The First and Future Webs

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The First and Future Webs
Kim H Veltman

• 1 International Workshop on Information Science
• Brasilia
• 5 December 2006

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• Man would no longer need documentation if he
  were assimilated into an omniscient being - as
  with God himself. But to a less ultimate degree,
  a technology will be created acting at a distance
  and combining radio, X-rays, cinema and
  microscopic photography. Everything in the
  universe, and everything of man, would be
  registered at a distance as it was produced. In
  this way a moving image of the world will be
  established, a true mirror of his memory. From a
  distance, everyone will be able to read text,
  enlarged and limited to the desired subject,
  projected on an individual screen. In this way,
  everyone from his armchair will be able to
  contemplate creation, as a whole or in certain of
  its parts.

Paul Otlet, Monde essaie d'universalisme --
connaissance du monde sentiment du monde action
organisée et plan du monde Brussels, Editions du
Mundaneum, 1935 http//www.laetusinpraesens.org/d
ocs/otlethyp.php
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Paul Otlet, La machine a penser le monde, 1943
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Parts Minutes 1. Present
10 2. Past 50 3. Future
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Part 1Present Web
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In 1964, Paul Baran studied 3 kinds of networks
and suggested a distributed network as the best
option. http//www.cybergeography.org/atlas/baran
_nets_large.gif
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In 1992 Donna Cox and Robert Patterson (NCSA)
visualized the Internet as a Web http//www.cyberg
eography.org/atlas/cox_1678_large.jpg
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Since then there have been many web like
visualizations e.g. J.A Brown et al.(2000).
http//www.cybergeography.org/atlas/topology.html

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• 1968 2
• 1990 1 million
• 50 million
• 200 million
• 1000 million
• Today 1086 million
• Fixed Internet Growth

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• 131 GFlops
• 2000 2379 GFlops
• 2006 280600 GFlops
• 2008 1,600,000 GFlops
• Top 500 Computers

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Very Different Solutions are Being Explored.
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1gramme of
dried DNA can hold as much information as 1
trillion CDs. DNA takes shape,
BBC News ,12 January 2000
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In 1995 the Internet was 95 English. In 2004 it
was 36.2 English. Global Internet Statistics
September 2004. http//www.glreach.com/globstats/
http//www.netvalley.com/languages_2001.gif
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In September 2006, the Internet was 28 English.
http//www.glreach.com/globstats/ http//www.net
valley.com/languages_2001.gif
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There are visions of complete usage e.g.
European Schoolnet Vision http//www.elearningres
ults.com/ppt/stream20H/H920CELEBRATE20Simon_Ass
che_Pucci/20040514Sestri.ppt341,13,Complete
usage scenario
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Wikipedia is Growing Enormously and is now the
largest Encyclopedia in history.
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikipediaSize_of_Wi
kipedia
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New Plans 6 October
2006 Citizendium or Citizen's Compendium
guided by expert editors, and contributors will
be expected to use their own names, not anonymous
pseudonyms.
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Full Text Scanning is Exploding in Size Dates
Volumes Project 1949-1974
52 Index Thomisticus Father Busa 1972
-2001 12,000 Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
1971- 16,000 Project
Gutenberg Michael Hart 1990s- 125,000
Pollard Chadwyck Proquest 2000 1.5
million Dissertations Proquest 2001
1 million Books, Raj Reddy, CMU 2004
15 million Books, Google 2005-10 6
million Books, European Commission via BNF
http//www.gutenberg.org/about/
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Internet as Ethernet and Internet as a Cloud
sturtevant.com/reed/pres1.htm
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Internet as Ethernet and Internet as a Cloud
http//www.acf.hhs.gov/nhsitrc/resource/technolog
y_prototype.html
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The Semantic Web is focussing on these
addresses (URLS, URNS) to establish security.
As a result the WWW acts as if the web of
connections were effectively an Ether- net
independent of objects in the physical world and
different layers of reality.
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Meanwhile the Internet has spread beyond
this cloud to include Space Astronomy
Earth Geography (GIS, GPS, UMTS) Oceans
Oceanography
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Hubble Telescope Images heritage.stsci.edu/2005/1
2b/supplemental.html
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Microsoft Virtual Earth http//blog.searchenginewa
tch.com/blog/050523-125208
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VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the
Sea) project http//blog.searchenginewatch.com/bl
og/050523-125208
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Three Worlds Virtual Heavens, Earth and Oceans
and a WWW http//blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/0
50523-125208
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This is part of a larger trend to Map and
Scan different worlds 1. Metaphysical
Philosophy, Religion 2. Mental
Literature, Mathematics 3. Physical
Space Astronomy Earth Geography
Oceans Oceanography 4. Man Made
Architecture 5. Social
Sociology, Psychology
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• The deeper challenges for Semantic Webs of the
  future lie in linking information and knowledge
  beyond the Ethernet clouds to these different
• Levels of Reality
• Scales of Reality

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The Semantic Web has focussed on the
logical truth of 1-1 links via URLS. A
Semantic Web for Culture requires multiple sets
of links which show how these 3 worlds are linked
via many variants in terms of names and even
explanations.
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Ideas for the deeper challenges of
future webs are found in the earliest webs of
language and knowledge in India and the East that
are claimed to go back 10,000 years.
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Part 2The First Webs
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The idea of a web goes back to stories of
creation.
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The Aksak dung beetle created first man and woman
from clay www.crystalinks.com/ scarabs.html
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In India the story of creation is told as the
story of the creation of language.
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One of their starting points was study of 3
Phases of Moon.
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Man like Sun Woman like Moon 3 Worlds
3 Goddesses 3 Phases Heaven
Sarasvati Rhea Earth Parvati
HeraUnderworld Durga Demeter
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3 phases of moon 3 worlds 3 phases of
lifeHeaven Sarasvati Young Earth
Parvati MotherUnderworld Durga
Crone
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Juno

Minerva
Aphrodite

Thus the monthly cycle entails either 2 x 15
days (30), 3 x 9 days (27) or of 4 x 7 days
(28).
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Female India Young Woman Mature Woman Old
Woman Kali Lakshmi Durga Lakshmi
Durga Saraswati Arabia Al-Uzza Al-Lat
Manat Uzza Allat (al-ilahat Goddess)
Manat Virgin Mother Visionary, witch Greece
Aphrodite Hera Minerva Selene
Artemis Hecate Luna Diana Persephone
Persephone Demeter Hecate This inspires
the Triple goddess in East and West.


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In terms of Information architecture this points
to a first needwe need to go beyond 1-1 is a
statements to represent the complexities of the
triple goddess as her name moves from East to
West.
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The mysteries of woman weave 3 ages of life 3
worldswith 3 x 3 9 threads.
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In Sanskrit MAMA Nutritive Principle which
shows how 1 becomes 2 becomes 3.
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It also leads to triple symbolism Moon, as
nutritive force (Mama) as rooftop in Japan as
Triskell. ii i, h) i) as triskell i
http//es.geocities.com/contraandrocentrismo/elam_
india.html ii Photo by author from temple in
Nikko. Cf. http//www.iecn.u-nancy.fr/latocha/Pho
tos/Japon15/Grand/triskell.jpgMama Symbol,
Japanese Version and Triskell
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It also leads to triple symbolism Labyrinths in
Celtic Ireland Trinacria in Sicily and variants
in Celtic Northern France.
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3 Worlds of Knowledge evolve in a Matrix in 7
Stages
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Stages1. ANAM Nameless2. AGAM
Inaccessible3. ALAKSA Incomprehensible4.
AUM Vibration5. Kala
Time6. Desh Space7. Patra or Anu
Individuation
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Stage 1 is A ANAM Nameless
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Stage 1 of Pre -creation results in one point.
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?
Downward force in the evening
A
I
?
I V sideways at noon K.
K
?
A
Upward force in the morning.
The prime force is 1 with 3 forces potentially
that will become 3 phases of the day.
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Stage 2 is A AGAM Inaccessible
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Stage 2 of Pre -creation results in two points.
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In terms of Geometry, Stage 2 results in a line.
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Stage 3 is A ALAKSAIncomprehensible
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Stage 3a of Pre -creation results in 3 points as
an upward triangle A, Ka, Tha.
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In terms of the Sephiroth this entails 1, 2 and 3
http//www.aiwaz.net/kabbalah/sephiroth/sephiroth
.htmwww.crystalinks.com/ tarot2.html
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Stage 3b of Pre -creation results in 3 points as
a downward triangle
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In terms of the Sephiroth this becomes 2 and 3
and 6. http//www.aiwaz.net/kabbalah/sephiroth/sep
hiroth.htmwww.crystalinks.com/ tarot2.html
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In terms of Geometry this results in a Triangle.
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Stage 4 is AUM Vibration Creative
force obscures Ever-Uncreated
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Stage 4 of Pre -creation results in 4 points.
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In terms of the Sephiroth this effectively
entails 2, 3, 4, 5 http//www.aiwaz.net/kabbalah
/sephiroth/sephiroth.htmwww.crystalinks.com/
tarot2.html
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In terms of Geometry this lead to a first square
that generates the matrix.
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Stage 5 is Time Kal Change in
the Ever-Unchangeable
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Kala or Time entails 5 Points
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In terms of the Sephiroth this effectively
entails 4,5, 6, 7, 8 http//www.aiwaz.net/kabbala
h/sephiroth/sephiroth.htmwww.crystalinks.com/
tarot2.html
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These become the central spokes of
Ginnungapap 1  ???????, 2  ???????????, 3 
?????????, 4  ??????, 5  ????, 6  ????????,
7  ????????, 8  ?????????????, 9 
??????????. http//ginnungagap.narod.ru/wrlds.gif
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Kala or Time entails 5 Points which can be
re-arranged.
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In geometry these five points generate a matrix
of 4 squares.
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These four squares entail 9 points, which leads
to 9 squares.
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This becomes the Indian matrix of 3x 3 (9
squares) linked with the image of a Tortoise or
Kurma (avatar 2 of Vishnu).
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In China this tortoise becomes the Lo Shu Diagram
also involving a matrix of 3 x 3 squares.
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A Geometrical version of same Chinese Diagram
shows how the numbers always add up to 15 1
phase of the moon.
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A Geometrical version of same Chinese Lo Shu
Diagram shows how the 9 (3x 3) squares produce
16 (4 x 4 dots) the 15 days of the moon plus a
16th when it remains at its maximum.
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In China the 5 points are drawn as 5 points with
4 joining lines.
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This helps us to recognize that the Chinese and
Indian methods are two versions of the same
matrix.
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In India these 5 points become 4 squares of an
inner matrix.
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In like manner the 5 upper and lower lines in
China generate 4 x 4 squares in India or
conversely 5 x 5 points.
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These 16 squares entail 25 points.
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The Same 25 points arranged as 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
all the male numbers under 10 in China.
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21 January Aquarius (formerly 21 December
Capricorn)
Draco, mirrored and the sign of 25 in the Tribu
Restaurant. http//www.cosmopolis.com/star-myths/
classical-const-north.html
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In terms of Geometry this is the pentagon that
combines with triangles to generate the Five
Pointed Star of SiVA that leads x 12
Dodecahedron http//www.geocities.com/sarabhanga/
singularity.html
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Stage 6 is Space Desh Division
is produced in Ever-Indivisible
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Stage 6 of Pre -creation results in 6 points.
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The upward and the downward triangle now meet as
the Six pointed star linked with the seal and
stars of Vishnu, Solomon, and David.
http//www.devshoppe.com/YantrasOther.html
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Stage 6 of Pre -creation also results in 6 points
of the 3-D pyramid . http//historylink101.net/eg
ypt_1/rf-k-great-pyramid.htm
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Stage 7 is Atomic Form Patra or Anu One
appears as innumerable objects
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Stage 7 of Pre -creation results in 7 points.
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In terms of the Sephiroth this effectively
entails 4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9 http//www.aiwaz.net/kabb
alah/sephiroth/sephiroth.htmwww.crystalinks.com/
tarot2.html
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Stage 7 of Pre -creation results in 7 points.
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These 7 points become the 4 directions up, down
and centre. http//www.kheper.net/topics/I_Ching/t
rigrams.htm
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The 28 days of the month can then be drawn as a
pyramid of points as a square of 28 points or as
6 x 6 squares with 49 points.
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In the Westarithmetic discrete
quantitygeometry continuous quantity and
treated separately.In the East Arithmetic and
geometry are integrated.
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This leads to matrices of
squares and dots 1
4 2
6
3 x 3 (9) 4 x 4 16
4 x 4 (16) 5 x 5
25 5 x 5 (25) 6 x 6
36 6 x 6 (36) 7 x 7
49 7 x 7 (49) 8 x 8 64
8 x 8 (64) 9 x 9 81
9 x 9 (81) 10 x 10 100 10
x 10 (100)
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The 3x 3 square leads to a 4 x 4 square which, as
we shall see, becomes central in the
development of alphabets.
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This 4x 4 16 pattern x 4 8 x 8 64 Squares
chessboard, checkers the game of Go (
Sanskrit for heavenly cow). http//www.planetmike
.com/games/chess/
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In India this culminates in a 9 x 9 ( 3 x 3 x 3
x3 the 3 principle of ? applied to the 4
directions) as the Vastu Purusha Mandala as
basis for positioning gods and directions http//w
ww.gosai.com/chaitanya/saranagati/html/nmj_article
s/sacred_architecture/vastu-shastra-2.html
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These matrices are found also in the New World .

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The Vastu Purusha becomes the Indian Equivalent
of Vitruvian Man. www.salagram.net/
sstp-mgpuja3.html
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In China, the I Ching uses dots with implicit
Magic Squares.