Topic Maps and the "big story"

Steve Newcomb

Steve Newcomb

Coolheads Consulting, United States

Description

This talk begins by considering where we are in the story of civilization (the “big story”), and charts a possible future in which the technology of memory sharing enables a profusion of collective human intelligences. It uses the Information Economy Metalanguage (IEML) as an example of such an enabling technology. It proposes that a revolutionary aspect of topic maps is that they enable shared intuitions by allowing information emanating from different cultural perspectives to be co-located, even while such co-locations remain addressable in terms of their original cultures.

Other presentations:

The Topic Maps Attitude (Topic Maps 2006)