A New Way to Connect?
February 17, 2011
We know that the world is changing fast. Attempts to manipulate technological innovations to serve our real and sometimes imagined needs continue to culminate in an expanding and incredibly profitable industry. What is a toy in the hands of some can be a tool for revolution in others.
A key element in the midst of this new world is connectivity, and the charge to control that aspect of the market is being led by semantics based software. Per a post on semanticweb.com, the newest figure to emerge in the fray is Thingworx, freshly launched from the Pennsylvania based company of the same name. On its site, Thingworx is described as
“… a complete, high level application that provides unprecedented efficiency and re-usability, allowing developers to focus on their unique business or vision…”. Russ Fadel, CEO and the company’s cofounder explains “Our search and query tools use semantic definitions to help people discover their way through information …we don’t tell people they are building a semantic model, but that’s what they did, to interact with data and functions of systems in ways that were almost impossible before.”
The idea of connection at this level is certainly exciting, albeit difficult to achieve. With projections for the number of devices in circulation possessing the ability to access one another hovering at the trillion mark over the next fourteen years, interest in conquering the obstacles that could prevent it should have a broad reach. As the way we engage information and how we can employ it evolves, so must the ability to share it. This cannot be accomplished without a major overhaul of the existing infrastructure. While Thingworx has been engineered to accommodate several types of information streams, it is still not ready for primetime. They, however, seem confident in the future of this new software despite the present limitations.
Sarah Rogers, February 17, 2011
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