Getting a sense that things are converging fast. AI, robots and now human augmentation.

"Extra parts, from a thumb to an arm, could be designed to help boost our capabilities"

#HumanAugmentation with robotic body parts is at hand, say scientists | #MedicalResearch #Robotics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/02/human-augmentation-with-robotic-body-parts-is-at-hand-say-scientists

For those interested in #search, I've rewritten much of the introductory article on my plans for a next-generation search engine: https://github.com/davidshq/next-search

I've defined the #philosophical characteristics (#ethical commitments to create a better world) and foundational characteristic (that which delivers the superior results, #HumanAugmentation) of the #SearchEngine.

#InformationRetrieval #WebSearch

As always, feedback is greatly appreciated. I have much to learn!

Love to see the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence publishing things like this:

"Economic interests will heavily influence the direction of human augmentation development and they are likely to differ from society’s interests. The private sector invests more in research and development and has greater organisational agility than state institutions, meaning it can employ the best researchers to stay at the cutting edge of human augmentation research. Developing enhancements is likely to be highly profitable but activities will focus on the most lucrative activities and not necessarily on those that deliver the greatest benefit to humanity. The tension between states, societies and market forces is nothing new, but the consequences of mismanaging a technology as potent as human augmentation could be profound."

#HumanAugmentation #PrivateSector #Capitalism

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-augmentation-the-dawn-of-a-new-paradigm

3/ Over time #SearchEngines largely replaced #WebDirectories - the ability to #search more of the #internet became more important than the ability to find the #BestOfTheWeb.

While we gained much in this manner we also lost much. I think we can still see folks yearning for #HumanAugmentation in the popularity of #AwesomeLists, e.g.:
https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python
https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go
https://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue
https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love

The lists go on...

2/ But how could a #SearchEngine meaningfully improve #socioeconomic #equity?

I believe the best #search is provided by machines plus #HumanAugmentation.

For a long time we had #directories, e.g. #yahoo, #dmoz/#odp, #WorldWideWebVirtualLibrary, #InternetPublicLibrary that provides human #curated search results...and these results where often of high quality but limited in scale.

As the #internet became more integral to human life the ability to maintain human-curated directories decreased.