The trouble is, it takes a really long time to create these visualizations: research the topic, collate the data, source the images, design the layout and code the animation.

I’ve long dreamed of a tool that would do all the hard work for me.

So I made one.

Open Web Mind allows you to visualize nodes... nodes that can represent anything: mountains, colours, people, anything.

In plot view, it allows you to control precisely where each node appears along x-, y- and z-axes.

You can create visualization based on any values, from traditional periodic tables to revealing relationships... between elements’ abundance and atomic number, planet’s density and distance from the sun, anything.

Playing around in plot view, you’ll find that Open Web Mind doesn’t just help you see.

It helps you think.

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Visualizations

• Rivers of the Pacific
• Real World Colour Wheels
• Earth Elevation
• 1-Dimensional Countries
• Nuclides

Sources

• River and glacier geography from Harvard University – Centre for Geographic Analysis – World Rivers, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and Earth Sky – First complete map of ice flow from heart of Antarctica
• Combined elevation and bathymetry data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – National Centres for Environmental Information – ETOPO1 Global Relief Model Amante, C. and B.W. Eakins, 2009. ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model: Procedures, Data Sources and Analysis. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS NGDC-24. National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V5C8276M. Accessed 16 February 2019
• Distances between cities from DistanceFromTo
• Nuclide data from Wikipedia – Table of nuclides, Wikipedia – Isotopes of hydrogen, helium, lithium, etc., Wikipedia – Hydrogen, Wikipedia – Neutron, Wikipedia – Atomic mass unit, Brookhaven National Laboratory – National Nuclear Data Center – Atomic Mass Adjustment, University of Waterloo – Chung Chieh – Nuclide Stabilityand National Institute of Standards and Technology – Fundamental Physical Constants

Credits

• Wordings from WordNet created by Princeton University licensed under WordNet 3.0 license
• Wordings from Wikipedia created by Open Web Mind reader licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 according to Wikipedia license notice
• File:OSIRIS Mars true color.jpg – Wikimedia Commons created by ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO according to ESA content conditions of use

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But it’s not just about relationships between entities.

It has cold, hard numbers, too.

If you’ve been impressed by what you can do with the relationships between entities in Open Web Mind, you’re going to be blown away by what you can do when you throw in those cold, hard numbers.

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Credits

• wordings from WordNet created by Princeton University licensed under WordNet 3.0 license
• wordings from Wikipedia created by Open Web Mind reader licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 according to Wikipedia license notice
• wordings and values from List of chemical elements – Wikipediacreated by Wikipedia licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 according to Wikipedia license notice
• wording from List – List of natural satellites – Wikipedia created by Wikipedia licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 according to Wikipedia license notice
• values from World Development Indicators | The World Bank created by The World Bank licensed under CC BY 4.0 according to World Bank license notice
• File:FullMoon2010.jpg - Wikimedia Commons created by Gregory H. Revera licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

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But it’s not a monolith.

It’s made up of many individual minds.

Each mind is its own knowledge hypergraph. Each has different edges, but these edges are between the same nodes.

Which means you can meld your mind with other minds, and think as if your mind and those other minds were one.

Open Web Mind is a billion knowledge hypergraphs that hold a billion individuals’ and institutions’ knowledge, melded into a combinedknowledge hypergraph that holds all human knowledge.

It’s a billion minds, melded into humanity’s mind.

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Nothing more.

Nothing less.

It’s the simplest protocol ever.

So how can something so simple hold something as complex as humanity’s mind?

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References

• There are a hundred billion neurons in your brain

Images

• Earthenware phrenological bust from the Wellcome Collectionlicensed under CC BY 4.0
• Multipolar Neuron by Bruce Blaus licensed under CC BY 3.0

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But there’s a more precise way to represent connections in Open Web Mind.

Hyperedges.

Hyperedges are what make Open Web Mind a truly powerful way to capture human knowledge.

They transform the knowledge graph into the knowledge hypergraph.

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References:

• Node names and definitions from WordNet created by Princeton University licensed under WordNet 3.0 license

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Yes, I really am that old, and I have the grey hair to prove it.

So why, three decades later, is it finally the right time for a mind for all humanity?

Why now?

Here are three reasons why the time is ripe for Open Web Mind:

• Reason #1: Search is dead
• Reason #2: Smash the system
• Reason #3: Seeing is believing

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References:

• google.com
• Startpage – uses Google search
• YouTube
• Gmail
• Images weren’t introduced into HTML until 1995...
• ...several years after Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first specification in 1990
• Google didn’t introduce image searches until 2001...
• ...prompted by Jennifer Lopez’s green Versace dress...
• ...several years after WebCrawler launched the first true search engine in 1994

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Fire.

The billions of neurons in your brain fire trillions of times a second.

How do you think in Open Web Mind?

Same answer.

Fire.

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References:

• There are billions of neurons in your brain.
• They fire trillions of times a second.
• There’s resting potential, threshold potential and action potential.
• Each neuron, if it fires, it communicates a signal to thousands of other neurons.

Images:

• Political World & Political Africa from the CIA’s World Factbook public domain

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It shouldn’t be written in English.

Or Japanese.

Or Arabic.

The web shouldn’t be written in any language spoken by humans.

It shouldn’t mimic the way we speak.

It should mimic the way we think.

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References:

• A hundred billion neurons are intricately interconnected in our brains
• A few tens of thousands of years ago, we evolved language
• A few thousand years ago, we invented writing
• A few decades ago, we invented the web

Images:

• Skara2 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skara2.jpg by Rob Farrow licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
• Newgrange – Ireland via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newgrange_-_Ireland.jpg by Andrew Kearns licensed under CC BY 2.0
• Reproduction cave of Altamira 01 by MatthiasKabel licensed under CC BY 2.5
• Prehistoric Rock Paintings at Manda Guéli Cave in the Ennedi Mountains – northeastern Chad 2015 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prehistoric_Rock_Paintings_at_Manda_Gu%C3%A9li_Cave_in_the_Ennedi_Mountains_-_northeastern_Chad_2015.jpg by David Stanley licensed under CC BY 2.0
• Menhir du Pré du Devens à Saint-Aubin NE by Marc Juillard licensed under attribution license
• Merseburg, Kulturhistorisches Museum, Gefäße der Rössener Kultur-2 by Dguendel licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Pilspets – Historiska museet – DIG 55462 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pilspets_-Historiska_museet-_DIG_55462.jpg by Ola Myrin licensed under CC BY 4.0
• Stonehenge2007 07 30 via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge2007_07_30.jpgby garethwiscombe licensed under CC BY 2.0
• Depictions and hieroglyphics – Sanctuary via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depictions_and_hieroglyphics_-Sanctuary(14284133120).jpg by Jorge Láscar licensed under CC BY 2.0
• Chinese fishing nets, Cochin via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Fishing_Nets_Cochin.jpgby Brian Snelson licensed under CC BY 2.0
• Salterio, xvi secolo, 02 iniziale D by Sailko licensed under CC BY 3.0
• The Great wall via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_wall_-_by_Hao_Wei.jpg by Hao Wei licensed under CC BY 2.0
• 13-11-02-olb-by-RalfR-03 by Ralf Roletschek licensed under CC BY 3.0
• The Difference Engine wheels via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Difference_Engine_wheels_(4376246859).jpgby Marcin Wichary licensed under CC BY 2.0
• Hite Crossing Bridge HWY95 view2 MC by Christian Mehlführerlicensed under CC BY 2.5
• Physics Book via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Physics_Book.jpg by basykeslicensed under CC BY 2.0
• “Ivy Mike” atmospheric nuclear test – November 1952 from The Official CTBTO Photostream public domain
• Endeavour via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shuttle_in_outer_space_by_NASA.jpgby prayitnophotography licensed under CC BY 2.0
• Wikipedia articles on knowledge in English, Japanese and Arabic

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In our minds, we flow so easily from one motion to the next, one feeling to the next, one idea to the next.

Why can’t it be like this when we’re on the web?

Why can’t we flow as easily through our collective mind?

Well, with Open Web Mind, we can.

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As long as we still go to Google when we want to know something, and as long as Google tells us what we want to know at least as well as OpenAI, and as long as we don’t care that Google’s balancing what we want to know with what people with influence and people with money want us to know, then it doesn’t matter how Google arrives at a particular response to a particular search, whether it’s through a three-decade-old PageRank algorithm or through the latest in AI.

AI won’t kill Google.

But what if something else came along that didn’t have to perform that tightrope walk between what we want to know and what Google wants us to know?

What if that something else weren’t a search engine?

It’s at the dawn of something completely different – completelyunexpected – that the mighty fall.

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References:

• chat.openai.com
• perplexity.ai
• gemini.google.com

• Google’s PageRank algorithm

Sources:

• When Windows launched in 1985, IBM was worth $30 billion. Now it’s worth $160 billion.
• When Netscape launched in 1994, Microsoft was worth around $20 billion. Now it’s worth $3 trillion.
• When Instagram launched in 2010, Facebook, too, was worth around $20 billion. Now it’s worth $1 trillion.
• When TikTok launched in 2016, YouTube was worth maybe $100 billion. Now it’s worth maybe $400 billion.

• Google has been using AI to improve their search engine since 2001.
• Admittedly, AI didn’t work its way to the core of the search engine, ranking results, until 2015, but that was before OpenAI was born.
• Google pays Apple $20 billion a year so that when you want to know something on your iPhone, you go to Google.

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So how does Open Web Mind decide these rankings?

This question of how to rank edges in Open Web Mind will take us to the even deeper question of how we make connections in our minds.

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Sources:

• List of ISO 3166 country codes from the International Organization for Standardization
• List of land boundaries from the CIA’s World Factbook
• Wikipedia article on India

Other Wikipedia articles:

• Campanology
• Tulip mania
• The match between Coventry City and Bristol City in 1977

Reference:

• In the human brain, the more often a pathway between neurons is activated, the stronger that pathway becomes, which makes it more likely to be activated in the future

Permission:

• Wikipedia content licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Every time you think of summer, you think of ice cream.

Every time you’re asked to think of an animal, your mind goes to an elephant, never a bat, or a penguin, or an octopus.

Every time you think of Uncle Mike, you immediately think of that time in Marrakesh when... well, you know the story.

How does Open Web Mind capture this core characteristic of mind, that some connections are stronger than others?

You might think the answer’s obvious.

We simply assign a strength to each connection, right?

Wrong.

It turns out that assigning a strength to each connection won’t work.

Here’s what will.

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No?

Well, I’m not surprised.

It’s a long time since the web was the open medium we were promised.

Who closed the web?

You might be surprised at some of the culprits...

...and at how close we might be to breaking the web open again.

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You can’t do much on the web these days without giving your real name, your social security number, your driver’s licence and your fingerprints, without some shadowy mechanism dictating what you can and can’t say and see, without some nameless functionary nudging you away from what you want to do towards what they want you to do.

How did this happen?

When the web was invented, it promised open connection between every person on the planet.

Who broke this promise?

Here are the four forces that have worked to close the web...

...and how Open Web Mind will open it right back up again.

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References:

• Companies like The New York Times, Barnes & Noble, eBay and Amazon, not to mention little known phone companies, health companies, travel companies and even florists, were willing to payAOL and CompuServe hundreds of millions of dollars to bring their content inside the walls of their gardens.
• The FBI directed Twitter to censor certain ideas, certain stories and certain people.
• In some countries, politicians fund independent media, too, paying journalists a substantial portion of their salaries.
• In some countries, politicians pass clumsy legislation dictating what tech companies can and can’t show us in our feeds.
• Governments can, at a whim, hit tech companies with massive finesfor arcane transgressions, force them to fund local media, and strangle them with antitrust lawsuits.
• We need to be eternally vigilant.

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So what is an edge in Open Web Mind?

Here’s a clue: I just told you everything you need to know about edges.

Well... almost everything.

In Open Web Mind, just as a node can represent anything, an edge can represent any connection between nodes.

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So, you might be wondering, what exactly is a node in Open Web Mind?

Here’s the answer to that question in one word:

Anything.

In Open Web Mind, a node can represent any thing.

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Here, in seven words, is the essence of Open Web Mind.

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What if, instead of mindlessly browsing, we could be thinking?

What if, more than a mere collection of pages, the web could be our collective mind? 

Open Web Mind is a radical reinvention of the way we capture, explore and share our knowledge. 

Welcome to humanity's mind.

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