From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sat Jul 10 1999 - 16:46:13 MDT
I'd like to continue to encourage participation in the Timeline to 2020
project:
http://crit.org/http://www.textropians.com/Timeline/home.htm
(That's the CritLink URL to the project homepage). I think we can get
significant value from the project if you'll take the time to post even a few
comments in the areas about which you feel you are most knowledgeable or have
the strongest opinions. Here's some previously posted material regarding the
procedure for posting comments:
For now, all commentary should be through Foresight's Crit Link system.
Links in the Timeline web pages will lead you to Crit's view of the site and
give you access to the Crit tools for inserting your comments, ideas and
projections into the project. General comments on the specific developments
can be tagged essentially anywhere in the text of the page or to the page as
a whole.
Our goal of collecting specific projections for dates or ranges of dates when
a development will become possible, available, common or ubiquitous requires
a little care using Crit Link. To tag a comment to a particular year in the
timeline tables you will find at the individual development pages, it is
necessary to paste in the particular year in the "target phrase" area and THE
TEXT FROM THE WHOLE LINE OF YEARS into the "optional context phrase". Thus,
to tag a comment that you believe the development "Software Agents as
Autonomous Actors" will be "Common" by the year 2020, you should paste the
text from the year cell for that point ("2020 - C") into the "target phrase"
Crit field and the text from the whole line for the year 2020 ("2020 - P 2020
- A 2020 - C 2020 - U") into the "optional target phrase". Although this
seems a little kludgey, Crit requires the second step in order to have enough
context to "know" where to place its meta-tag. Because Crit will open a new
window for the commenting process, it's easy to flip back and forth between
the project site and the Crit commentary page to grab the text you need to
properly tag your comment.
We are also looking for feedback on improving the categories. An example is
battery technology. None of us in the group that developed the site knew
enough to come up with a good metric for developments in this area, so we
only have an item called "Advanced Batteries". If you can offer a refinement
of an existing category such as this one, or a wholly new category that we've
missed, use the links available at the site to make these kinds of helpful
suggestions.
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
http://users.aol.com/gburch1 -or- http://members.aol.com/gburch1
"Civilization is protest against nature;
progress requires us to take control of evolution."
-- Thomas Huxley
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