The Sentient Web

Imagine a world where technology and humanity intertwine, a place where the internet is not just a tool, but a partner in our shared experience. Welcome to "The Sentient Web: AI, Ethics, and the Future of the Internet". As we propel further into the digital age, this comprehensive exploration delves into the heart of the digital transformation that's redefining our world. It navigates the realm of Artificial Intelligence, cyber ethics, and the emergence of a symbiotic relationship between human and machine agency. "The Sentient Web" presents a compelling look into how we might balance freedom and control in an age of autonomous systems, and uncovers the unintended consequences of automation while tackling the massive challenges inherent in regulating a world-wide-web that continues to evolve at an astounding pace. As we explore the profound implications of a sentient web, we must be sure to create a digital world that reflects the best of who we are, and the world we wish to live in. "The Sentient Web: AI, Ethics, and the Future of the Internet" is more than just a book—it's a thought-provoking journey, an exploration, and a call to action. Dive in, and join the conversation about the future of our digital world. This is your invitation to the frontier of our shared digital future. Don't just witness the transformation, be a part of it!

Imagine a world where technology and humanity intertwine, a place where the internet is not just a tool, but a partner in our shared experience. Welcome to "The Sentient Web: AI, Ethics, and the Future of the Internet". As we propel further into the digital age, this comprehensive exploration delves into the heart of the digital transformation that's redefining our world. It navigates the realm of Artificial Intelligence, cyber ethics, and the emergence of a symbiotic relationship between human and machine agency. "The Sentient Web" presents a compelling look into how we might balance freedom and control in an age of autonomous systems, and uncovers the unintended consequences of automation while tackling the massive challenges inherent in regulating a world-wide-web that continues to evolve at an astounding pace. As we explore the profound implications of a sentient web, we must be sure to create a digital world that reflects the best of who we are, and the world we wish to live in. "The Sentient Web: AI, Ethics, and the Future of the Internet" is more than just a book--it's a thought-provoking journey, an exploration, and a call to action. Dive in, and join the conversation about the future of our digital world. This is your invitation to the frontier of our shared digital future. Don't just witness the transformation, be a part of it!

Explores universal questions about humanity's capacity for living and thriving in the coming age of sentient machines and AI, examining debates from opposing perspectives while discussing emerging intellectual diversity and its potential role in enabling a positive life.

Ever since we first introduced the term Web 2.0, people have been asking, What ™s next? Assuming that Web 2.0 was meant to be a kind of software version number (rather than a statement about the second coming of the Web after the dotcom bust), we ™re constantly asked about Web 3.0. Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more. The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world "everything and everyone in the world casts an information shadow,an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mindbending implications. Web Squared is our way of exploring this phenomenon and giving it a name.

This book brings into focus the technologically augmented nature of global online communities, advancing research methods that reveal the imprint of emergent social forms and characterise digital frontiers of social engagement. Drawing on insights from across the social sciences, it presents a case study of people with passions for reptiles and amphibians to illustrate for next generation researchers how to conduct community research in the real world. Richly illustrated with ethnographic research, together with extensive survey and interview material drawn from around the world, Research Methods and Global Online Communities explores the changing nature of communities that form around common interests and are embedded in a digital architecture rather than place. In doing so, this book transcends the digital dualism of online/offline models of community and engages with debates on the social impacts of the internet and the adaptive nature of community. As such, it will appeal to social scientists interested in innovative approaches to characterising digital communities through mixed-methods research practice.

Readers seeking to gain a handle on the internet's global expansion will find this book rich in scholarly foundations combined with cutting-edge discussion of emerging ICTs and services and the complex societal contexts in which they are embedded. To explore possibilities to the fullest extent, a sociotechnical systems approach is employed, focusing on the interplay of technical, social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics to explore alternative futures (ones that are not part of the dominant discourse about the internet). These shared perspectives are not well addressed elsewhere in current discussions. Awareness of these dynamics, and the fluidity of the future, is important, as humankind moves forward into the uncertain future. Due to the sociotechnical complexity of the Internet, policymakers, businesspeople, and academics worldwide have struggled to keep abreast of developments. This volume's approach is intended to stimulate dialogue between academics and practitioners on a topic that will affect most aspects of human life in the near-term future.

Human communication is a constant, continuous, and dynamic phenomenon. You cannot not-communicate nor can you un-communicate. For an individual entity, there is only ONE communication. Not multiple, not varieties, only one. That one communication is the culmination of all that has been communicated by the entity until the "now" in time. You cannot go back and un-communicate something. You can only begin from the "now" to create the intended outcome. That outcome is always a negotiation with the receiver/audience/community to cultivate an agreed understanding. For a communication professional, understanding this fact is essential. No matter where you work, someone has been communicating something before you began. You cannot un-communicate it. You cannot create a new beginning; but you can begin now to create a new outcome. Research continues into the changes in communication wrought by the Internet and public expectations that are experiencing mercurial change. As best practices are now being developed, the Media Relations Handbook 2e can give you guidance and ideas that will spark your innovation.

Curiosity about the human mind—what it is and how it functions—began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be described only by means of metaphor. Michael Kearns, in this prize-winning study, examines the development of metaphors of the mind in psychological writings from Hobbes through William James and in fiction from Defoe through Henry James. Throughout the eighteenth century and even into the early nineteenth, metaphors of the mind as a relatively simple entity, either mechanical or biological, dominated both those engaged in psychological theorizing and novelists ranging from Richardson and Smollett through Dickens and the Brontes. In the nineteenth century, such psychologists as Herbert Spencer and Alexander Bain conceived of the mind as a complex organism quite different from that embodied in earlier thinking, but their figurative language did not keep pace. The result was a tension between theoretical expression and actual discussion of mental phenomena