by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
Unless the Singularity comes and we have ASI gods running around, the issue of what the UX / UI of Knowledge Navigators will be is very intriguing. I still don’t know how it would work out because it would happen in the context of the Web imploding into an API Singularity.
It just seems as though we’ll all have a central gatekeeper that will funnel the entire world’s media through it.
Right now, I think what will happen is we’ll have a central “anchor” Knowledge Navigator and then value added correspondents that would be more focused on a specific topic.
There is a meta element to all of this in the sense that even though your central Knowledge Navigator could do it, people are used to the concept of an anchor that hands things off to a specialist correspondent because of the evening network news.
I say this in the context that all media — ALL MEDIA — will implode into a Singularity. So, your Knowledge Navigator will whip up a movie with you as the star. And it’s the specific issues of how that would be implemented which is fascinating to me.
Like, who would actually produce the content that these Knowledge Navigators will give to you. I suppose if AI gets good enough, then even the gathering of news will be co-opted by the machines as well.
I mean, instead of being a movie star, what if the S1m0ne character was used to ask people questions via a screen. And, eventually, you might have AI news androids that would be able to to be physically in a news scrum on the steps of Capitol Hill.
Anything is possible, it seems.
