Nova Spivack on the Future of the Semantic Web and Machine Intelligence
April 16 2008 / by Marisa Vitols
Category: Technology Year: 2008 Rating: 5 Hot
A friend forwarded me this awesome short interview of Nova Spivack, founder of EarthWeb in 1994 and Radar Networks in 2003 (which just launched the much-hyped app Twine), in which he discusses predictions for the coming year and the longer term.
Spivack’s prognostications largely focus on widespread adoption of the semantic web. He believes the semantic web will enable the broader web’s evolution to one big database via linked metadata, and that Facebook is slowly becoming a search engine to compete with Google, while Google is becoming a social network to compete with Facebook.
In the longer term, by 2020, “[W]e will move toward an intelligent web where the web moves from a just knowledge base to a kind of global mind – an intelligent entity comprised of billions of pieces of software and billions of people working together to make some new form of intelligence that transcends human or machine intelligence on its own.”
Spivack also points out that he disagrees with Ray Kurzweil on the fundamental roles humans and machines will play in the coming decades.
Learning from the Future with Nova Spivack from Maarten on Vimeo.
(via RapidStage by Maarten Lens-FitzGerald and shout-out to David for forwarding me the awesome video!)
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Backing up the notion that Google is actively building a social media component (in addition to Orkut) is the latest news / speculation that the company is looking to convert iGoogle into a social network.
Posted by: Alvis Brigis April 21, 2008
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