Open Web Mind

Mark Jeffery

What if we’ve been doing the web wrong? What if, instead of mindlessly browsing, we could be thinking? What if, more than a mere collection of pages, the web could be our collective mind? Open Web Mind is a radical reinvention of the way we capture, explore and share our knowledge. Subscribe to stay in touch as it evolves.

  1. 12/18/2024

    Why is the web written in the wrong language?

    If you go to any web page, chances are you’ll find it’s written in the wrong language. It shouldn’t be written in English. Or Japanese. Or Arabic. The web shouldn’t be written in any language spoken by humans. It shouldn’t mimic the way we speak. It should mimic the way we think. — References: A hundred billion neurons are intricately interconnected in our brainsA few tens of thousands of years ago, we evolved languageA few thousand years ago, we invented writingA few decades ago, we invented the webImages: Skara2 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skara2.jpg by Rob Farrow licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0Newgrange – Ireland via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newgrange_-_Ireland.jpg by Andrew Kearns licensed under CC BY 2.0Reproduction cave of Altamira 01 by MatthiasKabel licensed under CC BY 2.5Prehistoric Rock Paintings at Manda Guéli Cave in the Ennedi Mountains – northeastern Chad 2015 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prehistoric_Rock_Paintings_at_Manda_Gu%C3%A9li_Cave_in_the_Ennedi_Mountains_-_northeastern_Chad_2015.jpg by David Stanley licensed under CC BY 2.0Menhir du Pré du Devens à Saint-Aubin NE by Marc Juillard licensed under attribution licenseMerseburg, Kulturhistorisches Museum, Gefäße der Rössener Kultur-2 by Dguendel licensed under CC BY 4.0Pilspets – Historiska museet – DIG 55462 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pilspets_-Historiska_museet-_DIG_55462.jpg by Ola Myrin licensed under CC BY 4.0Stonehenge2007 07 30 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge2007_07_30.jpgby garethwiscombe licensed under CC BY 2.0Depictions and hieroglyphics – Sanctuary via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depictions_and_hieroglyphics_-Sanctuary(14284133120).jpg by Jorge Láscar licensed under CC BY 2.0Chinese fishing nets, Cochin via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Fishing_Nets_Cochin.jpgby Brian Snelson licensed under CC BY 2.0Salterio, xvi secolo, 02 iniziale D by Sailko licensed under CC BY 3.0The Great wall via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_wall_-_by_Hao_Wei.jpg by Hao Wei licensed under CC BY 2.013-11-02-olb-by-RalfR-03 by Ralf Roletschek licensed under CC BY 3.0The Difference Engine wheels via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Difference_Engine_wheels_(4376246859).jpgby Marcin Wichary licensed under CC BY 2.0Hite Crossing Bridge HWY95 view2 MC by Christian Mehlführerlicensed under CC BY 2.5Physics Book via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physics_Book.jpg by basykeslicensed under CC BY 2.0“Ivy Mike” atmospheric nuclear test – November 1952 from The Official CTBTO Photostream public domainEndeavour via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shuttle_in_outer_space_by_NASA.jpgby prayitnophotography licensed under CC BY 2.0Wikipedia articles on knowledge in English, Japanese and Arabic— Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web MindI release the Open Web Mind podcast as a video too! Watch here. The full article is here. Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.

    6 min
  2. 08/22/2024

    AI won't kill Google... here's what will

    Far from killing Google, AI slots seamlessly into their business model. As long as we still go to Google when we want to know something, and as long as Google tells us what we want to know at least as well as OpenAI, and as long as we don’t care that Google’s balancing what we want to know with what people with influence and people with money want us to know, then it doesn’t matter how Google arrives at a particular response to a particular search, whether it’s through a three-decade-old PageRank algorithm or through the latest in AI. AI won’t kill Google. But what if something else came along that didn’t have to perform that tightrope walk between what we want to know and what Google wants us to know? What if that something else weren’t a search engine? It’s at the dawn of something completely different – completelyunexpected – that the mighty fall. — References: chat.openai.comperplexity.aigemini.google.com Google’s PageRank algorithmSources: When Windows launched in 1985, IBM was worth $30 billion. Now it’s worth $160 billion.When Netscape launched in 1994, Microsoft was worth around $20 billion. Now it’s worth $3 trillion.When Instagram launched in 2010, Facebook, too, was worth around $20 billion. Now it’s worth $1 trillion.When TikTok launched in 2016, YouTube was worth maybe $100 billion. Now it’s worth maybe $400 billion. Google has been using AI to improve their search engine since 2001.Admittedly, AI didn’t work its way to the core of the search engine, ranking results, until 2015, but that was before OpenAI was born.Google pays Apple $20 billion a year so that when you want to know something on your iPhone, you go to Google.— Hosted by Mark Jeffery founder of Open Web MindI release the Open Web Mind podcast as a video too! Watch here. The full article is here. Kootenay Village Ventures Inc.

    16 min

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What if we’ve been doing the web wrong? What if, instead of mindlessly browsing, we could be thinking? What if, more than a mere collection of pages, the web could be our collective mind? Open Web Mind is a radical reinvention of the way we capture, explore and share our knowledge. Subscribe to stay in touch as it evolves.