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Chicago (IL) - Yesterday, Intel Research Berkeley held its 2009 open house with some truly amazing people on hand to demonstrate their latest ideas and wares. Some of the presentations would amaze most anybody, but one in particular caught TG Daily's eye. Have you ever read something on the web and knew for a fact that it was false? Or maybe there was something you had personal knowledge of and would like to expand upon the original author's thoughts by adding your own knowledge to the article -- even when comments aren't available? Confrontational Computing affords web surfers the ability to do just -- it's like Wikipedia for the whole web.
Confrontational Computing: Think Link
Confrontational Computing is an idea put into action. It's a concept that, like Wikipedia, the vast knowledge base of people on the web includes experts on every subject, or researchers on every subject which can bring additional facts together. Those expert voices which often go unheard today (due to the web's limitations), through Confrontational Computing can be heard and given unto the world. In addition, there's a voting system to raise or lower proposed ideas on both sides of debatable issues, such as global warming where there may be supporters and opponents.
The applied technology is called Think Link. It exists presently as a beta Firefox plug-in which highlights certain portions of website articles that are either in dispute, or have additional information provided previously to Think Link's servers by other users.
Think Link presents a gateway or door into alternate viewpoints in both support and opposition to the original author's content. Web surfers add viewpoints, comments, weblinks or other information to a particular webpage, or even to a paragraph, sentence or two within an article. This disputed material is then accessible via a Claim Graph which presents all viewpoints accumulated on that section to date. Like Digg and other similar websites, a voting system allows regular users who read the claims made and vote them up or down based on their believability, allowing outrageous (or politically motivated) ideas to be pushed down by the herd.
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Confrontational Computing: Think Link
Confrontational Computing is an idea put into action. It's a concept that, like Wikipedia, the vast knowledge base of people on the web includes experts on every subject, or researchers on every subject which can bring additional facts together. Those expert voices which often go unheard today (due to the web's limitations), through Confrontational Computing can be heard and given unto the world. In addition, there's a voting system to raise or lower proposed ideas on both sides of debatable issues, such as global warming where there may be supporters and opponents.
The applied technology is called Think Link. It exists presently as a beta Firefox plug-in which highlights certain portions of website articles that are either in dispute, or have additional information provided previously to Think Link's servers by other users.
Think Link presents a gateway or door into alternate viewpoints in both support and opposition to the original author's content. Web surfers add viewpoints, comments, weblinks or other information to a particular webpage, or even to a paragraph, sentence or two within an article. This disputed material is then accessible via a Claim Graph which presents all viewpoints accumulated on that section to date. Like Digg and other similar websites, a voting system allows regular users who read the claims made and vote them up or down based on their believability, allowing outrageous (or politically motivated) ideas to be pushed down by the herd.
READ ON NEXT PAGE: Agreement breeds truth?, How it works, Conclusion...