At this moment watching the introduction to the Keynote at the Future Observatory Conference. Information, computation and the new era of knowledge
Big themes in the future about use f knowledge and computer power.
Showing us WOLFRAM/ALPHA a knowledge Engine. Like a search engine but generates knowledge in real time.
He asked it about the fall of the Berlin wall and it told him what would happen to his bodyif he fell off the Berlin Wall.
Explains the maths of it. Turn input question into symbolic maths. Address this to a set of knowledges and work out how to display the knowledge.
The semantic web-based on tagging of information.
Need to know what do we mean by knowledge.
1. Massive improvement in democratisation of information retrieval.
2. Now need to democratise computational knowledge tasks.
3. Knowledge is system of facts ,method and interpretation.
4. SEARCH is KNOWLEDGE.
5.What about method and interpretation.
Underlying maths. Maths underlies major aspects of our knowledge. The world has become more computational.
Knowledge assets being made available but how can citizens access it without being computer database experts.
We need to change the way our education works.
We are forcing our population to learn, e.g. maths -things like hand calculation of equations.
Most of time spent on calculation -and a little spent referring it to the real world.
Ends by talking about "The Computational Knowledge Economy"
where people have access, as a form of service, to the processes of undestanding knowledge via computational systems.
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