Friday, July 23, 2004
Anticipatory
Infrastructure
July 23, 2004
Eforum communication from Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu
Sodas
Hi Marcin,
I am thinking about your requirements. I am extracting and restating your statements - please correct
me!
You want to organize the knowledge by which we can be
"productive" members of society.
But this does not mean that we need more "things". It means that we need them to be nourishing,
and especially for the infrastructure to nourish us at every step.
You want to:1) collect information on the state of the art2) apply
that information in your pilot projects3) organize all of that information so
that it is easy to access
You want an open working together. You favor a bootstrapping method where each step in each activity
brings its own clear, direct value. This
allows participants to focus more on the particular work they choose to
do. You work especially with
participants who are of high and growing consciousness.
You want to also document the best tools for your work, and make
that available.
Is this summary OK?
I have thoughts on it.
Basically, I agree that it is crucial that each step be spiritually
nourishing - and this is I think a key part of the information. It is the "data field" that is the
common thread in all the data. Another
key part is the physical effect. So our
repository should show how they are intertwined. This intertwining is how there can be bootstrapping (or growing
resonance) between the physical and the spiritual. It is a key aspect to be mindful of, to learn and master. Likewise, in the "division of labor"
for assembling the information, each step needs to be its own reward, and give
some value directly to the one doing it.
This is the principle behind the diagram I have drawn.
I think that a key point to consider is that often the best way to
find information is to find the expert and converse with them. This is an opportunity to make much of the
information process a worthwhile investment in the sense of nourishing the
spirit. We might consider how to make
such queries mutually beneficial. It
can be, for example, part of the business model to honor those who are helping
with their knowledge. That might be
through an alternate currency. I think
that effective information systems need to be at least half human, otherwise we
are running in mental mazes trying to avoid each other, it is an anti-social,
anti-learning outlook.
Also, the state of the art for "tools for thinking" is
very low. On the other hand, it is not
difficult to create useful tools from scratch.
The problem is discovering the usage patterns that really work, and also
finding an effective division of labor for your community.
Thinking,
Andrius
Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.ltms@ms.lt