How do you organize music? By genre? Artists? Instruments? Is it a process that can be universalized, or is it personal?
Organizing music is the fundamental problem that the Music Genome Project attempts to solve. Named after the Human Genome Project, the Music Genome Project is a "sophisticated taxonomy of musical information"; it uses a controlled set of vocabularies to classify music and helps connect people to music they love, including ones they don't know yet.
Recently in class, Bob mentioned the Ambient Orb, a glass lamp which changed colour to indicate the current status of stock market trends, weather forecasts, or traffic levels.