five page article by Kevin Kelly in Wired<br>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?tw=wn_tophead_1">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?tw=wn_tophead_1</a><br>
the first 3 pages were good but not new to me but luckily I kept clicking to pages 4 and 5<br>
they sizzle and other superlatives<br>
read the section with the heading 2015, starting on page 4<br>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?pg=4&topic=tech&topic_set=">http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?pg=4&topic=tech&topic_set=</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">tinyurl:</span><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/at6rq">http://tinyurl.com/at6rq</a></b><br>
he argues convincingly that the web is becoming intelligent<br>
here is one paragraph to give you the flavour:<br>
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And who will write the software that makes this contraption useful and
productive? We will. In fact, we're already doing it, each of us, every
day. When we post and then tag pictures on the community photo album
Flickr, we are teaching the Machine to give names to images. The
thickening links between caption and picture form a neural net that can
learn. Think of the 100 billion times <em>per day</em> humans click on
a Web page as a way of teaching the Machine what we think is important.
Each time we forge a link between words, we teach it an idea. Wikipedia
encourages its citizen authors to link each fact in an article to a
reference citation. Over time, a Wikipedia article becomes totally
underlined in blue as ideas are cross-referenced. That massive
cross-referencing is how brains think and remember. It is how neural
nets answer questions. It is how our global skin of neurons will adapt
autonomously and acquire a higher level of knowledge.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Bill Kerr<br><a href="http://billkerr.blogspot.com/">http://billkerr.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm">http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm</a>