The new gold rush
december 1, 2008 Social Networking No CommentsJeg læste denne artikel i New York Times og kan varm anbefale det for de mange der spørge mig “Hvad er næste”?
For mig, den “næste” handler netop om at finde ud af, hvordan vi kan bruge den såkaldt “digital trail” som vi alle sammen skaber via vores social network, mobile telefon, Wifi netværk, GPS, bluetooth enheder og alt muligt andet til nyttige oplysninger. Artiklen citere Steve Steinberg, og hans blog - som er lige så spændende som det er tung findes her - med denne meget spændende citat:
“The tools and theories needed to analyze social interactions are just now reaching the level of sophistication — in accuracy, in robustness – necessary to leave the lab and enter commercial duty. We are in a period analogous to the early 1970s, when developments like the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Black-Scholes equation transformed finance, changing it from an art to a science, and opening enormous new markets in the process. Now, new equations describing “crowd dynamics” are about to change our lives. And not always for the better. This is one of the most significant technology trends I have seen in years; it may also be one of the most pernicious….
It wasn’t long after the 2003 invasion of Iraq that US military theorists began to realize that our soldiers were completely lost amidst the country’s byzantine tribal structures, religious factions, and internecine feuds. They needed tools to help navigate these social structures that were as effective as their GPS devices and laser-designators were at guiding them through the local geography. DARPA moved quickly, creating a half-dozen social science programs, all of them focused on near-term research with mostly tangible deliverables. The mission became known as “human terrain mapping”, sure to be one of the most important neologisms of this decade.
It’s interesting, if unsurprising, that DARPA had focused on the social sciences only once before: in 1962, during the Vietnam War.”
Som artiklen her siger, har Google været i gang med dette arbejde allerede (det er netop det som driver deres søgmaskine teknologi). Der findes også mange firmaer her i Danmark der arbejder med på hvordan man kan bruge disse oplysninger til at forbedre salgsarbejde (newsperience) til monitorering af hvordan mennesker bevæger sig i den virklig verden (Spopos projektet i københavns lufthavn).
Et eksempel fra overnævnte artiklen, som viser det præcis:
“In 2006, Sense Networks, based in New York, proved that there was a wealth of useful information hidden in a digital archive of GPS data generated by tens of thousands of taxi rides in San Francisco. It could see, for example, that people who worked in the city’s financial district would tend to go to work early when the market was booming, but later when it was down.”
Mest spændende både med denne artikel og andre forskning i social network adfærd jeg er bekendt med er at social netværker både øger og skaber et større behov for mere ansigt til ansigt kommunikation. Social netværk mapping og Social data mining gøre vores netværker mere gennemskulige og nyttige, men de viser også at personlig kommunikation er vigtigere end nogensinde.
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