About

logobig

I am a data-smith 1 and coder seeking community dialogue about the semantic web after reading the book This Is For Everyone in which Sir Tim Berners-Lee explains how it is important for everyone that the web serves everyone. I like the idea of transforming the web from an attention economy to an intention economy. Furthermore, I think the need to transform our tools applies at a level down from the web also : i.e. software tools.

Jensen Huang predicted in 2017 that "AI is going to eat software" in a neat reference to Marc Andreessen's prediction in 2011 that software is eating the world. All this canibalism is having a serious effect on the world ! Software is an important medium through which humans are given agengy, so as AI swallows software : humans lose out. I propose the term "natural computing" as both the literal opposite and the logical accompaniment to "artificial intelligence" : the ability to instruct computers could be made much more accessible to all, to the point where it becomes a basic literacy.

  1. The term data-smith is introduced here to describe people who work with data, in a loosely similar way to a blacksmith works with iron, or a locksmith works with locks. ↩