Evolution of Information

May 31st, 2010 by zen

This is good. Perfect for non-geeks who nevertheless need to know the ripple effects of coming down the pike:

The History of Information, by David Siegel from dsiegel on Vimeo.

Hat tip to Dave Davison.

Posted in 21st century, academia, analytic, connectivity, culture, ideas, intellectuals, revolution, science, social science, society, soft power, tech, theory, web 2.0 | 5 comments

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  1. Joseph Fouche:

    May 31st, 2010 at 6:20 am

    Having actually gone through and learned several "Semantic Web" technologies like RDF, Dublic Core, RDFa, and even microformats, I agree with this Cory Doctorow article:

    http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm

  2. zen:

    May 31st, 2010 at 1:59 pm

    "2.2 People are lazy"
    .
    Certainly will not bet against that, LOL!

  3. Tim Stevens:

    May 31st, 2010 at 7:11 pm

    Surely, David Siegel’s promo video for his own book falls foul of several of Doctorow’s "insurmountable obstacles"? Nerd hubris, indeed.

    Best of many quotes from Doctorow’s piece: "Requiring everyone to use the same vocabulary to describe their material denudes the cognitive landscape, enforces homogeneity in ideas." Exactly.

  4. Bookmarks for Monday « The Committee of Public Safety:

    May 31st, 2010 at 9:22 pm

    […] links to David Siegel’s explanation of why the Semantic Web is your future. Cory Doctorow explains […]

  5. zen:

    May 31st, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    Live by the Geek, die by the Geek 🙂