[Yr7-10it] we are the web

[Bill Kerr]

five page article by Kevin Kelly in Wired
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
the first 3 pages were good but not new to me but luckily I kept clicking to 
pages 4 and 5
they sizzle and other superlatives
read the section with the heading 2015, starting on page 4
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html?pg=4&topic=tech&topic_set=
*tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/at6rq*
he argues convincingly that the web is becoming intelligent
here is one paragraph to give you the flavour:

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 *per day* 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.


-- 
Bill Kerr
http://billkerr.blogspot.com/
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm
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