My Future-Sense antennae twitch like mad at the very notion that at some point in the future, there may be sufficient numbers of bloggers each blogging at sufficiently high levels of detail and frequency to make it worthwhile for someone to build an indexing engine that would collate the millions of individual personal accounts of events - initially these accounts would likely be restricted to 30,000 feet views of world events but with increasing resolution, this could ultimately drill-down to local events and eventually right down to inter-personal and personal events.
For example today, the BBC site has an On This Day in history page where it invites witnesses to add personal perspectives on world events to embellish its factual news reports.
Once a total personal index is achieved, the trick would then be to collate and map all the linked events and relationships backwards and sideways to build a global meta-construct that would eventually enable us to decode chaos into some form of logical sense and understanding.
That would be cool.
For example today, the BBC site has an On This Day in history page where it invites witnesses to add personal perspectives on world events to embellish its factual news reports.
Once a total personal index is achieved, the trick would then be to collate and map all the linked events and relationships backwards and sideways to build a global meta-construct that would eventually enable us to decode chaos into some form of logical sense and understanding.
That would be cool.