Kingsley Idehen's Blog Data Space

Ted Nelson's Perspective on Technology Lock-in

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:50:41 GMT

Ted Nelson expresses technology lock-in dislike. This applies to Operating System, Programming Language, Database, or any other forms.

Amen!

Video: Tribute to Innovation (featuring: Doug Engelbart)

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:08:55 GMT

A really nice video tribute to Doug Engelbart and the fundamental challenges of seeing way ahead of your time (aka. Prescience) :-)

The Semantic Web is only the beginning...

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:44:31 GMT

While perusing Stephan Decker's home page (following the discovery of this post titled: Database Community and the Semantic Web ) I came across a nice and ultimately semantically loaded statement containing a lot of important connectors:

The Semantic Web is only the beginning and an enabling technology for realizing the dreams of Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart and Tim Berners-Lee: My current and future objective is the creation and wide dissemination of the next generation collaboration and augmentation infrastructure - the Social Semantic Desktop.

To ensure the loop is closed I have deliberately added the following references to this post: Vannevar Bush wrote the seminal article; "As We May Think" in which he describes a theoretical analog computer called: "The Memex" - a World Wide Web precursor. This document was also a source of inspiration for Ted Nelson (discussed briefly in an earlier post re. compatibility of his his vision and those of Tim Berners-Lee).