It's about making knowledge portable!

We must clear up one issue right away: Knowledge is NOT power, rather how it is used. In fact how knowledge is used is even more important than the knowledge itself. With this simple, yet vital distinction in mind...

Have you noticed that how we see the world influences what we see when we look at that world? Isn't it also true that what we see when we look at the world influences how we see it?

This relationship or 'form' pops up everywhere and permeates all of our universe. How do I know this? Well, just like in physics: I don't need the money necessary to build a Large Hadron Collider to notice what is obviously true. I need only look for fundamental principles instead of trying to find ever more fundamental particles! But how does one do that with data?

Can you remember hearing that someone cannot see the forest for all of the trees? This is simply another version of that 'form' above. Essentially it is saying that the closer you look at something, the less you see of that which is around it. Conversely the farther you are away from something you're looking at, the more you see around it and the less you see of its detail.

This 'form' is actually a universal constant. It is valid everywhere in the universe and is just as fundamental as many of the physical constants we know of. It is a member of an infinity (if constants that are derived are included) of constants evolving around and within everything in our experience. Even you are a 'constant' composed of a multitude of fundamental and derived constants.

Universal constants like that 'form' build the heteroarchical 'vocabulary' we can use to describe the universe in ways that make massive amounts of data simple to visualize and understand. If you want to understand something so fundamental as knowledge, then  what better way can you have to examine it than in terms of how the universe itself is structured?

These constants function like the powerful levers that Archimedes referred to during his sojourn here long ago; they reveal the emergent properties of data which makes the data meaningful to us as 'knowledge'. This is made possible by defining informally and practically what knowledge is:

The ability to take as many perspectives on a body of information as possible without losing your own sense of perspective.


Our products:

We are presently building the framework to aid programmers in the manipulation, display and management of massive quantities of data. We are also building a means to view and manipulate massive quantities of data for people who are not programmers; this product will be completed first. But what are some of their applications?

  • Imagine having the knowledge of up to hundreds or thousands of books at your fingertips to manipulate and correlate as one; this is an experience that cannot adequately be described and simply must be experienced to 'really know' how it feels!
  • How about learning a months worth of study in hour and a years worth of study in a week?
  • And then there are those complex tomes that even the academic groups who wrote them seldom completely understand; you could 'devour' them just as easily as any other source in your library!
  • How would it be to understand music or even mathematics visually?
  • What would it mean to you to finally understand those obscure EULAs that we often agree to without reading them as we install or update our software?
  • Wouldn't it be a relief to finally compare and understand the many rules and regulations that our non-elected members of government so eagerly create for us?
  • Or how about being able to manage audio, video and other media and relate them to books or other media as easily as you do in your own mind?
  • What would it be like to view how a set of knowledge has evolved over time or to identify if knowledge is missing or hidden?
  • How would it be to be able to carry your personal set of knowledge around with you and be able to call it up on just about any computer, Pad or Smartphone you want?
  • Another possibility is to maintain your own knowledge based perspectives on information derived from the Internet around with you as you go and actualize them whilst being on-line doing your other 'chores'.
  • There will be a cloud version for those who have to manipulate large amounts of information and do not have their own means to do so or for those who will want to do live and continuous monitoring of the Internet.

Perhaps you can now appreciate how useful these capabilities are in our time. Again, our goal is simple:

We make knowledge portable.

If you have experienced the fear of forgetting what you know... well that is going to be a thing of the past.

We will post updates on our progress here, so please check back when you can. Demonstration videos and pictures are on their way very soon.

Last Updated (Saturday, 26 November 2011 20:26)