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Great story, thanks! I don't believe in the collecting of experiences through past lives thing. However, I sometimes think if the Borg are misrepresented in Sta

by Jun8 15y ago

Great story, thanks! I don't believe in the collecting of experiences through past lives thing. However, I sometimes think if the Borg are misrepresented in Star Trek: wouldn't it be great if we could save all experiences and thoughts of all beings on earth living now and also have a way to easily browse this vast collection? The Internet to the n'th degree.

cwe 15y ago
That sounds like a business idea (that I'm already working on actually). Archive everyone's personal online history and let them contribute/share their experiences with the 'collective'
- EREFUNDO 15y ago
  The ultimate form of social networking. We will be more connected than ever! So this was what Zuckerberg has been planning all along...LOL
  - cwe 15y ago
    I hope not! Hoping he gets lazy and would rather acqui-hire it!
- Jun8 15y ago
  See, I think Borg-like archiving is the easier part of the problem (although of course, I have no idea to capture and save perception, I believe it can be done, and anyway simpler capture process, like yours can be created). The real challenge is how to catalog and browse such a database. When I enter my personal history, it needs to be analyzed, main themes (and memorable parts) labeled using an ontology and all this needs to be presented using an intuitive UI. Researchers have pursued similar goals for image/video databases for more than a decade now, with little success (think how you search YouTube or Flickr: mainly through manual tags). Any that is a much simpler problem.
  - cwe 15y ago
    Good feedback, I agree completely. Got some ideas on meaningful ways to curate the data so it can be browsed. Need to get it built!
stilist 15y ago
My impression of the Borg was that they weren’t disliked because of their goal, but because they forcefully recruited.
- Jun8 15y ago
  Sure, but they were depicted as ugly and, well, borg-like. Whereas I would envision such a race to be highly rational but also emotional (you have access to the world's emotions), perhaps like Ancient Greece, on steroids!
- eru 15y ago
  Though I don't really get why the borg need all organisms of a species. If they just took a few millions here and there, nobody would complain - or at least not that loudly.
jcarreiro 15y ago
> wouldn't it be great if we could save all experiences and thoughts of all beings on earth living now and also have a way to easily browse this vast collection? No. I'm thinking of a short story I read long ago, about a man who invents a device which can be used to view the past, despite mysterious attempts to sabotage his work. As I recall, it does not end well.
- pangram 15y ago
  You might be referring to "The Dead Past," a classic short story by Asimov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
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by Jun8 15y ago

cwe 15y ago

That sounds like a business idea (that I'm already working on actually). Archive everyone's personal online history and let them contribute/share their experiences with the 'collective'

EREFUNDO 15y ago
The ultimate form of social networking. We will be more connected than ever! So this was what Zuckerberg has been planning all along...LOL
- cwe 15y ago
  I hope not! Hoping he gets lazy and would rather acqui-hire it!
Jun8 15y ago
See, I think Borg-like archiving is the easier part of the problem (although of course, I have no idea to capture and save perception, I believe it can be done, and anyway simpler capture process, like yours can be created). The real challenge is how to catalog and browse such a database. When I enter my personal history, it needs to be analyzed, main themes (and memorable parts) labeled using an ontology and all this needs to be presented using an intuitive UI. Researchers have pursued similar goals for image/video databases for more than a decade now, with little success (think how you search YouTube or Flickr: mainly through manual tags). Any that is a much simpler problem.
- cwe 15y ago
  Good feedback, I agree completely. Got some ideas on meaningful ways to curate the data so it can be browsed. Need to get it built!

stilist 15y ago

My impression of the Borg was that they weren’t disliked because of their goal, but because they forcefully recruited.

Jun8 15y ago
Sure, but they were depicted as ugly and, well, borg-like. Whereas I would envision such a race to be highly rational but also emotional (you have access to the world's emotions), perhaps like Ancient Greece, on steroids!
eru 15y ago
Though I don't really get why the borg need all organisms of a species. If they just took a few millions here and there, nobody would complain - or at least not that loudly.

jcarreiro 15y ago

> wouldn't it be great if we could save all experiences and thoughts of all beings on earth living now and also have a way to easily browse this vast collection? No. I'm thinking of a short story I read long ago, about a man who invents a device which can be used to view the past, despite mysterious attempts to sabotage his work. As I recall, it does not end well.

pangram 15y ago
You might be referring to "The Dead Past," a classic short story by Asimov. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
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