Assimilation over Evolution, you will be Assimilated! This is my journey from human to Borg and you are invited along for the ride.


Saturday, September 18, 2004

Idea

I have been a bit off of ideas lately for what to post here. I had originally thought I would post things like what implants I have and what EQ I am using to augment reality.
That's what we call it now, augmented reality. See the site at eyetap.

Anyway I am also going to report here on my latest work " the internet as collective memory" or We are the net, you will be assimilated.

If someone were to take snapshots of the web we will be able to track the changes in the collective mind of the planet.
For instance if we wanted to see how prevalent a certain Idea is we can just search for it on the web.
One of the things I saw was a comparison of the number of places "coke" is on the web and compare that to the number of places water shows up on the web. In that comparison (on google) we see water shows up 56,100,000 timers and "Coca Cola" shows up 2,500,000 times. This suggests that water is much more favoured over Coke. Not the best example but hey there it is.
So I am assuming that if we search for any thought by creating a google search for keywords we can gauge the level of thought about that particular idea. If we then snapshot the web and can compare the levels of thought on an idea at different times we can gauge the increase or decrease in that line of thought being held around the planet.
This is the collective thought.
Welcome to the internet. Welcome to the collective.

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