We are currently witnessing the maturing of the web from a channel for technical distribution and communication to a new, formally independent medium. Social software enables individuals to articulate, organize and communicate themselves in a digitally addressable way, and with the rise of reasonable Semantic Web concepts this is happening in a language shared by social as well as technical systems.

As more and more walls are being torn down between humans and machines, we must ask "What is the role of protocols and algorithms in the emerging field of synergetic intelligence?"