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Look no further: Search 2010

Raf Manji — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:56:05 +0000

We are starting to see some revelatory musings on how search is going to develop going forward. This series is well worth reading for anyone who is interested in how the web is going to develop.

The Future of Search is Receive

Raf Manji — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:02:44 +0000

Thanks to Kaila i’ve been considering the future of search in 2010 or more to the point the future of search itself.

It didn’t take me long to realise that search is going to replaced by receive. How annoying is that to all those businesses involved in SEO

But seriously if we are still searching in 2010 i will be surprised because by then the web should be evolving into a living and breathing system. This system will not be a library which we dip into hoping that we will find what we are looking for but will be part of us.

Simply put we will become the system.

We won’t need to search anymore as we will be the filter through which information, that we both want and may be interested in, will flow.

Search is an external process: Receive is an internal process.

Relevance technologies will be key to this evolution as will as filtering systems. Receive will be an intelligent learning system. I’m looking forward to this.

Which is the best receive engine?…..that will be the question.

Raf Manji — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:16:40 +0000

This video is so much fun so thanks Kaila for posting it up. What i love is its simplicity and how people are seriously happy and loved up by the end of it.

Incoherent System

Raf Manji — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:14:40 +0000

Professor Peter Brown from McGill University in Canada is here in New Zealand speaking about our dysfunctional economic system.

Heâ€™s not wrong there. He was speaking on Radio NZ but the interview never really got going. He had enough time to talk about the incoherent nature of our economic system, how GDP measures income and consumption but not well being and how triple bottom line accounting was a waste of time. Agreed!

What we need is a better connection between our biophysical system and our economic frameworks like Trucost for example.

We also need to ask ourselves some basic questions such as

- what is our economy for? speculation or sustenance.

- what size should it be? as big as possible or big enough.

Simple questions but rarely asked. The mantra of economic growth at all costs is intellectually flimsy. Its lazy thinkingâ€¦â€¦..the assumption that GDP growth is all that matters is quite clearly false.

What about crime, illness, pollution? What about the increasing gap between rich and poor.

As individuals we search for coherence but as a global economy we struggle to find that because there are no tools to do so. So perhaps by becoming more coherent ourselves we will aid and enable a global coherence.

As the Mahatma said â€œBe the change you wish to seeâ€.

Letâ€™s keep asking questions of our system.