A speech about WEB 2.0 presenting a metaphor for complete breakdown and transition of global systems.
Pass the duct tape and hold that turtle still.
Pass the duct tape and hold that turtle still.
We've got a web built on top of a collapsed economy. THAT's the black hole at the center of the solar system now. There's gonna be a Transition Web. Your economic system collapses: Eastern Europe, Russia, the Transition Economy, that bracing experience is for everybody now. Except it's not Communism transitioning toward capitalism. It's the whole world into transition toward something we don't even have proper words for.By Bruce Sterling
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Bruce released a new novel in the past few weeks. The description sounded like a return to the Schismatrix trope of two competing philosophies. I plan on picking it up.
I've been really jazzed about concepts like the semantic web and RDF, which is essentially enabled by XML, which in turn is the life-blood of standards based web design and other file-formats. The Hampshire LUG has a decent primer posted about the semantic web. (Link)
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