In a hundred years, do you think we're going to get Cyber-archaeologists? People who delve through the terabytes and terabytes of information which we produce on a daily basis in order to derive some historical value from the posts and news they find?
Historians are going to be almost spoilt for choice, with the sheer amount of evidence which is going to be available to them in taking stock of our society. An embarrassment of embarrassments.
It would certainly be interesting to see the kinds of methods they would use to mine the vast, vast amount of information in order to gleam anything of use. Advanced sorts which would be the equivalent of deep-sea diving, pushing aside the masses and masses of pr0n (lol, pr0n) and delving through the blogospheres and news sites in order to find some version of the truth of our society.
When I think of it, I imagine some kind of virtual reality in which people walk through the labyrinths of HTML, XML and the like, holding torches which visualize sorting methods into different levels of light so that they know when their AIs believe they are close to something of use. The reason why I imagine that people would do this is because I don't believe that Artificial Emotion will have advanced to the point where we could trust a construct to be able to tell the difference between a rare and wonderful post made by a future political hero when they were 13 and another piece of random trolling.
I'm sticking to a strictly imaginary world at the moment because of a serious personal event which nigh-on paralyze my vocabulary when I think about it, to the point where I'd be able to post nothing but an incomprehensible choir of rank swear words.
So, do you share my little fantasy about Cyber-Historians? Or do you think I'm living in a strange, over-romanced psyche?
Saturday, 25 October 2008
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