July 16, 2001 | 03 00050 61 01071601 |
Mr. Jack Park
jackpark@thinkalong.com
Street address
Palo Alto, CA Zip
Subject: | Peer Review KM in POIMS |
Dear Jack,
The letter on April 16 expressed thanks for your comments on the explanation of KM that was added to POIMS on March 21. A few action items resulted from your review, which I have not previously pressed in deference to your busy schedule last April. No doubt you are still busy, but possibly there is time to address KM issues in relation to your work on Nexist, and/or to promote the book project you were discussing last March.
Did you see the explanation of advancing learning through better listening in the record on June 14? How does this align with your vision for using technology to improve education discussed in your letter on February 23, 2001?
Last week Stuart Harrow, a contact at DCMA, which is part of the Defense Department, mentioned that the study proposed in 1995 to show that SDS improves learning at the high school level, could strengthen marketing efforts in industry and government. This draws on the proposition that literacy is a powerful technology for augmenting intelligence, which is set out by Doug Engelbart as a goal for OHS/DKR. Stuart seems to feel there is renewed interest in literacy at this time at DOD. Such a study requires pulling together resources of money and research experts, plus gaining the interest of a school. Stuart at DCMA offered to support the effort. Not sure what this means, other than to comment on a proposal. His thought seemed to be that NSF or possibly the Department of Education (Federal and State) might contribute funding, maybe along with DOD. If so, some in the business community, might also support the effort.
In any event, does contributing to this effort interest you. Your work along a parallel path may justify investigating this idea advanced by DCMA.
Sincerely,
THE WELCH COMPANY
Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net
Today, however, globalization and faster information technology (IT) is
quickly reducing the safety valve of geography and culture by expanding the
base of issues, and shortening the time for a critical mass of error to
explode. The early warning is the report that too many people having too many
problems is causing productivity, earnings and stock prices to implode. Perhaps
this is mere Malthusian musing, not really an urgent complex problem that needs
attention. And yet, there is no escaping the fact that preparing SDS records
seems to uncover a lot of mistakes that are otherwise overlooked, within the
meaning of organic structure, which you asked about on June 22. There is no
reason to believe there are any fewer mistakes occurring in communications of
government and industry, where high risk activity is occurring, and where even
low risk activity is gestating. This adds urgency to augmenting intelligence
that can maintain alignment beyond the limits of human mental biology.
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