the web 2
Created By: hayden
Last Modified: 12/12/05
Summary: What is the web? Is it linked computers or linked people? Where’s the separation between the two? Seriously, the answer to this matters – because the web is either useful or not, depending on one’s perception of it. So much today depends on answers, and answers either map to our belief systems or not. Do we look to affirm or inform? Affirmation gets us into wars, bias, bigotry, religious differences, separation, and division. We are entering a period in history where more than ever, we want to be told what is what, and what to do. Google is not God or gods, but it is the perfect answer for the kind of mindlessness that prefers ready-made to thinking through.
Into this morass comes Jeteye: an approach to finding knowledge and information in the web, and a tool for raising the issue that human consciousness pervades computing, not the other way round.
Jeteye is not so much an evolution of technology but a throw-back to the old-fashioned concept that human knowledge is what drives civilization, and the healthy exchange of information is what makes in part, a healthy society. This at a time when the world is in love with computers and fast answers. Jeteye is not in love with the web, or computers, or gadgets -- it only loves the paths we travel that we choose, and only seeks to save and share information and knowledge in digital world so that that world is not a separated reality. Up to you. It all depends on what you think the web is – Jeteye, at its core, wants you to change your mind and direction only as often as you like, or not.The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may
deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
- Freeman Dyson
Whoever talks about Planck's constant and does not feel at least a little giddy obviously doesn't appreciate what he is talking about.
- Niels Bohr (quoted by Teller: see French & Kennedy 1985, p.182)
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.
- The Upanishads
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- Jelauddin Rumi
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
- Giordano Bruno
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
- Winston Churchill
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
- Freeman Dyson
Whoever talks about Planck's constant and does not feel at least a little giddy obviously doesn't appreciate what he is talking about.
- Niels Bohr (quoted by Teller: see French & Kennedy 1985, p.182)
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.
- The Upanishads
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- Jelauddin Rumi
No theory of reality compatible with quantum theory can require spatially separate events to be independent.
- J.S. Bell
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
- Giordano Bruno
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
