Future Cyberspace
will try to foresee what cyberspace will look like in the coming decades
..cyberspace..
1982 July, William Gibson
“Burning Chrome”
Omni, volume 4, number 10, page 72:
I knew every chip in Bobby's simulator by heart; it looked like your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the ‘Cyberspace Seven’, but I'd rebuilt it so many times that you'd have had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon.
..Cyberpunk..
;-)
the notional environment in which communication over computer networks occurs
== InternetS
(looking back)
bikeshedding
Subject: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...
From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 16:14:10 +0200
Parkinson, Cyril Northcote
November 19, 1955. "Parkinson’s Law".
The Economist.
work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
Parkinson's Law – and other studies in administration
by C. Northcote Parkinson, Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, third edition 1957 pp. 29–30
In the third chapter, "High Finance, or the Point of Vanishing Interest", Parkinson writes about a finance committee meeting with a three-item agenda:[1] The first is the signing of a £10 million contract to build a reactor, the second a proposal to build a £350 bicycle shed for the clerical staff, and the third proposes £21 a year to supply refreshments for the Joint Welfare Committee.
The £10 million number is too big and too technical,
and it passes in two and a half minutes.
The bicycle shed is a subject understood by the board, and the amount within their life experience, so committee member Mr. Softleigh says that an aluminium roof is too expensive and they should use asbestos.
Mr. Holdfast wants galvanised iron.
Mr. Daring questions the need for the shed at all.
Mr. Holdfast disagrees.
Parkinson then writes: "The debate is fairly launched. A sum of £350 is well within everybody's comprehension. Everyone can visualise a bicycle shed. Discussion goes on, therefore, for forty-five minutes, with the possible result of saving some £50. Members at length sit back with a feeling of accomplishment."
Parkinson then described the third agenda item, writing: "There may be members of the committee who might fail to distinguish between asbestos and galvanised iron, but every man there knows about coffee – what it is, how it should be made, where it should be bought – and whether indeed it should be bought at all. This item on the agenda will occupy the members for an hour and a quarter, and they will end by asking the Secretary to procure further information, leaving the matter to be decided at the next meeting."
(looking back more)
esotericists
plural form of esotericist
ἐσωτερικός (esōterikós)
“belonging to an inner circle”
from ἐσωτέρω (esōtérō)
“further inside”
those who know
"all inner's of"
inner
farther within, further inside
the intimate structure of matter
(today)
centralized cyberspace
X is an sub-unified command
subordinate to Y
and
centralizes command of cyberspace operations
Y is an subordinate to Z
bikeshedding + centralized cyberspace + esotericists
Abziehkreisel
(spinning top)
(Spinning Tops Built to Last and Spin Forever)
Abziehkreisel
STEHAUFKREISEL
(tippe top)
centre of mass
does not coincide with the
geometrical centre of sphere
Abziehkreisel
STEHAUFKREISEL
F causes a moment M, which can be imagined to have vector components M1,2 and M3, the latter along the axis of symmetry e3. Likewise, the angular momentum L has components L1,2 and L3. In the beginning, L3 = L and L1,2 = 0. Then, due to instability, F originates and the resulting M3 tends to decrease L3, while M1,2 starts to increase L1,2. As L remains constant, the angle θ of the top’s inclination will grow to fulfil proper vector addition. When θ = π/2, L3 = 0 and L1,2 = L. Then the rotation along e3 changes sign and, again through the action of M1,2 and M3, L3 starts to grow at the cost of L1,2. Finally, the stem will scrape the surface and through the action of a new frictional force F’ with moment M’ the top will lift itself up and strive towards a stable, though extinguishing, rotation on the stem.
In fact, the component L1,2 is extinguished by the new M1,2 and L3 finally becomes equal to L.
bikeshedding => not spending time on not (simple to understand and "soft")
esotericist(s) => only few, who understand the intimate structure of matter, are needed to run complex systems [or systems of systems]
centralized command of distributed networks => decision made using bikeshedding !?
Future Cyberspace
CyCon15 :: Future Cyberspace
By Hillar Aarelaid
CyCon15 :: Future Cyberspace
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