Colloquium at Stanford
The Unfinished Revolution

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:12:54 -0800

From:   Bernie DeKoven
bdk@cyberverse.com
Reply-To: unrev-II@onelist.com

To:     unrev-II@onelist.com

Subject:   Augment Human Intelligence

Rod,

There were two items in your thought-provoking message that particularly caught my conceptual eye:

...integrating time and information" to produce knowledge.

...and


Getting people to give it a try, however, is not easy because, in the beginning, producing useful "intelligence" requires a specialist, like a "scribe" was needed to help people get going with alphabet technology in an earlier era.


I found those items provocative because they echoed so strongly my findings as I go about investigating, promoting, and exploring the art of "technography."

Technography is an approach I developed for the real-time facilitation of collaborative work. It rests on the social and technical skills of a technographer -- a high tech version of a scribe who acts as a kind of conduit between the group and a computer. Using a dynamic outliner and a shared screen (projected, via data projector in a face-to-face meeting, broadcast via application-sharing over the web) the technographer captures, organizes and manages the information flow during a meeting.

The fact that this intervention works so well in real time is due, to my understanding, to its ability to, as you say, integrate time and information to produce knowledge", or at least a shared understanding.

I don't mean to belabor the parallels here, and you can read much more about this role on my website at this role on my website at http://www.coworking.com I mean rather to echo your observations by sharing how the growing success of my work so clearly validates Doug's insights, and vice versa.

Sincerely,

The Technography Center

Bernie

Bernie DeKoven
http://www.coworking.com
 http://www.deepfun.com