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Software for thinking together
https://www.truthmapping.com/a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://cognexus.org/id41.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Dialogu...Others: http://barcamp.org/w/page/4722...
An idea: "The argumentative theory of reasoning" (Humans may be adapted to find solutions to problems and approach the truth through arguing with each other in small groups)
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Mod parent up: delegated voting
Hadn't heard of the delegated voting idea before. Very interesting!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...Personally, I think we also need better tools for collective sensemaking about important public and private issues, like I led a workshop on here:
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Re:Installation is the big bottleneck these days
Good points. I've been feeling more-and-more lately that "if something does not have a URL, it is broken".
And Minecraft worlds don't have URLs. Voxel.js world do. A simple seeming difference, but the implications are huge about sharing, discovering, mashups, archiving, expanding, and so on.
Here is a discussion where I explain that idea in more detail, that it's not so much the idea of a desktop app that is broken as the idea of an app without book-markable exchangeable URLs:
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Compendium is terrific
Video of me using Compendium in real time to create a concept map of a discussion: http://barcamp.org/w/page/47221410/Desktop%20or%20Mobile%20or%20Web
No video, but here is the concept map made in real-time with Compendium in another workshop at the 2011 Capitol Camp:
http://barcamp.org/w/page/47222818/Tools%20for%20Collective%20Sensemaking%20and%20Civic%20Engagement -
Compendium is terrific
Video of me using Compendium in real time to create a concept map of a discussion: http://barcamp.org/w/page/47221410/Desktop%20or%20Mobile%20or%20Web
No video, but here is the concept map made in real-time with Compendium in another workshop at the 2011 Capitol Camp:
http://barcamp.org/w/page/47222818/Tools%20for%20Collective%20Sensemaking%20and%20Civic%20Engagement -
Re:Try BARcamp
It's BarCamp you silly goose. I would highly recommend organizing BarCampChicago similar to how we organized BarCampAustin 2 this past March. I mc'd most of the day and helped get presentations rolling and the likes. We got some of the companies at SXSWi to open up bar tabs (Microsoft, thanks to Chris Bernand, pitched in $1000 that went pretty quick, thanks to Dave Morrin from Facebook for the $500 tab and burritos too). Towards the end of the evening Soulhat played a show and we all ended up having a good time.
The most important bit with a BarCamp is that the community should be behind bringing it into existence, instead of waiting for USENIX, WWDC, or an O'Reilly conference, make your own! Have fun
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Re:Would like to clarify a few things.
Thank you. I wish so too, but I take some consolation in the fact that, of the last nine days, I have been fortunate enough to spend three in the company of first 100 people, and then 350 people professionally involved in web development, across the spectrum from coding to marketing, all of whom are seriously dedicated to the cause of accessible web design. There really is change afoot in the industry, and those who fail to change will fall by the wayside. Andy Budd said it best:
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Re:I've always wonderedHm, you may be interested in this: Predicting mid-range global futures (2005-2050).
In particular, it talks about the Delphi method, and shows how Japan predicted, in the 1970's:- Possibility to a certain degree of working at home through the use of TV-telephones, telefaxes, etc. (forecast: 1998)
- Acquisition of observation data from unmanned probes around Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and outside the solar system. (1999)
- Development of optical communication technology that can realize substantial savings in the use of copper. (1999)
- Possibility of external fertilization or artificial womb. (2001)
- Widespread use of heart transplant from human being by resolving problems such as transplant immunity, rejection and donor. (2001)
- Practical use of rapid-transit railway using iron rail and iron wheel, which can run at 300 km/h. (2006)
- Development of artificial ear. (2007)
They were rated at 64-71% accurate, which is not bad, considering that you're jumping out 30 years into the future, and making specific and useful predictions.
This is much better than psychic's prediction, unless the psychic happened to have an article on Moore's Law hidden beneath the table.
While there are a lot of well-reported predictions that are basically bunk, and even though the public has fixated on images that make no sense, there are also sources that are doing their homework, and are actually well researched. It's sad that the good stuff goes unreported.
All this said, even near-term futures are very exciting and interested, and people simply don't know about what's happening. I've personally worn a NOMAD headset, for example. Anyone can have one, for $2,000. These devices are certain to get cheaper, and will be in color, within 5 years. They're great devices, and I personally think that they'll be as common as bluetooth headsets are now. Bluetooth headsets will get cheaper, and become much more useful, as wireless networks expand, (as they are sure to,) and Internet access becomes much more pervasive.
The "Camp" phenomenon happening right now is exploding. Investments in communications and intelligence technology is leading to this sort of thing, and the work of these sorts of things is further compounded into more communications and intelligence technology, and the spread of the technology.
Another poster here rightly said it: Even if predictions turn out false, they are still extremely useful. In many cases, we predict so we can make sure that they turn out false. To ensure that they come out false. Every single human being makes predictions about the course of their life, so that they can steer themselves in one direction, or to avoid another. It would be very surprising to me if human societies did not engage in this activity. (This is scenario planning, and used by just about every corporation and government.)
Technology prediction in some ways is the easiest thing to predict, looking into mid-range futures (the hardest territory.) If you put your money on Moore's Law, you're doing far better than (say) betting on baseball games, or who wins the presidency.