How I’d like the web to work
July 24, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Enjoyed a good chat with Niall Larkin and Bohoe at Open Coffee Dublin today. Whilst attempting to pry some information out of Mr L about his super secret patented project, we got on to talking about semantic web.
Semantic web is one interpretation of the future of the web based around how information is catalogued. It’s an orderly system of organising reams of information. You can read more about it here – in an interview with John Breslin of DERI.
My critique of semantic web is that it will remove the randomness that I know and love from the web. Just because I have shown myself in the past to be interested in dance music, doesn’t mean that I want to be presented only with dance music online forever. I may grow old and change my tastes to opera or something.
I want my web to continue to present me with randomness. Niall refers to what I want as semiotic web.
What would be really cool I think is to have a future where we can switch on and off our preferences for the kind of web we want at a particular time. So if I’m online and looking around for myself, I’ll go for semiotic web. But I’m on the hunt for info on a theme for a client, I’ll go for semantic web.
What do you think?
Comments (3 responses)
Or one better. The web is sensitive to your moods and adjusts accordingly just like another human being would?
A super intelligent web, scary stuff Niall. Ya know www is supposed to represent 666 and the Interweb is said to be the coming of the Antichrist. Antichrist is so cold, I prefer HAL
If the web were sensitive to my moods, it would look a lot like it did in the early days – some days lots of flashing bright lights… other days just plain old text on a white background!
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