Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts

Friday, April 11, 2008

Alive and Kicking... Google 2084

Yep...after several months of abstinence, I'm back, finally.
During the last few months, a lot has happened, in science, in business, and also in private. Thus, there is a lot to talk about and a lot of forthcoming posts. Probably the most complex thing during the last months was to handle two large EU-FP7 proposals as being one of the proposal's core partners, with writing, discussing, conferencing, travelling, conferencing, discussing, and writing again, etc....
Also in my genuine research areas a lot has happened. You might be looking forward to several blog posts on information retrieval, semantic web, semantic search, multimedia retrieval, web of trust, e-Learning, and many more.

Today I just wanted to show you a funny 'screenshot' of what might Google look like in 2084.

Ok. The image is not really new. Actually it was published by Randy Siegel back in 2005. You might also find it in the New York Times. The question is not, if Google would be capable to offer these services, but rather when. Anyway, I guess theese services could be offered much earlier......and (at least) also with a much better user interface.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

A subway rail system for the WWW....

Informationarchitects have published a large map on web trends for 2007 and beyond. The 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective being mapped to the Tokyo Rail system (c.f. boing boing). Although I don't aggree with some of the facts, they've done a great job in visualizing the properties and the interrelatedness of the depicted websites. Actually, I don't really agree with their 'Web x.x'´-indicator for x.x > 2...
Anyhow, they have also provided a clickable online version as well as an A3/pdf and a MacOSX screensaver....