We can see details; How can we see wholes?
There are countless FreeSoftware projects, websites, subjects, questions, repositories, books, individuals, and so on – it is very hard to see them in context, as a whole.
FreshMeat? is nice, but that’s part of what the Johnson-Lenz quote refers to: “comprehensive directories.”
Similarly, in our world of “institutes,” “collaboratories,” and individuals dedicated to the study of CollectiveIntelligence, we have the same problem: myriad myriad myriad. Again, can have the difficulty of seeing the whole.
Some things that point towards ways of “seeing the whole:”
Reguarding user interfaces: 3D is something to consider, because we are in a “real world arbitrariness” / chaos in display, and the arbitrary terrain / real-estate will have psychological and political effects, meaning that more degrees of freedom will be better.
There will be hoards of SemanticWebBrowser?s, for viewing all this data, all these wholes. Views of the semantic web will have independent URLs, and constitute a form of community digest in the form of a digest.
see also: SharedAwarenessSystem.
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