I heard from Yahoo in Europe recently about their vision of communities forming, living and the dying naturally at the end of their useful life.  Image a universe of star clustering and diverging continually all over the place, each time prompted for a slightly different reason and each time never quite the same combinations.  Obviously it is the profile that stands as the barrier to this and the Wikinomics blog so eloquently put it the "facebook fatigue" attached to moving salient information around.  Could there ever be a widget intelligent enough to allow people to participate in such groups without the "work" involved in making sure you are showing old the parts of your profile that are salient to each niche community?

The answer has to be yes - lest I want to get caught in the same way Comte was caught by uttering the words "we shall never be able to study [the stars], ....their mineralogical structure."  at about the same time that Fraunhofer used his new toy, his spectroscope, to analyse the chemical compound of the sun. 

Don't think for a second that I am familiar with the works of Comte, Fraunhofer, his spectroscope or any element in the chemical make up of the sun. I am firmly in the camp of getting up in the morning, checking the big yellow thing is on...its hot...good then all is well in the world. 

As for Mr Comte, I can only think that his shortsightedness was directly linked to the fact that he did not have the internet at his disposal and was therefore not plugged into the astrological community well enough to keep a breast of developments.  SHAME!!

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