- From: Laufer <laufer@globo.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:31:34 -0300
- To: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>
- Cc: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
I love Kraftwerk. Thank you for the link. Computers, Science, Art. Cheers, Laufer 2010/4/8 Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>: > Danny Ayers wrote: > >>Unashamed madness. >> >>In the sense of Kraftwerk, good tune. >> >>Pop music only very few people listen to. But notice when you hear >>"industrial ambient" in the television programmes. Millions of people >>hear that. >> >>The genres of technology seem very similar to me. >> >>Bear with me, >> >>Although we see good songs in the NoSQL or something, coders basically >>wind up using things like RDF in their day-today life. This is how you >>connect machine to humans (I had to say that to justify the subject >>line). > > Then this might have been a better match: > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVAiXNnauM> > > It's in our decade (although the original tune is much older), and it's > provided publicly and in an open way, and it finds itself in close touch > with the masses, and, apparently, the masses really do love it. > > For those not familiar with the German language (it's Kraftwerk, afterall): > The song is about data, computers, and a lot of related and interrelated > real world issues. But let's forget about the technicalities for the moment, > it's simply a great song, isn't it? :-) > > Enjoy, > Michael > >> >>I've lost that thread now, but I do reckon there is one. >> -- .. . . .. . . .. . . .. .. .. .
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