[p2p-research] Google's wave ends email?

[Michel Bauwens]

Thanks for all these comments ...  Is there anyone who could piece together
Ryan and Nathan's comments for a blog posting?

your assistance would be really appreciated!

and Nathan: I can't wait for your 'pretty clear general view' as well, hope
you can describe the path to the fridge ...

Michel

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Nathan Cravens <knuggy at gmail.com> wrote:

> This buzz arrived just as I've pieced together a pretty clear general view
> on how we might go about creating an entirely post-scarcity environment.
> What timing! Wave is the sort of hyperaggregator that can adapt to what I
> have in mind--in part expressed below. 'Wave' is a useful term to describe
> "collaberative design" in one word--fab.
>
> Conversations are easier to track in Wave. It is backwards compatible with
> e-mail, so a conversation in a wave can remain sent as an e-mail. When it
> becomes a better tool in practice, and folk continue to speak well of it, we
> may be witnessing here the last of e-mail conversation.
>
> What I'm most interest in is Wave's ability to port in user generated
> programs, like software and hardware design ware, and view within the
> wave--from birth to the very moment--who made changes to a design and how
> the design changed over time. By viewing a design history, we might find
> something worked better previously than existing. Photo sharing or
> collaborative essay writing are simple examples, but I'm more interested in
> seeing how this tool is used in collaborative infrastructure or systems
> design itself.
>
> An infrastructure map might begin with the layout of NYCResistor's
> hackerspace graphically represented as a floorplan after a wave search for
> "NYCResistor." This layout is itself a series of waves, one wave for
> 'MakerBot' another for the 'Lazor X', ect. The waves 'MakerBot' and 'X
> Lazor' may be generated without knowing about NYCResistor at all, but
> because NYCResistor uses these tools, the established waves describing the
> MakerBot and X Lazor are more detailed and adopted with a special wave layer
> for Resistor's particular tools. The devices then, based on user
> preferences, communicate with the wave to report a tool's activity.
> Something like that would aid Resistor's collaberation with our friends at
> Skynet--I'm all for that.
>
> This program will help encourage collaboration by enabling the place for
> any variety of app useful to generating a collaberative design. It will
> encourage competition for reputation by enabling users to observe design
> progress. The aggregations of these apps into a single program means more
> potential for the cross pollination mentioned in the NYCResistor example.
>
> Ryan says:
>
>> A cynic could say that corporations will always be untrustworthy and that
>> the cheat will always wait until the most fateful moment.  An optimist would
>> say that we are entering a new age of openness and sharing while still
>> recognizing markets and innovation deserve financial recognition where
>> desired.  The truth is probably somewhere inbetween.
>
>
> This is a very smart move if we look at Google's stock price decline over
> the past two years. What I see Wave affectively doing is managing Google's
> risk by open sourcing the ware, making it a general enough app to add user
> generated widgets, including Google's apps, so when the firm fails, the tool
> remains usable under increasing post-scarcity conditions.
>
> Google:
> http://www93.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=google+
>
> I see this program being used to locate a variety of previous discussions
> here and on other lists formed into functional programs inspired by the
> verbiage: like Michel's F/OS Fridge. ;)
>
>
> Nathan
>
>
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