A few days ago I went to watch Avatar, a movie written and directed by James Cameron, which I regard as one of my favorite filmmakers (Terminator, The Abyss, Aliens, Piraña).

I’m not going to review the movie, far from it, but I found very interesting how the Pandora Villagers could extract and share information from their deceased ancestors and alive people. It is interesting for one reason, the strong relationship with the current social networks and the possible future ones. The Pandora Villagers used the own nature as a database, which it was open, interoperable and linked, that means, they could used it in any physical media. Villagers could access to the information in any time and way.

The huge amount of data generated by users everyday in social networks cover a large percentage of Internet data, becoming an important source of information and knowledge, but We still live with hermetic databases, not interoperable social networks (except for desktop applications or social networks with the same owner), where the rich dataset (information) is reserved for popular social networks. This problem has wanted to fight with many projects (in conjunction with the Semantic Web, Linking Open Data and FOAF) with the main idea of the open and interoperable web. However, these projects are about 10 years and still have not been consolidated.

The nature of the Villagers to use the data  it is a bliss that we could see in our planet earth in a near future if It existed a general policy for each social networking sites, and not only create their own policies. I’d love to see someday the real and nature combination of Ubiquitous Computing, Augmented reality and Cloud Computing into social networks, for the simple reason: being a part of EVERYTHING and not just a THING.

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