Technology will continue to play a greater role in extending cognition and knowledge. We are at the beginning stages now - through the use of widgets, aggregators, and personalized search. My exposure to information (and people) is managed through simple tools like an aggregator, tags, and social network. The Year of the Widget?: "But, thanks to widgets, taking multiple steps to track down headlines in one place and then check your e-mail in another may seem woefully outdated this time next year. These mini-applications—also called “gadgets”—are simple bits of code, easily dragged onto a desktop or pasted into a personal page, where they are constantly updated with whatever information you want."
Posted by gsiemens at January 4, 2007 6:55 PM | TrackBack