Sumant
Fascinating stuff. I am interested in different definitions of information, intelligence, knowledge and wisdom.
And, then the translation across to technology.
When you say, "the future will be in ad hoc creation of context", how does that translate into a specific technology -- am curious.
Mike Soear

Sumant

Thanks for the mind-f. The next quantum leap in technology will likely to take us to a place that we cannot predict. I agree with you that structure inhibits organic growth and discover. On the other hand a certain amount of rigidity and controlled setting enables us to understand growth and progress and measure it. What sectors do you see such growth occurring in?

I believe more in the technology of the human brain, and the types of brains, organized to the best utility, as the finest potentialities for technology, that's where it's all from, afterall.
Here's a model:

The creative. The organizer. The skeptic. A friend told me about a new kind of brainstorming using these three kinds of people. First, the creatives get into the room and explode paradigms, do their thing, just bounce off the walls, with ideas (that's where I come in, quite naturally). Then the organizers come in and they pick out what their logical minds see as doable and lay it out as a tenative plan. Then the skeptics come in (all separate, mind you, or there'd be WAR) and tear things apart, deconstruct the potential flaws in the ideas the logical models. Then the creatives come in and cycle it again. I'm not sure where it ends, with a process or product, I suppose. Can't we apply this to the idea of quantum leaps in the design rooms of technology, flying off the wall, being wild? It would help. Immensely. In government too. Soooo much rigidity exists in the fields of education, government, business and religion. This model, the ego-safe creative model, would revolutionize the wave of technology, as well as the use and application of knowledge. Thanks to my brilliant friend Stan Kendz, in Fairfield, Iowa, for this model.

Jay - think of networks being created as and when needed and then destroyed once their job is done. An example of a step in that direction is Voice over IP (compared to the old telephone network). Maybe compute resources can be created on this ad hoc basis where they are logical (or virtual) resources available to a user irrespective of where they exist physically. There are early signs of this already happening in localised environments.

John - i like the way the model is laid out. Hopefully, there is an end point and something real comes out of the process. Most of the time, i end up in the role of the enforcer - forcing a closure to the constant cycle that most creative people like to stay in and (hopefully) extracting a product that appeals to a market from it (talking as an investor and board member in a lot of very young technology companies :))

Sumant, Thought you might be the one to answer this question: Since I've been going to this blog, I've been getting more popup boxes; what do you do to prevent these? Also wondered if anyone else was getting these? Not too bright with a computer, Patzi

Patzi,
Not sure if the popups are due to coming to this site.

In any case, you can download toolbars from Google, Yahoo etc. which have pop up blockers in them.

Interesting site, and very organized too. Good work. Small brain blog: http://skys.jp/blog/archives/200504/06-1228.php , Port aBuayar

Interesting site, and very organized too. Good work. Small brain blog: http://skys.jp/blog/archives/200504/06-1228.php , Port aBuayar

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