360-2020: knitting a Conscious Web
Today there is some brouhaha on the Times threads about Lord Stern, author of a key UK climate change report, who is now saying that we will need to become vegetarian to combat climate change. Here’s the article link:
* http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6891362.ece
So far this has attracted 550+ comments which is substantially more than the number of people who commented about intelligence and IQ tests and how we can improve our collective intelligence. Interesting, hmmn that people are more interested in going online to refute his points about methane production from bovines and that he’s producing more “hot air” than a cow.
Never mind, I’ll continue with my journey towards harnessing and increasing collective intelligence.
INTERCONNECTING DIVERSE DISCIPLINES
So when not architecting and implementing business strategies or in code bunker, there are three hobbies I allocate time to:
(1.) travelling;
(2.) cooking; and
(3.) knitting
Each has a discipline, a methodology and a culture that can inform the way strategy and code are approached. This may not be immediately obvious but they all require the following:
* planning
* sourcing of materials
* application processes
* troubleshooting
* end experience
and these also apply to strategy and code. There are transferrable skills from each which can be cross-applied and synergized into project management, creative problem-solving and the re-imagination of solutions by gaining alternative perspectives on the original problem.
We often hear the phrases:
* “What Company X’s cooking in its labs.”
* “We’re weaving the Web.”
Well, at the moment I’m knitting a rainbow-colored gilet like so, including with cabling:
Plus weaving 360-2020 profile pages like so — with something called a Navigator and the types of customizable features I’d want on a social network:
The key difference between 360-2020 and other social media applications and platforms is that 360-2020 aims to be a seed for the development of a Conscious Web.
In the same way that when I can’t find some knitting in the stores that suits my utility, I go right ahead and knit what I really want from scratch, since the social media innovations to-date aren’t doing the types of things I believe they should do (enabling us to differentiate between content — including whatever’s marketed and advertised; including consumers in the production value chain; and contextualizing the consequences of that marketing with consumption that affects climate change)…………I’m weaving it from scratch.
No, there are no plans to create yet another socmed cool app that’s fun, but (ultimately) serves no serious purpose. There are also no plans to do a Lord Stern and advise everyone to become vegetarian; I trialled it for July 2009 and would never recommend or impose permanent vegetarianism on anyone.
There are much more intelligent policies and pragmatic solutions we can innovate — if we would properly analyse and apply our own human and collective intelligence by synergizing both, :*).
