The P2P network: the Net’s new AI?
p2pnet news view P2P | Cool:- Picture if you will, the human brain – powered by electrical synapses, driving complicated biological based circuitry often triggered by external stimuli (smells, pictures, texture).
Neurons, or nerve cells, each have a pair of projections – the axon and the dendrite, which transmit and receive impulses, respectively.
The dendrite, a treelike structure, has several branches dotted with hundreds synaptic receiving terminals called “spines,” each connected to the axons of scores of other neurons. When one of these spines receives stimulation (through the synapse it creates with another cell’s axonal projection), the spine expands into the synapse, strengthening the link between its neuron and the other cell.
This process of enhanced communication through a synapse is called long-term potentiation (LTP) and is thought to be the basis of learning.
Sometimes the senses’ output results in the incorrect synapse being fired, or the incorrect receptor “catching” the results of the memory bank search. (This is probably from the abuse of alcohol, THC and other similar substances during college years).
Peer 2 Peer in unwitting partnership with Google finally creates a synaptic Mob (1)
This is very much like a Google search that responds with “cheap Holiday Destinations” when one searches for London and Big Ben.
Whatever the relationship a user currently has with Google or your favourite search engine, a paradigm shift is taking place. (I love that phrase.)
Google has for sometime been trolling the internet, Facebook Walls, P2P file Sharing Servers and adding the knowledge to its search engines. Therefore, if I’m interested in E-wally, Disney/Pixars new animated release, I’m shown Facebook as the first pick. But by changing the selection to “e Wally”; midway down the page I’m offered a Torrent download of the movie — quite often, before the movie is released at the box office.
If, however, I’m not dyslexic AND I know how to spell wall-E, I’m immediately shown the movie trailer as first choice with the Torrent options now pushed down to the bottom of the page.
Our Google interaction can be likened to waking up in the morning after only two hours of sleep. The brain refuses to engage until at least two cups of coffee [insert alternate favourite heart starter here], a visit to the water closet and the obligatory invigorating shower — ie, the brain can only focus on one item at a time.
We call this time slice computing.
One thing at a time »»»
- Place: Your Apartment.|
- Time: Within the next 12 months
- As the coffee kicks in, the time slicing speeds up and the TVU is turned on.
- A voice reads aloud to you because of course the eyes aren’t focusing yet.
- “Top watched News program this morning is Fox8 on Channel 90025 out of New Orleans with 563 peers. Please say Watch to select or say menu for other options.”
TVU is a peer to peer (P2P) program/widget that lets you watch several hundred different direct to Internet broadcasts and you don’t even have to think about what is popular or newsworthy – just be a sheep and follow the herd, click on the link with the most peers.
True real time Nielsen type ratings are finally available.
But let’s go back to those synapses.
Imagine each peer watching Fox8 is actually a synapse. The peers are creating your EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for you.
If no-one is watching the channel, the selection will be greyed out (not available), and no longer will you have to worry what cable channels to subscribe to – it’s all on the internet. Or it will be soon.
The peers take over your thought processes by suggesting which programs will be delivered to you the fastest, and each peer allocates a small portion of their private computer to your viewing pleasure.
Yay! Free choice/mob rules! Call it what you will. But this is a prime example of where the Internet is taking us. The Internet, The Machine, either name is becoming rapidly more appropriate.
Each day in downtown San Francisco the ominous black omnibuses collect the skunk works Google employees to continue analyzing, rewriting, codifying your search requests. The machine has a heart-beat and its redundancy is Peer to Peer networking.
Viva P2Pvolution. (A termed coined by myself to try to explain what is happening. – Replacing the u with an i is optional.)
References:
Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of of the Internet
1 – A Mob is an Australian colloquialism for a large group of something. An example of its usage is a recent court case in Australia, from whence I hail, where an Aboriginal Elder was giving evidence about their method of counting cattle. “Every time one of them cows went through the gate, we put a pebble in a paint can your honour”. Asked the Judge, “How many pebbles were in the paint can when you finished your count ?
“Biggest Mobs your honour”.
Google has built its artificially intelligent rules set database on our search requests. None of us stop to consider that every Google search actually involves an interactive conversation between the user and the Google ruleset database.
By clicking on the link of choice we are further adding to Google’s understanding that people who wanted London AND Big Ben also probably want “Pub with a view” +”cold beer,” or if individuals are identified in personal preferences as belonging to the feminine gender, then probably “Brolly colours for next years fashion scene to view Big Ben in”.
Tom Koltai – p2pnet
[Koltai, an economist in Sydney, Australia, says he's an, "old fart (50)". He's been online for 26 years, has run several ISPs and, "lobbied governments in four countries to prevent Internet restrictive usage legislation from being enacted". He says he's a strong believer in P2P, "as being a technological requirement to fully exploit the convergence of telephony with computers and remove the last barriers to human communication and interaction".]
January , 2009
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January 15th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Very interesting Tom. Thank you.