Red Shifts: New internet-big-bang opportunities
In astrophysical terms, Red Shifts refer to rapidly expanding events in the universe – like the Big Bang theory. If you’re an astrophysicist, I’m sorry to have over-simplified this wikipedia article.
The term has been coming up describing new web 2.0 technology. As demand is ever increasing for data to be stored, analyzed, and accessed – the current architecture of databases will fail. Utility computing is now back on the table and virtualization is hotter than ever! Being able to actually use this data will take the user experience much farther than the current “semantic web” visions of today. If I’m wrong, the Porkslap is on me!
Tags: red-shifts, databases, beyondVC, big-bang
A new vision of “semantic web”, see this technology.
I don’t think folks yet grasp just how far this is going to go. In addition to the video, email, and financial records we already are familiar with, we’ll soon have RFID tags and GPS embedded in almost everything we buy. But even that is still just the beginning.
Universities are already experimenting with new sensor/transducer arrays to extend the human machine interface. In one experiment participants wore belts that sensed magnetic North and indicated this wearerw with vibrations. No doubt If this were available in a watch it would include GPS and a service that would hook it up to my blog – and I’d be in line to buy it.
Pervasive computing, as this has been called, will generate new types of data in volumes inconceivable today. And you’re right , it’ll all need to be collected, stored and made searchable – something today’s databases can’t do.