[finders] Our Internet of Objects

[finders at findability.org]

May 1, 2006: Our Internet of Objects

http://www.findability.org/archives/000115.php

I'd like to thank Caroline for highlighting this passage from Ambient
Findability:

"As we build our Internet of objects, the permutations of sociosemantic
metadata will create new avenues of findability. Where has this object been?
Which objects were in close proximity to this object? Who touched my object?
Where are they now? The era of ambient findability will overflow with
metadata, as every object and location sprouts tags: social and semantic,
embedded and unembedded, controlled and uncontrollable. Imagine the sensory
overload of a walk in the park. Every path shimmers with the flow of
humanity. Every person drips with the scent of information: experience,
opinion, karma, contacts. Every tree has a story: taxonomies and ontologies
form bright lattices of logic. Desire lines flicker with unthinkable
complexity in this consensual hallucination of space and non-space, a
delicious yet overwhelming sociosemantic experience."

Reading this from a distance reminds me how much fun it can be to write.