at least the Chinese are still doing something. I promised Rosie a 25th Wedding anniversary on the Moon, and it is looking tricky.
Maybe this is the way it happens. The Chinese are going to become the bucket-shop, low-cost airline equivalents to space travel. Think about it, they already invented noodles which can be effortlessly transported over long distances in a dehydrated form.
They are cleverer than you think.
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