For a great deal this post is an extension to my earlier post, The Ghost Leaving the Shell. There I discussed how a system designer leaves an echo of their “ghost” in the design. You might like to read that before reading this entry, but you should be able to understand this post without it too. Both of these entries are actually in the very core of this blog, discussing the question of whom we are interacting with, when using digital services.
The remake of Total Recall movie, once again featured a personal message in the form of an interactive hologram. The idea is that you interview the hologram for the information that was sent to you. Also in I, Robot, Dr. Lanning had left, before his death, a holographic note to the murder investigators, where the message was something rather of a riddle. Finally, at least, the hologram confirmed to the main character: “That, detective, is the right question.” Continue reading “Posthumous Messages in Interactive Bottles”
One of these things has been puzzling me for several months already: What is this thing they call Big Data really? A mass of data generated so fast that it cannot be practically managed by conventional methods. So, how much can be? And tomorrow we can manage more data than we could yesterday, as technology advances, so what is Big Data today might not be tomorrow? – Of course, tomorrow we will also be able to produce data faster that we were yesterday, for the same reason.