Julian Bleecker paper A Manifesto for Networked Objects - Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things ( aka Why Things Matter) presents well known indicators that force us to  reconsider social interaction.  Once more we realize that the very moment we augment objects that surround us with the capability to interconnect via web protocols we also enhance them in many other ways.  As a result they start to autonomously communicate and articulate. Therefore as emerging agents within a new socio-technological field it seems that they start somehow to "coevolute" together with humans in an IT-driven world.  The downloadable PDF file is worth to be read, without any doubt. Although the most important question stays unanswered: is it possible that code becomes langauge ?

Contemporary lingustics consider this an impossibilty. But on the other side I've never met a linguist who would have done research on topics like RSS, RDF, OSC-Commands, scheduled agent code etc.  .

 It's undeniable that autonomous machines exchanging language like code are capable to show complex behavior. So, continue reading "Letting Objects Tell Their Stories" ....