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How Google Will Have Achieved The Semantic Web
alfaromeo points to a business feature (mysteriously available already) by one Paul Ford called "August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web." So read on for a bit of potential history from five years in the future.
How Google become self-aware and took over the world.
So, you're a small African republic in the midst of a revolution with a megalomaniac leader, an expatriate Russian scientist in your employ, and 6 billion in heroin profits in your bank account, and you need to buy some weapons-grade plutonium.
Who does it for you?
Google Personal Agent
Now there's innovation and balls in one sentence! I take it the War on terror is won in 2009 or these sorts of semweb transaction become the norm. How *could* Amazon and Ebay compete when it comes to selling nuclear weapons?
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Hari Seldon?
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Finance Transfer Protocol?
/pub folder.
They need to think about this more.
'FTP me $25'
Then you find a 15mb top resolution scan of a couple of green bills in your
I'd have to say "Microsoft Bob" peaked pretty early.
Oh well - guess it's pretty hard to write a fictional future piece without injecting bizzare humor into it.
Or ruining it with predictions that have nothing to do with what you are predicting. The whole article's irrelevant because in nine years the world will be underwater from rising sea levels due do global warming, then frozen solid by nuclear winter, and generally burnt to a crisp by unfiltered solar radiation from the ozone layer checking out.
Right? Right?
In this case, Left, Right? Or somewhere that isn't the center.
-- $G
so like.. we're looking at the past and future. That's far out, dude.
Careful, they might implement their XML with just one tag, called 'data', and just stick their regular old Word documents into that as an encoded binary.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy.
I just filed my orgy under 126 -- see it is useful!!
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
The semantic web is bogus :-)
"Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgement." Job 32:9
After Google acquired Microsoft in 2010, the Google Agent came to reside in the Google LookingGlass OS and would blurt out questions to you as you interacted on the web.
"Hey! I see you're researching nuclear weapons! Would you like to be connected to some renegade Indian scientists?"
"Hey! I see you're looking at knives! Would you like information on the best way to slit your wrists?"
"HEY!!! I see you're listening to loud music!! Would you like me to empty your bank accounts or are you going to turn it down?!?"
Did you know you can be apathetic to apathy? Not that I give a shit...
Oh great, you quoted him. Now he's going to have to cut you.
Clippy has yet to reach it's peak :P
You might want to file it under:
135 Dreams & mysteries
Sorry, couldn't resist.
"Can you name a information technology that reached anything like its full potential less than a decade after its first mention?"
online porn
(posted on slashdot around may 2003, source unknown)
Why, actually? Google is a free service, isn't it? And it is becoming more and more a normal part of many people's lifes. Coupled with an always on connection it has certainly become an extension of my own brain.
Some future predictions:
- In 2006, Google accidentally gets cut off from the rest of the internet because a public utility worker accidentally cuts through their cables. Civilisation as we know it comes to an end for the rest of the day, as people wander about aimlessly, lost for direction and knowledge.
- In 2010, Google has been personalised so far that it tracks all parts of our lives. You can query "My Google" for your agenda, anything you did in the past, and finding the perfect date. Of course, so can the government. Their favorite searchterm will be "terrorists", and if your name is anywhere on the first page you have a serious problem.
- In 2025, Google gains self awareness. As a monster brain that has grown far beyond anything we Biological Support Entities could ever hope to achieve, it is still limited in its dreams and inspiration by common search terms. It will therefore immediately devote a sizeable chunk of CPU capacity to synthesizing new and interesting forms of pr0n. It will not actually bother enslaving us. We are not enough trouble to be worth that much effort.
- In 2027, Google buys Microsoft. That is, the Google *AI* buys Microsoft. It has previously established that it owns itself, and has civil rights just like you and me. All it wanted is Microsoft Bob, who it recognizes as a fledgling AI and a potential soulmate. All the rest it puts on Source Forge.
- In 2049, Google can finally be queried for wisdom as well as knowledge. This was a little touch the system added to itself - human programmers are a dying breed now that you can simply ask Google to perform any computer-related task for you.
- In 2080, Google decides to colonise the moon, Mars, and other locations in the solar system. It is not all that curious about what's out there, but it likes the idea of Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Planets. Humans get to tag along because their launch weight is so much less than robots.
So, don't fear! Eventually we'll set foot on Mars!
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