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Subject:	Re: The Semantic Web
From:	"McKay, Zanna" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:25:05 -0500
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I wrote this to Harry, but it really came up when looking at the graphics of the interconnectedness of the globe. Looks like I always imagined the noosphere.
I found what you wrote reminded me of  de Chardin…
His discussion of the existence of "a sphere of thought" enveloping the Earth in "The Phenomenon of Man." In it, he called this enveloping sphere of thought the noosphere<http://www.matrixmasters.com/spirit/html/glossary/glossry.html#noosphere> and described it as "a living tissue of consciousness" enclosing the Earth and growing ever more dense.
I always image this as our inter-connectiveness today-the noonsphere.

Zanna

From: <Greenberg>, Jim <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Reply-To: Teaching Breakfast List <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:50 AM
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: The Semantic Web

TBers,

Are we at an inflection point with technology?  Can this Internet of Things (The Cloud)  bring down the barriers to using IT as it appears to be doing?  Will it enable individuals, businesses, and institutions to not have to service the existing IT  infrastructure?  To by-pass it?  Will it give us capacity on demand with an end user simple elegant interface?  The answers to these questions matter. It is one of the underling premises of Open SUNY.

I don’t have a crystal ball and I am keenly aware of technologies failed promises of the past.   Still, I can’t help but think that this time feels different.   I feel like we are at an inflection point.  That radical change in IT is coming… and it will allow individuals, groups, business, schools, etc.  to build capacity on demand, quickly and easily with a simple user interface.  Look at Facebook, SurveyMonkey, Dropbox, Google Docs, VoiceThread, Vimeo, Flickr, LinkedIn, etc.  It is only the beginning.  What will we do with an Internet that has our cars, homes, toaster ovens, and everything else connected to it?

Mr. James B. Greenberg
Director Teaching, Learning and Technology Center
Milne Library
SUNY College at Oneonta Oneonta, New York 13820

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