2009/8/24 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
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You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in constant streaming twitter mode all the time. There won't be "articles" per se, and you won't get input from a single page, you'll get continuous input from a million sources simultaneously in twitt-bits.
<look of abject horror>
I wouldn't be so horrified if that didn't sound so plausible.
Is it too late to try the 'Culture' route? (Iain M. Banks)
Carcharoth
That would be where they had several billion people vote on if cable cars should be installed in an area that was meant to be a wasteland.
Preservationeers vs Pylonists was painfully familiar.
In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this direction.