Consumerium:Village pump: Difference between revisions
just assembling the pages is roughly the scale Metaweb is doing right now
(the Big Carrot example proves there's a market for truly accurate data, but there's also a "simpler pilot project" waiting to be done: assembling Consudev: intermediate_pages) |
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::You know what? Let me make some edits at [[user:DanKeshet/scratchpad]] and see whether my vision fits with yours. [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]] 02:14, 12 Mar 2004 (EET) | ::You know what? Let me make some edits at [[user:DanKeshet/scratchpad]] and see whether my vision fits with yours. [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]] 02:14, 12 Mar 2004 (EET) | ||
::You are correct that the original vision was "profoundly overengineered" in the hardware sense. If you look at [[Hardware Requirements]] you see all kinds of hardware thrown at non-problems. But that's been toned down somewhat, and there's thinking about [[audio]] and other [[terminal device]]s that already exist, that would not require hundreds of dollars of custom hardware per end user. But there are stores like the [[Big Carrot]] that prove that there is a market for a complete and exact solution that really does offer some guarantees that the data is accurate. | :::You are correct that the original vision was "profoundly overengineered" in the hardware sense. If you look at [[Hardware Requirements]] you see all kinds of hardware thrown at non-problems. But that's been toned down somewhat, and there's thinking about [[audio]] and other [[terminal device]]s that already exist, that would not require hundreds of dollars of custom hardware per end user. But there are stores like the [[Big Carrot]] that prove that there is a market for a complete and exact solution that really does offer some guarantees that the data is accurate. | ||
:::A "much simpler pilot project" would be to just assemble the [[Consumerium:intermediate page]]s. That is roughly the scale of [[Metaweb]], which is doing exactly that. There's no reason at all not to start that right now. They too have very long term plans for a [[semantic web]] and perhaps even make Stephenson's [http://www.metaweb.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Young_Lady's_Illustrated_Primer Young Lady's Illustrated Primer] work, making education really incredibly cheap. That too is a one-generation plan. | |||
<sub>The logo is from [[w:Wikipedia:Village Pump]]</sub> | <sub>The logo is from [[w:Wikipedia:Village Pump]]</sub> | ||