This document discusses the history and evolution of social media and information sharing from ancient times to the present. It traces the development of writing systems, printing, electricity, telecommunications, and the internet which have progressively lowered the costs and increased the speed of sharing ideas. Recent technological advances like smartphones, social networks, and wireless sensor networks are bringing about a new era where physical and digital worlds converge to enable new forms of collaboration and problem solving at a global scale.
2. Where to start?
2001.
Wikipedia.
Social media employ web- and mobile-based technologies to
support interactive dialogue and “introduce substantial and
pervasive changes to communication between
organizations, communities, and individuals.”
2004?
Facebook.
4. The application of scientific
knowledge to support interactive
dialogue.
The
Scie
Language, Letters, Books.
3000 BC
Egypt. Alphabets. Papyrus.
nce
of S
har
ing
Ide
as.
21. Wireless Sense Networks
C eNSE
Central Nervous System for the Earth.
Consisting
of
a
trillion
nanoscale
sensors
and
actuators
embedded in the environment and connected via an array of
networks
with
computing
exchange
their
information
systems and end users.
systems,
among
software
analysis
and
services
engines,
to
storage
30. 2045
Vern & Ray predict an intelligence explosion
- Superintelligence
The Singularity.
superhuman intelligence would represent
a breakdown in the ability of humans to
model the future thereafter.
Vernor Vinge
There will be no distinction, postsingularity, between human and
machine.
Raymond Kurzweil
43. The past 10 years have been about discovering new ways to
work together and offer services on the web.
The next 10 years will, I believe, be about applying those
lessons to the real world. It means that the future doesn't
just belong to internet businesses founded on virtual
principles. but to ones that are firmly rooted in the physical
world.
The process of making physical stuff has started to look
more like the process of making digital stuff.