9. add the Internet and the Web
Databases
Semantics
Code
Hypertext
Content
10. so, this means…
I don’t really know what to think.
But, I do spend a lot of time considering how
things are alike and how they are different—
especially as it relates to information that is online.
And I think about the teams that make it all
possible and how they collaborate.
11. what I want to say & consider
There is a causal relationship between what we
make and how we work. Is it bi-directional,
faceted?
The digitization and disintegration of our
artifacts has a profound impact on how the
enterprise must work. Classical organizational
hierarchies can’t support this work---we need a
new, quantum, object-oriented model
22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif
Film - 1915
The New York Times, from an interview with D. W. Griffith
“The time will come, and in less than 10 years, when the
children in the public schools will be taught practically
everything by moving pictures…Imagine a public library of
the near future, for instance. There will be long rows of
boxes of pillars, properly classified and indexed, of course.
At each box a push button and before each box a seat.”
the possibility
23. what are we digerati doing?
what we do when we make “online”
25. our need
To manifest the fullness of ourselves and our
organizations online.
Hello, world. It’s me, us, we.
Talk to me. Hear me. See me.
Buy me.
26. our possibility
“On the one hand information wants to be expensive,
because it’s so valuable. The right information in the
right place just changes your life. On the other hand,
information wants to be free, because the cost of
getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So
you have these two fighting against each other.”
https://medium.com/backchannel/the-definitive-story-of-information-wants-to-be-free-a8d95427641c
Stewart Brand
28. the disintegration
Moving away from classically rendered instances to the
quantum delivery of information.
29. our challenge
The information that wants to be freed (or sold) by us is
embedded in silos and hierarchical, classical structures.
How do we get it out (in pieces)?
34. reductionism & holism
Coder “surgeons” must take a less reductionist view
understand the information “body.”
Designers and content makers must understand the logic
of information flow through the system.
The whole is greater AND the sum of its parts
36. digital experts are naturals
http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/anyone-can-learn-to-be-a-polymath/
37. 2. Manage the “call”
Organizations can call resources “just in time”, the way
that it calls for pieces of information or parts.
Is that an organizational model?
How many calls is too many calls?
What holds it all together
39. questions
In a quantum model:
What are “managers”?
What are “project managers”?
What are “analysts”?
Do those concepts even make any sense?
One of the things I’m the most proud of are my roots.
Columbia, the standards chapter talks about that.
New math and I really liked set theory and still do.
Moved out of Columbia into a more traditional school environment
Focus on arithmatic was really boring
Started out a music major but was seduced by philosophy and the the clarity of symbolic logic
Plus, there were all these musical modes that I had learned about in music theory and the early greek philosophers
Plato had so much to say about how the modes make you feel.
Making hypercard database of arias
Brother-in-law telling me to learn prolog
Pine to keep in touch with my boyfriend because this was the 1980s and we still had long distance phone calls.
Fine grained distinctions
Luckily, I could type.
Worked in the private sector learning about money management and marketing. This means that I saw a lot of groups and how they worked well and not so well together.
Worked at a large bank and they had no idea who reported to whom. I , imagine that…
I’m not just talking about agile or matrix management from the 1980s.
I’m talking about a fundamental deconstruction of the workplace.
I could be wrong, but let’s talk about it.
Monks made these
It was a testament to their faith, etc.
It’s not always as we think or believe
If there are a bunch of monks sitting around with not much else to do, what do you do?
Ada Lovelace – mathematician, 19th century
the first algorithm to be carried out by a machine
Lots of ideas about communities of artisans or slave labor.
Do the political models come first…
Does it matter
What comes first. What we make or how we make it
Two theories around how the pyranmis
All of it – but mostly the possibility
The means to make it
A pressing concern
A power struggle – space race
A vision of what could be…
And of course it’s all three.
The need
The possibility
The technology
To have everything be everywhere at any time
Written
Moveable
Email
Fax
Typewriter
It’s not real until we call it.
Pick lists
Synonyms and keywords
Hierarchies
Faceted taxonomies
Ontologies
Not just the WCM but also social. As the tools deepen content makers need to understand the structured way that coders thing and
We are earth bounded…materially, bounded, analog trapped by our very nature of being physical
Coders should read the information they code around
Writers and front end developers have a functional understanding of how the code can manipulate information and imagery.
The industrial revolution took this tendency away from us. Let’s get it back.