Having access to information and actually having assimilated it are two entirely different things.
Indeed, this is what I was talking about with the Cyc project, just having the information isn’t enough, it needs to be integrated, to have meaning.
Still, it seems many of my pub conversations are already changing with wireless mobile internet access as what would have been a large discussion about whether or not something was real, or what it did, or when it was, can be quickly checked by a source both people would agree is better than anyone physically present.
Which also points to ways conversation in general changes. Just coz you aren’t there, doesn’t mean you can’t be consulted immediately. In Farscape, the characters would be conversing with each other even when remote, without having to have an obvious comms device or think to turn it on or all. Just shout at ’em and they hear, wherever they are, whatever they’re doing.
You’re talking to some resurrected dude about his grandson, and suddenly grandson is there in the conversation saying hello from the beach where he’s lazing with a cocktail.
I always thought that looked fun, but given the rants I get from people wondering why I’d bother to log into a website to show ’em pictures of a beach holiday while I “should be off having fun” perhaps there’d be social pressure to keep conversation local.
Dunno. Look forward to finding out how it’ll all pan out anyway :)
Indeed, this is what I was talking about with the Cyc project, just having the information isn’t enough, it needs to be integrated, to have meaning.
Still, it seems many of my pub conversations are already changing with wireless mobile internet access as what would have been a large discussion about whether or not something was real, or what it did, or when it was, can be quickly checked by a source both people would agree is better than anyone physically present.
Which also points to ways conversation in general changes. Just coz you aren’t there, doesn’t mean you can’t be consulted immediately. In Farscape, the characters would be conversing with each other even when remote, without having to have an obvious comms device or think to turn it on or all. Just shout at ’em and they hear, wherever they are, whatever they’re doing.
You’re talking to some resurrected dude about his grandson, and suddenly grandson is there in the conversation saying hello from the beach where he’s lazing with a cocktail.
I always thought that looked fun, but given the rants I get from people wondering why I’d bother to log into a website to show ’em pictures of a beach holiday while I “should be off having fun” perhaps there’d be social pressure to keep conversation local.
Dunno. Look forward to finding out how it’ll all pan out anyway :)