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Electronic mail is here to stay – for those who aren’t aware of the sequel to this glorious setup, otherwise commonly known as Twitter in the twenty-first century, it is the next best built-in application in all pre-existing and future portals from browsers, to content & knowledge management systems, to Wikis etcetera.

At a whift of a mouse click best in the back-end, and with some smart programming, “SPAM be GONE”!!

It will, like e-mail evolve to something grandeur than Google or an operating system, or even an ancient hardware like the uncommonly used these days — The ‘faithful’ typewriter which later evolved into the PC, or an Apple – and like many other intangible innovations, Twitter will be like all things that evolved from a non-calculative approach, transform into the ‘apple’ of the last millennia. As much as one may dislike sending 140 characters across the digital wave, derivatives of the once less-frequented whore in the digital world, the email, in the future, is really a work of art!

It is afterall an infra for communications – it’s a canvas where words are woven into a synergy tapestry — and with it, a real-time search engine sifting through the synchronized abyss of binaries crossing imaginary borders in an illusory world beyond the perceptive reality within the Rebirth-ed creature — humanity, itself.

The beauty of how things take shape and evolve, over the years — how from the darkness of the womb of wavelets, through the ‘eureka’ moments and suddenly through the Arpanet, the first SMTP ASCII ‘digital’ message was sent and before you know it, programs were developed, G-UI implemented, and voila, everything that was naturally ‘ugly’ or perceived as mere genetic copy of ‘creation’ itself became beautiful, and as translucent as a thought may be, the Web became part parcel of peoples’ lives — and as much as strategists may believe that email will eventually disappear altogether, just like typewriting machines, the Web will still evolve into something more singular — Through the blueprint, and for some more calculative giants – the financial plan through web-marketing and sales forecasts planning strategies.

Scrutinizing the microscopic super organism of “Collective Intelligence”.

A society, like all autopoietic systems, is an open system: it needs an input of matter and energy {resources} to build its components, and it will produce an output of matter and energy in the form of waste products and heat. In spite of being thermodynamically open, an autopoietic system is organizationally closed: its organization is determined purely internally. The environment does not tell the system how it should organize itself; it merely provides raw material. The autopoietic systemcontains its own knowledge on how to organize its network of production processes.

Closure means that every component of the system is produced by one or more other components of the same system. No component or subsystem of components is produced autonomously. If it were, the subsystem would itself constitute an independent autopoietic system, instead of being merely a component of the overall system. This requirement of closure is perhaps what makes the application of autopoiesis to social systems so controversial. Closure distinguishes what is inside, part of the system, from what is outside, part of the environment.

Maturana and Varela’s {1980} original definition of autopoiesis adds to this that an autopoietic system should produce its own boundary, that is, a spatial or topological separation between system and environment. Unlike biological organisms, most social systems do not have a clear spatial boundary. Moreover, for most social systems the closure requirement is only partially fulfilled.

Aside that, the future of the Web is still in the making – the future, whether perceived now looking back in the past before the idea of fiber optics, became a ‘reality’ in the Summer of 95 or the future where civilization will cease to operate when it evolves into a mere thought in the Lord’s playground — O My!, we’ve travelled that far back, and you know, we’re really going places – from migrating offline businesses into the perils of SEO, through branding and public relations, through CSS layering and making sites more user-friendly through interactive real-time exchange within a split of a nano second in social networks beyond XMPP fractions beyond anything permissibly ‘thought of’ that August of 1995 in Geneva, the birthplace of neutralities.

What will make it go even farther would be the interactions between the common and the greater, the hidden, and the apparent; the seemingly wealthy and the pauper where layers of transparencies aliken those in bureaucrats desktops, these cellophanes will play its role from here onwards, where entities are spared the embarrassing buoyancy of “what’s mine is mine, and what’s your’s is mine” — where copyright acts and ‘licenses’ will be acknowledged, but not incite a brouhaha, of how things will be when humanity will for once, consciously , work together like a giant fizz of energy creating, disseminating, exchanging, instructing, and finally with verve into transcended byte for humanity’s resurgence as a node of the primal collective consciousness in the fractal-gram of the living Universe.

Organizations can thrive on the key evolutionary challenge of our age, identified by Douglas Engelbart as “the increasing complexity multiplied by the increasing urgency,” only if they develop a high level of collective intelligence, or intellectual capital. Maximizing the organization’s human and intellectual capital is its key to succeed in the new, knowledge-based economy. An organization develops collective intelligence the same way bodies do – by growing and using a nervous system.

… And all that because someone thought that sending a message via homing pigeons were too conspicuous, in warfare. With the advent of nanotechnologies, and Twitter, these will soon be over in a blink of an eye!

Notes

Homing Pigeons in Computing
The Pigeon Project

“I believe that imagination, and especially collective imagination, produces reality. In choosing imagination over prediction, I mean to underline the fact that the future has not yet been written and that we are probably much more free than we think. We are responsible for the world, which we create together through our thoughts, words and deeds. That is why I am convinced that it is much more constructive to use our own powers of perception and freedom of choice in a creative manner rather than denounce, judge and condemn the world as it is, that is to say, at the end of the day, others — P Lévy, Collective Intelligence, A Civilisation: Towards a Method of Positive Interpretation”

What is emergent intelligence? It is a form of macro-intelligence that arises from local interactions. It isn’t merely the simple stigmergic interactions {Stigmergy is a term used in biology — from the work of french biologist Pierre-Paul Grasse — to describe environmental mechanisms for coordinating the work of independent actors} necessary for the coordination of the swarm activities of local autonomous agents. Rather, it is a form of group intelligence that learns, achieves goals, and engages in self-preservation — John Robb, Emergent Intelligence in Open Source Warfare.