These are notes I am working on towards an article.
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- all of these will see a future, but that future is divergent
WikiTheOpenSociety
or “WikiTheEqualizer?”
- changes in communication habits
- need for participation, and therefore openness
- increased flatness of social structures
- need and pain of transparency
- need for common habits and expectations
- evolution of common culture
WikiTheGraphOfIdeas
- dream: network ideas into basic parts
- DonaldNoyes?, principal modern avatar
- future in the SemanticWeb
- future in UserInterface? that supports spatial arrangement of ideas
WikiTheIntelligentSoil
- dream: you write something, come back a month later, and it’s evolved beyond you
- essentially, a gift exchange
- mutual review & criticism club
- exists at C2 and Meatball for cultural reasons
- lots of intentioned work, must be a core value
- analysis for another page
- WhyNobodyDeletesWiki?
- ChangeFailure
- what people are interested in
- …many ideas go into it)
WikiTheDictionary
- mention because WardCunningham? spoke it
- LinkLanguage
- WikiPedia
- dictionary – definition of words
- encyclopedia – facts about the world
- patterns – cybernetical modules embodying system knowledge
- names or code points for every idea (connects with WikiTheGraphOfIdeas)
WikiThePlatform
- scratch pad
- app server
- work tool
- file system
- CMS
see:
Conclusions
- Successes and Failures
- Can do and be all these things, but do and be all these things poorly.
- Predictions about efforts, where they will go
- Where from here?
- MB approach: conservative, intentional value of reworking
- tech route
- tech conservative reaction
- future worlds
See Also
Discussion
Hi Lion, this is an interesting page. The “wiki does everything poorly” shows how much our dreams are ahead of development and how much we may expect in the future. For we could just say “hey, that’s perfect, everybody can take notes and write to the web, that’s perfect, that’s it” and just walk on.
If dreaming, I would add a section WikiSocialEffects?, that contains that change in communication habits, the need for participation and therefore openness, the increased flatness of social structures, the need and pain of transparency, the need for common habits and expectations, the evolution of common culture, …
A bit late of me, but,… you’re absolutely right! I’ve included it here, right at the top.
Nice structure. I’d be happy to follow your thoughts on RêvesDeWiki.