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Disruptive Web Emergence Of Symbiotic Intelligence
y now you are already much familiar with the concept The Internet boom was followed by disruptive innovation that a financial bust for hundreds of is going on all around you. If companies but it created a you have not noticed it yet, I pervasive technology that would like to mention the intertwined with everything we do ubiquitous iPod as an example. today. It pushed us into the true Sony’s reign on portable music information society. We are happy player that started with the to use the Web to check our Walkman, an disruptive innovation e-mail and weather before going by itself, was disrupted by a to the office, do our banking series of new technologies in the during the lunch break, buy that form of CD players, mp3 players dream vacation package for a and then the iPod. bargain price from an online retailer before heading home in Though the forces of disruption the evening, and occasionally introduced by new ideas and chat with our college room mates concepts have overturned existing using instant messaging after the market places and people’s lives dinner. We have started replacing in the past several centuries, in more and more of existing the last decade a storm was technologies that we have used in introduced in the form of World the past by this all encompassing Wide Web. It put its strong Net. foothold on every aspect of modern lives - business, finance, Virtual communities and social sales, marketing, shopping, networking sites emerged in early communication, relationships, and 2000 (though instances of even crimes. The Web was the most rudimentary social networking disruptive innovation in the sites can be traced back to the history of human civilization. early days of the Web) and the
popularity of MySpace proved that interests, and even life we are trying to establish a partners. symbiotic relationship with the Web. This relationship is not For the last 200 years, the with the computer that we use Industrial Revolution has everyday in our works and provided us the impetus to personal lives. It can be any replace manual labor with device that lets us connect to machines that do things faster this ethereal system that is all and cheaper. The Industrial around us. We don't see it, we Revolution brought societal, don't feel it but we need it. cultural and economic changes in human lives. Ordinary persons We have started using these new freed themselves from the breed of sites to establish far drudgery of manual labor for reaching connections that would enjoying personal lives. not have been possible in human history before. We contribute to The Web has brought us the this ever expanding network Information Revolution. For the because we believe in the saying, first time, one is able to free "I will share my knowledge in herself from the drudgery of many return for helpful information personal chores (e.g. shopping) from others". We trade ideas when using the Web. The freed time is buying a digital computer or spent on getting connected, visiting a health specialists and collaborating, and developing use the collective information network for sharing information and knowledge to drive our and knowledge. Now, she is able actions. Social connections that to make decisions using the we establish using these sites collective intelligence that was help us find jobs, business not available before. For partners, friends with mutual example, she is able to order her
party supplies from reliable of actions. suppliers found in her favorite social bookmarking site, organize The Web itself is a disruptive her party and invite guests using event in the human history. Each social a networking site, send phases of the Web (are we in Web personalized driving directions 2.0 phase?) is a natural for each guest using a mash-up progression of that disruption. site that uses vCard and road What we have witnessed so far is maps, buy that camera, for party information stored all over the pictures, recommended by her globe in millions and millions of favorite collaborative filtering networked computers and the site. emergence of user generated contents, collaboration and We have started witnessing the social connection. emergence of some rudimentary symbiotic intelligence. People In the next phase we will see the are using collective intelligence emergence of sites that will be to their advantages. The Web will mash-ups of mash-ups, networks of provide mechanisms to mine networks, etc. These sites will information scattered over further free us from some of our databases, documents, web pages, today's daily chores. Besides pictures and videos and then being cheaper and omnipresent collaborate and connect to through held held devices, it address users' concerns. People will provide us the ability to will further free themselves from setup semi-intelligent agents the drudgery of going to that work for us. For example, specialists like financial after work a person will spend 30 planners, tax advisors, or even minutes using her handheld device physicians, for obtaining connected to a website to intelligent and reliable course configure her party organizer
agent that will order supplies, will not be void of emotions. invite guests, and purchase a There will be mechanisms to make digital camera using social book us feel good based on our moods, markings, networking and surroundings, and circumstances. collaborative filtering sites. Let's say you setup a dinner She will be harnessing the date. During the course of the collective intelligence of many dinner, you feel that every thing people to plan her party. is going all right. Based on her likings that you have just We already use many of the learned, your dating advisor technologies that are required agent may suggest a visit to a for the maturing of the symbiotic nearby petting zoo. We have intelligence. We use more already witnessed the emotional powerful cell phones with digital aspect of computing in games cameras, Internet connections, where cancer patients wage and the push technology. virtual battles against unhealthy University and corporate labs are cells. researching intelligent agent technologies. We are enjoying the We are just witnessing the falling prices of almost all emergence of symbiotic hardware and services. We utilize intelligence fueled by the virtual communities and social Information Revolution. We will networking sites, and we see intelligence evolve from the participate in creating and interaction of experts and filtering contents. non-experts and people will use it to solve their problems. The The central theme of the Web will provide mechanism to symbiotic intelligence will still harness this collective remain collaboration and intelligence to fulfill people, connection. But the intelligence communities, groups, countries
and world's needs.
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