Get unstuck!

I feel somewhat like what a writer feels, stuck on a chapter and unable to move forward. I’m looking for that flash of genius that will facilitate moving forward. I would like to note that we have a beautiful home surrounded by wonderful people. I sometimes fail to appreciate that.

The popular impression that people have of me is that of a logical thinker or someone knowledgeable. But I believe that I am more of a feeler. I don’t really have a logical grasp on proper sentence construction or an exhaustive knowledge of words and their meanings. I only write what feels right. The same goes for computer science. I know certain things and sufficiently enough to enable me to determine what feels right and what seems to be awkward. I also believe in God. All of which are as anti-scientific as can be. But I love facts and challenges. And I see computing as the embodiment of both logic and feeling. The point I’m trying to make here is that I feel there is something amiss with current networking paradigm. Paradigm… I’m using that term now.

Networking infrastructure and advancements are progressing properly, observing Moore’s law. Also intellectual content available via networks are also progressing at an increasingly rapid rate, no problem there either. The problem here is the way these infrastructures and information are organized, presented and cross referenced. Something is amiss. With all the information available there doesn’t seem to be one truth. But that’s just it… There is no one truth. The world looks different depending on which eyes looks at it. This brings to bear the fact that when the internet was born it was born at the eyes of one Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Grown by countless minds, a word to describe it would be... Sublime. But the internet has grown to include varying views and opinion of all gradients.

Information it seems is no longer sufficient by itself. This is similar to the semantic web theories as one of the ways to achieve ubiquitous computing. Metadata has become necessary. Google I would like to note is looking into the same thing. Search, although it has centralized most if not all information, is not enough. But it’s not just the information; there is also the manipulation of that information and its timely consumption.

I stumbled upon a possible solution some three years ago and have been mulling the idea ever since. I am however having trouble putting this idea down in a concrete way. It’s not a simple idea as I was also born into this paradigm we are all comfortable with, and the current paradigm still works. Before I get to the solution, let’s take a look at the end game first.