Vídeo de IBM, a través de su iniciativa, http://asmarterplanet.com, en el que se presetnan 5 avances tecnológicos que modificarán sustancialmente las ciudades en el futuro más cercano.

by dolors reig | Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 | completo en http://www.dreig.eu/caparazon/2008/12/17/sharismo-la-esencia-de-la-web-20/

Es una de las preguntas que acecha a muchos desde el éxito rotundo, primero del P2P, después de la web 2.0….

¿Porqué compartimos? ¿Hemos querido hacerlo siempre? ¿Porqué lo hacemos ahora? ¿Qué ganamos con ello?

Y relacionado con todo ello ¿Cómo fomentar la interiorización de esta actitud, imprescindible para la participación en cualquier comunidad?

En cuanto a los bloggers, a pesar de haber recibido críticas ilustradas o comentarios de trolls ocasionales, muchos seguimos pasando nuestras horas escribiendo materiales, motivándonos en mayor medida cuanto más nos acercamos a las necesidades de quienes nos leen, cuanto más….Compartimos.

Responde a estas preguntas el reciente texto de Isaac Mao,  traducido por Emilio Quintana.

Y no es que sea una idea nueva. Hereda ideas del Conectivismo en aprendizaje, de la Intercreatividad(Berners-Lee), la  Inteligencia colectiva (Lévy), las Multitudes Inteligentes (Rheingold), la Sabiduría de las Multitudes (Surowiecki) o la Arquitectura de la Participación (O’Reilly).

De hecho, el sentido común nos dice que somos animales sociales en base a que siempre tenemos algo que consideramos único y que merece la pena en la medida en que es compartido.

Lo que sí es nuevo o más elaborado es su vinculación a la crítica social. Se propone como ideología alternativa a capitalismo, comunismo, socialismo, etc…, como ideario político que propone soluciones de mejora en la línea de la filosofía open-source que nos libere de años de control social, de restricciones a la libertad de las ideas, a nuestra tendencia natural a aprender con y de los demás.

También desde las teorías del aprendizaje colaborativo u organizacional, desde las actuales teorías del Knowledge Management se reconoce la colaboración como la herramienta más potente entre las disponibles para aprender.

Application of semantic technologies in Internet on 2020 (II): education

By Javier Carbonell, November 10, 2009 2:15 pm

Yesterday I was reading El caparazón, one of the most relevant blogs about semantic applications in Spanish language, when I found this post about “Education and Web 2.0”. Undoubtedly this is an area where semantic technologies will have an important say in the future.

Some experts state that most of the knowledge that an elementary school student will need to perform his job when he will grow up, don’t exist yet. How can we focus the education in so a rapidly changing environment?. Certainly knowledge is advancing so quickly that it is an almost impossible task trying to keep the pace. This raises a fundamental change in the education approach, as its key task will be to transmit information to the students, to help them to manage all this information, to help them to distinguish useful one from useless, to help them to extract knowledge from all this information… This is, learning how to learn.
No doubt Internet will change education approach at all levels. No longer students will go to university to pick up some notes, or to listen a one way explanation in which the teacher talks and students listen. Because to access to information we have Google, and to hear lectures, we can easily access to those of the outstanding experts in each subject.
Any country that wants to maintain a high level in the knowledge society must be capable of integrating technologies within education systems at all levels. We’re going to be bombarded along all our lives with millions and millions of information bytes, this is a real fact we must live with. In this situation it will be paramount to extract useful knowledge from this information, indeed this will mark the difference among efficient and no efficient people. In this environment semantic technologies will play an important role, because they will help us to navigate through information and to adapt it to our needs, that is to contextualize it. Nowadays, semantic technologies have got an important level of madurity and standards as RDF, or OWL will help us to give the jump form a “textual” management of information to a “concept” treatment of this information. This is a first step and a very important achievement. However, some years will be required to settle these concepts, and to develop technologies allowing us to extract knowledge from all the information around us: this means tools to show us to learn.

Google’s Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is “the great challenge of the age,” Schmidt said in an interview in front of thousands of CIOs and IT Directors at last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009.

Gartner is the largest and most respected analyst firm in the world and much of what Schmidt said in his 45 minute interview was directed specifically at business leaders, but we’ve excerpted 6 minutes that we believe is of interest to anyone who’s touched by the web.

Highlighted comments include:

• Five years from now the internet will be dominated by Chinese-language content.
• Today’s teenagers are the model of how the web will work in five years - they jump from app to app to app seamlessly.
• Five years is a factor of ten in Moore’s Law, meaning that computers will be capable of far more by that time than they are today.
• Within five years there will be broadband well above 100MB in performance - and distribution distinctions between TV, radio and the web will go away.
• “We’re starting to make significant money off of Youtube”, content will move towards more video.

“Real time information is just as valuable as all the other information, we want it included in our search results.” There are many companies beyond Twitter and Facebook doing real time. “We can index real-time info now - but how do we rank it?” It’s because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional sources. Learning how to rank that “is the great challenge of the age.” Schmidt believes Google can solve that problem.

There’s lots more in the full 45 minutes of Schmidt’s interview, including a statement that a Google OS Netbook will be here in 2010, with HTML5 local caching for offline use.

That’s the roadmap, though, that’s guiding much of what Google is doing today. From Chrome OS to Google Social Search.

Does that sound like a compelling vision of the future? Not discussed were distributed social networking, structured data, recommendations, presence data and other factors that could complicate Google’s plans. What do you think the web will look like in five years?