How do you build a global brain?
It's actually remarkably simple.
If you choose the right qualities that you need.
How big are the oceans of the world, and how much effort or technology is required to have water flow into them?
In fact, it takes human technology to PREVENT water flowing. Flow? That's natural. Inevitable.
Welcome to Fluid Data.
But how do all the files with all the information flow and merge like water into one big ocean, a true connected, coherent store of knowledge?
They don't.Â
Not if they're rigid, solid, with data trapped inside.
Not until you can pour the data from one file into another, effortlessly, can we have what we need to create a global brain.
Can you pour an image into a database? Sort of.
Can you pour a database into an image?
Not in today's world. In our world you can.
The trick, as ever, is easy. Not a file type per file use.
One file type, for everything.
Welcome to A4.
What is the minimal protocol that ensures that anything can be contributed, and anything can be connected, to create a store that is not just date, but which expresses knowledge?
Triples, Trinity Triples.
Not the Semantic Web. Not ERE and RDBMS.
Just as with A4, just as with Fluid Data, as with all our work, insights are the matter of a moment.
And the world is still catching up, and not there yet, decades later.
Meanwhile, did we mention that we were interested in AI?
That's for elsewhere. For now, let's move on and look at these fundamental and game-changing technologies, which still haven't changed the game, three decades later.
My marketing sucks. Did I mention that?
We start with A4.