One panelist used the term "in the sky" today to discuss objects distributed out on the Web/Internet. I thought about that and Katrina and disasters such as being mugged and losing your digital devices.
And then I thought.. what about sending out images/information on the Web and binding associated meta-data with it. So data could float "in the sky" and have an existence that wasn't bound to a device. Conciously not bound. So one could disassociate devices that displayed data with the actual data.
Of course, we would need a meta-language of tags to describe the information so that it would be retrieved. And we would need a tool to find those tags, and sort them and display the information associated with them.
But still.. it would be very cool to no longer about data storage and retrieval.
Posted by artandscience at March 12, 2006 01:48 PM