O’Really is outlinining some of the key IT innovations that will change how people deal with application and on line services
Keywords are:
The power of less. Or Digital Commonwealth. Sharing users’ efforts in producing content and in developing software. Common wealth.
Evolutionary Key concepts are: less and less content will be typed in by people on a keyboards an more will be gathered by network of sensors and computed and used on different devices. There are many fields of applications of this kind of IT
How to apply Moore’s law to world’s problems. Current Power Grids are the same as in the 19th century. Imagine a network connecting sensors energy grid, recognizing appliances from their electric footprint (pattern in spikes in pattern consumption) to help optimizing power consumption on a local and global level.
USSPENDING.GOV (government expenses monitoring) costed only 200.000 USD: it was cloned from FedSpending.org (non profit organizations). The US Gov just licensed their code. Lots of saving can be generated from content and application sharing, we are just at the beginning of this change.
Patientslikeme.com is another excellent example of user generated content in critical context.
Still, there are lots of “Information Shadows”
There is no global namespace in most of the knowledge fields or social fields.
There have been few examples of that: CDDB database. Reading the checksum of each song it maps content of a cd on a global namespace.
Web will be more and more based on a network of sensors (power usage, traffic, local readings, etc) using common namespaces to give them meaning.
My final impressions from the keynote session are: - we are in a transition situation, using legacy systems created decades ago and introducing (not widespread adoption) new distributed models of computing and value creation through IT. The IT is changing evolutionary patterns and innovation style.
