| Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:34:51 -0700 | 03 00050 61 00071001 |
Mr. Morris E. Jones
Business Unit Manager
morris.jones@intel.com
Cable Network Operation
Intel Corporation
350 East Plumeria; Mail Stop CHP3-105
San Jose, CA 95124
| Subject: | Time as Organizing Method, Gelernter |
Dear Morris,
This came across the transom today; seems related to our discussion last night about SDS advantages. Jack Park, who is sort of the lead architect for Doug Engelbart's KM project seed team at SRI, has cited Gelernter previously. Today, he directs attention to a new article. You have to plow through a lot of standard fluff from the beginning to get to a core advance he proposes.
Last night, Bill indicated based on experience at PG&E that SDS has an advantage of "organization" that is missing from other methods. We considered briefly how to clarify this perceived value. There was discussion that a secret of SDS might be the design aligns with the human mind's innate process of organizing information based on time, and thereby builds chronologies of sequence showing cause and effect that improve daily management, which is missing from other tools and methods.
I think this will take you to the page where Gelernter focuses on the advantage of using time as primary organizing methodology, which may support Bill's point in our discussion last night.
Gelernter is credited with being a leading computer thinker/designer, pundit and "futurist"; however, he gives no indication of how to implement this design criteria. He provides no scenario, nor link to a body of information organized by time, to illustrate how his insight might improve handling of daily working information to improve earnings, and solve world problems, which are corollary objectives in the private and public arenas.
Gelernter says he has a commercially successful implementation, but gives no examples to show how it works, or that it does work. Since we have an implementation that works, which nobody seems to want, one wonders about the working definition Gelernter uses for "successful."
Just wondering, though, if Gelernter's explanation points to an emerging environment that forms a new market, within the meaning of a disruptive technology, discussed on 990527, based on integrating time with information to yield knowledge management for solving information overload, which each day gets worse? Gelernter does note that right now people are working around problems caused by lack of organization. He indicates ignorance and covering up builds demand for a solution, similar to Aristotle's point about the compounding effect of inaccurate understandings, discussed in NWO...
Does anyone see, or sense, a growing demand in day-to-day work? Does the current economic boom producing sunshine profits render this nominal market advantage moot, because "intelligence" is not a big enough "care about," i.e., nobody cares because everybody is subject to the same problem, and a solution seems not worth pursuing because Microsoft hasn't produced it, so it must not be possible?
Sincerely,
THE WELCH COMPANY
Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net