Remembering the Future

So rather than gleefully celebrating the removal of "physical constraints" on the web we ought to be searching for ways to better translate those same physical constraints (whose only fault is that they are old but have actually proved quite useful in many previous ventures including the construction of civilization) to the web. Better ways for users to add and organize data into meaningful information, easier systems for users to organize themselves into groups and communities, faster algorithms for exploiting the tremendous structural knowledge contained in this vast new place -- ultimately we need to give users the tools to build their own structures and carve out their own spaces on the web and then finding way to bridge all of these new structures together. It's more hierarchies and more categories created by users for users that the web needs, not less.

Topics: structure | information

Labels: Information, structure

A new finding has discovered that the human genome may be highly networked. That is, genes do not operate in isolation, but rather they are networked together in a far more complex ecosystem than previously thought. It may be impossible to separate one gene from another in fact. This throws into question not only our understanding of genetics and the human genome, but also the whole genomics industry, which relies heavily on the idea that genes and drugs based on them can be patented

Topics: Information | Genetic

Labels: Genetic, Information