{"id":311,"date":"2003-03-13T22:03:03","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T02:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cephas.net\/?p=311"},"modified":"2003-03-13T22:03:03","modified_gmt":"2003-03-14T02:03:03","slug":"emerging-technology-who-loves-ya-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/13\/emerging-technology-who-loves-ya-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Johnson&#8217;s latest article is online @ discover.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discover.com\/apr_03\/feattech.html\">Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His thesis is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/038533348X\/cephasnet-20\/\">Cat&#8217;s Cradle<\/a>, which &#8220;<i>&#8230; explains how the world is divided into two types of social organizations: the karass and the granfalloon.<\/i>&#8221;  I was thinking on the way home tonight how the exposure of massive amounts structured data via xml (web services, rss, xml-rpc&#8230;) will make it exponentially easier to create applications like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orgnet.com\/\">InFlow software<\/a> mentioned in the article.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allconsuming.net\/\">Allconsuming.net<\/a> is one great example of that.  <a href=\"http:\/\/erikbenson.com\/\">Erik Benson<\/a> gets information from <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.com\">weblogs.com<\/a>, pings amazon&#8217;s web service and voila, we have a social book circle.  While I&#8217;m sure the availability of this information worries privacy advocates, you can&#8217;t help be get excited about the possibilities that lie ahead of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Johnson&#8217;s latest article is online @ discover.com: Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby? His thesis is based on Cat&#8217;s Cradle, which &#8220;&#8230; explains how the world is divided into two types of social organizations: the karass and the granfalloon.&#8221; I was thinking on the way home tonight how the exposure of massive amounts structured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/13\/emerging-technology-who-loves-ya-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emerging Technology: Who Loves Ya, Baby?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}