All human languages, all domains, all places, all devices – global open resources for all humans
Computer memory and processors changed the face of human navigation in cities, so too can it change the face of navigation through fragmented and Byzantine sets of rules for every discipline and topic. It is not only memory devices that changed navigation in cities – it is many people (and computers) working together to review, verify and correct the knowledge required. The twist and turns are stored and translated by the computer, and humans interact with global open resources to “know”, to “grok” – without all that lossy memorization into human brain cells.
Because we humans have been writing things on paper (sequences of sounds of languages, images and icons and symbols) the conversion of all human languages and all domain specific languages of human jobs and disciplines needs to be reviewed and codified in a global open manner involving all humans, all memory devices and their systems.
It is not just human sounds and human sight and feelings involved. It is our history and future, our ways of expressing, learning and communicating with each other. Transformation from storing things in human memory to storing it in global open resources – for all humans and related species, forever. What is learned and stored today – could last forever.
The global open shared memories can be eternal and infinitely adaptable The systems gathering and storing and using all knowledge alongside humans can implement systems that are eternal – continuously updated, continuously archived in lossless form, and continuously improved. The systems must themselves be “human” in caring, wisdom, adaptability, and awareness.
Filed as (All human languages, all domains, all devices – global open resources for all humans)
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
