Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The origins of tablets, collective intelligence and the metaphor of the end of the world.

Nowmov uses the "collective intelligence of the masses to watch the most popular videos and content on the Internet in real-time." Here I am in front of the screen waiting to be amazed. After three minutes, Nowmov's collective intelligence invades my neuronal activity.
An advertsing for Motorola presents the evolution of tablet. It starts with the Egyptian hieroglyphic tablet 3200 BC explaining that weight it makes it difficult for portability.



And here is the moment when the collective intelligence discovers in my memory, with a typical tangential move , the origins of tablet. Not the evolution , but the origins.

5300 BC Transylvania

TARTARIA TABLETS

The Tărtăria tablets are three tablets, known since the late 19th century excavation at the Neolithic site of Turdaş in Transylvania, Romania, by Zsófia Torma, which date to around 5300 BC.They bear incised symbols, the Vinča signs, that have been the subject of considerable controversy among archaeologists, some of whom claim that the symbols represent the earliest known form of writing in the world.
Two of the tablets are rectangular and the third is round. They are all small, the round one being only 6 cm (2½ in) across, and two—one round and one rectangular—have holes drilled through them.
As RevezNexus, a very good twitter friend , mentioned last night, Dracula was a happy man :)

Result: very portable

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Nothing is new on Earth, it seems that we write the future with the DNA of the past. We don't have to exclude the fact that maybe thousands of years ago, on Earth, a very advanced civilization has disappeared during a catastrophic event. The survivors have succeded to create a new world. Maybe this is a scifi scenario, maybe not. I wrote months ago on my IO.1 blog The Missing Link : What if "The Road" continues with "Cave of Forgotten Dreams.", a post that is questioning the same dilema.

Now we we have the chance to create a new world without destroying the old one. We have the chance to learn from our mistakes and to open a new era for the whole humanity.

So I would advice all the tablets brands to create an entire documentary about the evolution and origins of tablet. It can be a wonderful recognition for the human innovation and also an inspiration for the new generation of collective intelligence .

The end of the world is close, prepare to be amazed of the new one...