James Burke's Knowledge Web overview

[Architectonic01]

Maybe we just need to overlay this over Wikipedia.

[Hermanhusband]

OK, I've read the comments and seen the website... The timing is pretty telling. This idea was being put together in the years leading up to 2006... Wiki and other sites were really coming on strong in those years. This idea simply got overtaken by reality. It's a great idea, but it was top-down info flow, from expert to masses, and that model is dead. By the time they turned around good, their great idea had been created by the masses, and was edited by the same, for free... So they ditched it

[Hermanhusband]

I'm sorry? Why is this different that jumping around Wiki using hyperlinks? The graphic linkage maps are nice, but they don't show the quality of the links, only the links, which doesn't give context, just raw connections. Also, is it just me, or when you search for Burke's project, is it particularly devoid of useful info or quality web-sites. I went to the K-website and found it sparse indeed. There was immediate link to the linkage maps. I'm sorry, but shouldn't Burke's stuff be hotter?

[MarcLT1]

Does this mean k-web still intends to work the same with the move to freebase? must be taking ages to populate this database accurately but the best of luck with the project.

[persianlor]

So I'm guessing this project is dead. I've gone to the site...and there's nothing there really. Nothing like burke seems to be describing. So is this series idea dead? I hope it's not...but it seems like there just isn't any information on it, since 2006. 4 years is a loooong time. So is this project DEAD?

[ZachariasClub]

@persianlor well... maybe, but things have changed so fast, it could still be in production...

[MrRik2]

They open with the World Trade Centre and then move to Flight 911?? Spooky...

[MRCAB]

This video needs a serious update, if it's going to be viewed on the main website: quality wise.

[CHANNELOMD]

Fair point

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Yes it is odd that the KWeb site itself links to a low-quality video on youtube. Wouldn't James and crew have access to higher quality video??

[MRCAB]

Three years is a long time, I suppose. Really, all they'd have to do is re-upload their original video source and replace this with that.

[vikas72]

Good one. Now you may want to share the knowledge using eZdia. Check eZdia

[LibBiblio]

I don't understand...where *is* all this great stuff? It looks pretty well developed, so where is it?

[BallinTrollin]

we have to wait for it...i hope it doesn't get abandoned.

[stevenc123]

Is it using the activeworlds software for the 3d parts?

[visceralgristle]

I wonder if the project's been abandoned. I was excited when I first heard of this, but there seems to be spotty updates at best on the site. It would be interesting to see if the Kweb concept could be integrated with other software like Google Earth and Wikipedia, and other troves of info on the web. James was talking about a "knowledge web" a long time ago, even back when he did the original Connections.. and it's nice to see just how right he was.

[visceralgristle]

Wow... it looks like there hasn't been a news update to the site since 2006. Not a good sign. That's a bummer.

[kevindontenville]

It's still alive and we are working on getting it moved on soon. Watch this space ;-)

[Maximara]

We're watching the space and don't see much activity ;-)

[CHANNELOMD]

ha ha ha

[Maximara]

@CHANNELOMD Sadly not much has seemed to have happened. I would have though it would a lot further along.

[JamesBurkeFan]

Please visit my site for more James Burke videos.

[happyseaurchin]

brilliant!

[Richard7901]

With a world full of fools and people happy to celebrate their ignorance, THANK YOU James Burke, unfortunatly there are too few of your kind today, a man of inspiration whose every word makes me aspire for greater understanding of the world

[patmck13]

Well Burke was into six degrees long before Bacon, though we have jokingly called kweb six degrees of Francis Bacon ;)

[catalhuyuk]

Hmmm... I wonder if Kevin Bacon is in the K-Web?

Seriously now, any proyect by the great James Burke is always welcome.

[rzmonk76]

bringing us closer and closer to Neal Stephenson's book "The Diamond Age"

[patmck13]

Yes, Royal Society (central to the new trilogy) is well represented in K-web; and Snow Crash got me interested in educational potential of VR as well.

[dk2hint]

James turned me on to History 18 years ago, and I've been ever grateful ever since

[sgbnyc]

Thank you for posting this! I have been following James Burke's work since "The Day The Universe Changed" was first broadcast. I love how he ends this video...stating how important each one of us is to what the future will be.

[gregjbarker]

Way cool! Stoked to see James burke again. One question?

Is this work to be made downloadable? That it might run uninterrupted, even with a slow internet connection?

And for we visually challenged, perhaps a larger screen size?

[felaiuki]

fantastic!