An app for that
Two things cannot be rightly put together without a third;
there must be some bond of union between them.
And the fairest bond is that which makes
the most complete fusion of itself and the things which it combines;
and proportion is best adapted to effect such a union. -Plato
The poetic hymn
“There’s an app for that.”
Underneath the hood
[black box matrix] + [secret sauce] = [recombinator], par excellence)
Code name: The Enterra
Prior art: An iPhone app, social networking recombinator.
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After reading Umair Haque Bubblegeneration link: 2006 The Economics of Peer Production, I think I finally get it. I see this Peer Production coming, but it will really only take, here in the US, as those generations from ages middle thirties on up, begin to let diversity generate in the generations of the future, the long now.
Where he talks about: “In atomized value chains, the same technology that explodes the middle commoditizes the old edges (example: cheap connectivity enables blogging). Industry profitability migrated to new edges.” really hits home. I would guess, without the ability to discuss this out loud, this is how communism was able to “bond” with capitalism. In a way, China was an “atomized” society, and corporations went for the “edges”. Then as he goes on to say, “Peer production communities are vertically integrated atomized value chains…” and it is this vertically integrated social system that allows totalitarism to survive, because they are vertical already. So corporations and state both move to the outside and the atomized center becomes a structure, without structure, so to speak. It would be interesting to see what an app built on this would look like, something for the edges to communicate with the atomized middle, perhaps?
I’ve dropped the notion of an iPhone app, and moved to designing an operational data store. The goal remains, though: a way for the edges to communicate with the atomized middle.
Operational Data Store (ODS), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_data_store
I am not sure how that works (ODS), but from the Wikipedia link it sounds like something made for the iPhone.