Abhinav Vora's Weblog » semantic web http://blog.abhinavvora.com Contextualizing the World! Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:27:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Information in the 21st Century http://blog.abhinavvora.com/2009/07/information-in-the-21st-century/ http://blog.abhinavvora.com/2009/07/information-in-the-21st-century/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:52:51 +0000 abhinav http://blog.abhinavvora.com/?p=23 Information has always been stored in a way that makes it easy to retrieve. E.g., based on the preferences of an individual he might store books on a shelf alphabetically or by subject. Consider another scenario in which the decision has a more profound impact: I wrote a review for a book, should I store it in a separate folder that contains all reviews I’ve written or should the review be stored along with the book? In the digital world we make these decisions constantly.

Clearly, how information is stored places constraints on what can be done with it. What is possible if there were no constraints to how information is stored? Check out this video to explore possibilities:

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