I have been thinking some more about my design and been reading some interesting papers the nice people at UCI gave me when I visited the other day to seed my literature review.
I realized, there is a huge issue which I have overlooked so far: delay and asynchronicity.
The web changed my life. I can't live without wikipedia or Google. But ultimately, I'm disappointed. Almost every day, the web lets me down.
What do web users do for a living? What do we get paid to do that makes it worth giving us a web browser? Me, I make connections. I take disparate ideas and connect them in (hopefully) useful ways. Others do it with people, or cash instead of ideas. But we're all connectors.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), was a brilliant German philosopher. These 38 Stratagems are excerpts from "The Art of Controversy", first translated into English and published in 1896.
Schopenhauer's 38 ways to win an argument are:
Det er egentlig forunderlig hvor langt man er nået i det brugerdrevne kommunikation, for at holde samtalen igang på en positiv facon.
Men smartphones, blogs og wikies sammenbinder design af idéer på blå markeder på evolutionære måder.
Mange af de unge kan følge med og for dem er det et naturligt element at bruge tablets og smartsphones, medens vi grå "elefanter" sætter det fysiske nærværd i højsædet, for at kunne "se" den man samtaler med. Et webcam kunne selvfølgelig gøre det samme - men ikke helt på den oldnordiske måde. Derfor eksisterer Kloge Hoveders Netværk på deres egen måde!
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