Beyond Applications — Introducing the Planetary Datasphere (Part 1)

By Orri Erling
Orri Erling’s Weblog

This is the first in a short series of blog posts about what becomes possible when essentially unlimited linked data can be deployed on the open web and private intranets.

… I will look at what effects the birth of a sort of linked data stratum can have on end-user experience, application development, application deployment and hosting, business models and advertising, and security; how cloud computing fits in; and how back-end software such as databases must evolve to support all of these.

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