http://disqus.com/by/gkparkinson/enSat, 07 Feb 2009 15:18:11 -0000http://luckyrobot.com/?p=184#comment-6071675<p>Some good ideas and nice observations here, thanks. This post along with a number of others recently (by, eg, John Borthwick and Adam Greenfield) seem to be tending on a convergent course with some things I have been thinking lately; helpful and encouraging.</p><p>In your last couple of paragraphs you go toward an idea I like: 'emergent search' by association or connotation; the kind of lateral jump we make during conversation from one thread to another, bound by metaphor as much as anything... I frequently get the feeling of this at work reading twitter.</p><p>Concerning your remarks about fragmentation and complexity ("Since web 1.0...), the feeling that it is making life more complicated is a product of the extent to which we don't quite yet understand how the parts of the emerging system fit together. The incredible speed of popular adoption of social/communication technology tells us that more problems are being solved than created, I think. The fragmentation is necessary to discover the underlying potential for unity -- as you say, necessary for the next phase.</p>gkparkinsonSat, 07 Feb 2009 15:18:11 -0000