In a message dated 8/22/2009 11:24:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bodnotbod@gmail.com writes:
I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking "everything I do with Wikipedia might be a waste of time" because I envision it collapsing, dying, being fatally attacked or somesuch.>>
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The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it. Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more years at the most :)
In twenty years, we will live inside the matrix 24-7 with constant streaming implants so there won't be an "Internet" per se, and computing power will be distributed all-wetware-all-the-time. After all any million step computation can be done one step at a time by a million neurons, you don't even have to be in a waking state. Hey that's gives me an idea!
I'd better get to work right away on building a wetware bot attack plan.
W.J.
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:52 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 8/22/2009 11:24:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bodnotbod@gmail.com writes:
I do sometimes get into the mindset of thinking "everything I do with Wikipedia might be a waste of time" because I envision it collapsing, dying, being fatally attacked or somesuch.>>
The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it. Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more years at the most :)
In twenty years, we will live inside the matrix 24-7 with constant streaming implants so there won't be an "Internet" per se, and computing power will be distributed all-wetware-all-the-time. After all any million step computation can be done one step at a time by a million neurons, you don't even have to be in a waking state. Hey that's gives me an idea!
I'd better get to work right away on building a wetware bot attack plan.
W.J.
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it. Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more years at the most :)
In twenty years, we will live inside the matrix 24-7 with constant streaming implants so there won't be an "Internet" per se, and computing power will be distributed all-wetware-all-the-time. After all any million step computation can be done one step at a time by a million neurons, you don't even have to be in a waking state. Hey that's gives me an idea!
Let's run with it though... you're going with the (I think fairly sound) idea that the digital landscape will be very different 20 years down the line... but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a part of that?
Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that give us access to all knowledge all of the time? Who's to say that that knowledge wouldn't be provided by Wikipedia?
but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a part of that?
You mean the Wikimedia foundation?
Emily On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it. Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more years at the most :)
In twenty years, we will live inside the matrix 24-7 with constant streaming implants so there won't be an "Internet" per se, and computing power will be distributed all-wetware-all-the-time. After all any million step computation can be done one step at a time by a million neurons, you don't even have to be in a waking state. Hey that's gives me an idea!
Let's run with it though... you're going with the (I think fairly sound) idea that the digital landscape will be very different 20 years down the line... but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a part of that?
Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that give us access to all knowledge all of the time? Who's to say that that knowledge wouldn't be provided by Wikipedia?
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Of course the whole reason you'd want to put a reference to Vienna into the article on Vienne is that it's a French name, and if you happen to be reading a French text using Wikipedia as a reference it might be useful for you to know that the name Vienne may sometimes refer to a foreign capital.
Could we do that in French Wikipedia? Yes, but why only French Wikipedia?
On 8/23/09, Emily Monroe bluecaliocean@me.com wrote:
but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a part of that?
You mean the Wikimedia foundation?
Emily On Aug 23, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:52 AM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
The "content" of Wikipedia, like malaria, is here to stay. It's been copied so many times by now, that nothing can eradicate it. Wikipedia itself however probably won't live more than ten more years at the most :)
In twenty years, we will live inside the matrix 24-7 with constant streaming implants so there won't be an "Internet" per se, and computing power will be distributed all-wetware-all-the-time. After all any million step computation can be done one step at a time by a million neurons, you don't even have to be in a waking state. Hey that's gives me an idea!
Let's run with it though... you're going with the (I think fairly sound) idea that the digital landscape will be very different 20 years down the line... but why do you think that Wikipedia as a non-profit wouldn't be a part of that?
Do you think it would be hopelessly superseded by brain implants that give us access to all knowledge all of the time? Who's to say that that knowledge wouldn't be provided by Wikipedia?
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