While the first drafts were promising I felt that something was wrong and that they didn't fitted with what I expected.
Now I have the feeling that I got the idea expressed properly. And a problem came with that feeling. What came out my private brainstorming is so different from what I know as existing that I suppose that very little people will be interested on that. Not revolutionary as it doesn't need to change things to be (useful), just evolutionary, adding properties to information bits and turning them 'alive'.
In fact this is a sequel to a concept build back in 2000, used for some months, then abandoned, as more urgent things had to be managed.
I always considered documents as something primitive. They have the bad habit to stay there and do nothing else then be available. I consult them and... That's all. They go back to the storage space. Some traces remain as memories in my brain, but why should they stay inactive.
Semantic Internet Objects must be active, reactive, have an independent life and able to remind me there existence if significant changes are to be reported. Thus, SIOs were redefined as 'bots.
They do have a document as the central part. But also the necessary elements to have a life of there own.
A SIO:
have an e-mail address and is able to receive and send messages,
have an history, reporting changes brought by it's authors, and a blog where it announces it's birth, evolution and the building of relations with other SIOs, a 'personal' journal on the Web
surf the Web to identify other SIOs, with which it have affinities, to build relations and aggregates based on ideas, SIOs clubs,
may become independent of it's creator and live in cyberspace it's own life,
would die if it isn't adapted to it's environment,
may give birth to new SIOs independently of any human action.
Science-Fiction? I'll try to convince you that it's time to turn it on Science
I will try to go further then theory providing a "proof of concept" if a few people are willing to join the adventure [a quatuor would do].
My limitations as a programmer restrict the entry to MacUsers and will require for each of them at least a Blogger profile (that's the easy part). That's because applescripting is the most I can do on programming (and it's the hard part) and I am accustomed with Blogger's features and limitations.
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