Notes on Trends Shaping the Web and Society

Written on December 3rd, 2009 by syamant

Venessa Miemis wrote an interesting and thought provoking post on the 3 Key Trends Shaping the Web and Society

Some points that came to mind on reading her post.

1. Social Networks and platforms and their requisite responsibility toward their participants. As these services move to becoming platforms, individual rights and protection will perhaps need greater definition.

2. The transition from the “I” to the “We” is critical if collective intelligence and collaboration have a role in the development of expertise and ability.

3. The complexity of Social networks etc will likely result in contributions of individuals being available all across the digital domain. How will an individual manage a cohesive expert identity.

4. Will complexity create individuals who are able to manage this or will there be genuine experts. Managing complexity implies the ability to manage technology and keep up with change.

5. What does it mean in the context of history. Will the fragmentation result in a fragmented sense of history too?

6. Is there an implication in terms of have and have nots for people who are differently abled from all the skill sets defined in your post and in this comment.

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Future Gazing statements

Written on October 4th, 2009 by syamant

“There is no practical obstacle whatever now to the creation of an efficient index to all human knowledge, ideas and achievements, to the creation, that is, of a complete planetary memory for all mankind…the whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. And what is also of very great importance in this uncertain world where destruction becomes continually more frequent and unpredictable, is this, that…it need not be concentrated in any single one place.” – HG Wells talking about the Microfilm

It could be said today as well after so many years since this quote. It is always interesting to revisit Future gazing statements of the past and contemplate.

In the current context, there is always the issue of standards, competing formats, devices and in the case of DVD even regions and languages to grapple with. In a sense, information access is still a story of have and have nots. I wonder what would Mr Wells think now if he were to revisit his statement..

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