A Platform of Participation

[usarender]

The Technology Integration System

Together, by harnessing the power behind Mass Collaboration, Networked Intelligence, Lightweight Collaboration, Emergent Intelligence, Collective Genius, Open platforms, Open Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Global Innovation Networks, Decentralized Collaboration, Social Networking, Open Source, Crowd Sourcing, Peer Production, Social Production, Self-Organized Communities, and related concepts, we create together the Global Technology integration system, where everything is possible.


As Mr. Steele notes in his review of the book cited on our site -->>

"--90% of most R&D is internal and therefore lacking in the diversity that might come from the larger open network. This is *very* important. We need to build the World Brain and machine-speed translation and integration. Singapore, the Nordic nations, and even Estonia are ahead of the USA in this area. "" and --->>

"--top billion people are believed by some to have 2-6 spare hours a day during which they could be contributing knowledge and mentoring to the larger group. [Bottom five billion desperately need to be connected to the Net for free, and if we did that--for what we have spent on Iraq we could have given out 5 billion free cell phones--they would create infinite wealthy.] """

"--Four things I had *not* heard of: CollabNet, Scorecard, InnoCentive, and TakingITGlobal. ""

The review by Mr. Mc. Donald is fascinating and explains well the power of this mass collaboration ! See the link below and read his review ! You will be spell bound ! It starts by stating -->>

"Don Tapscott helped found the new economics associated with the Web with Digital Economy and Digital Capital. Wikinomics seeks the same goal using the features and functions of Web 2.0 as a basis for new forms of business collaboration and opportunity.

Tapscott takes numerous examples of next generation collaboration and social networks to point to the potential of the next generation of the web where customization, tailoring, self-publishing are viable business activities. The examples which range from assaying gold deposits to creating new rap albums are compelling. They lay the foundation for the principles of wikinomics that include:

BEING OPEN to allow customers, peers and others more access to your content, intellectual capital to collaborate and create something new.

PEERING to recognize that people form their own communities to create value, such as open source, and prefer these communities to traditional hierarchies that concentrate on control.

SHARING to overturn the economics of scarcity in favor of wide distribution and tailoring. In this regard, value comes not form distribution but from application of your products and services. "

"From these principles Tapscott discusses the following actors that will bring this world to the forefront of business:

1. Peer pioneers who will create the new business models based on wikinomics and found the companies that will displace both traditional companies and first generation web companies.

2. Ideagoras the creation of open forums where ideas are freely shared and developed based on attracting world class talent from around the connected world.

3. Prosumers who are a rising group of customers who will both produce and consume new products and services.

4. New Alexandrians the 'librarians' who will bring people together. In other words, the mavens that draw the Prosumers into the Ideagoras.

5. Platforms of Participation which is where the wiki economy will happen. These are places where companies open their products and platforms to enable collaboration and creation of next generation products and businesses.

6. Global Plant Floor recognizes that manufacturing has become more open and able to support mass customized products. This is essential for new products to get to market effectively.

7. Wiki Workplace the environment where people will collaborate in the future, connect and collaborate to create new sources of value. """

"Tapscott does a great job of illustrating the very real possibilities associated with the new social and collaborative capabilities provided by the web. These are real phenomenons that are currently cutting apart the music, media, financial services and just about every industry. Executives ignore these developments at their peril.

In this new global platform, there is space for each new Alexandrian, each new Peer Pioner and each new Ideagora.

Join this project and be a part of a revolution.

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[P.C.]

This describe a very positive vision, but have you thought about that it a very nice thing, if these 3D models could acturly be manufactored ?
Now if you offered a number of building methods ao you could promote, having a 3D projected house manufactired, while the computer can generate the intire structure for the house , that the low graphics in your world could be replaced with a detailed 3D model and from that, there would be some method, to cheaply and accurate produce, from the 3D model, most of the items, houses, everything asking a structure , as how 3dh offer to transform a solid model, into it's building parts in real in just one basic material .

[usarender]

Yes, I think this is an idea to explore. It could all be automated.

Working together with the greatest minds, there is no limit to what can be done in this 3D world.

If anyone else has any suggestions, can post them here. If you are able to contribute with technical skills to materialize this, it will certainly be appreciated.

Thanks to all participating.

[csintexas]

As far as I can tell there is nothing actually there. I would be surprised if you where able to attract computer programmers to build the thing for you (so that they could get in on the ground floor)

I think there are already several companies competing in that market here is a list: http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml

Second Life has already established that there is some economic opportunity in virtual worlds so now the bigger players will come in.

In your case "free" means free to spend hundreds of hours developing software. The problem is that software developers are already free to do that.

In other words if I could write code than there would be nothing to stop me from creating my own virtual world, why would I participate in yours? Providing my work for free would not appeal to me.

Personally I think the "Second Life" type concept of virtual reality is flawed and will never amount to anything more than an online social game.

What the world actually needs is more reality.

[P.C.]

"What the world actually needs is more reality."

I second that ,but I guess my messeage is difficult to deliver ,even here where the issue are understood ,there still are a mile wide gab before realy understanding what I talk about, but I try again ;

usarender say ;
"Perhaps we could have some kind of machine that can assemble Type V houses using the panels pattern produced by the detailed model software program, and it can automatically specify the rafters, sheathing to use etc and even automatically contact a crew to assemble it. "

Trust me when I tell that your answer make me so sad --- you asume that I talk about automating house building as it is, with rafts and plyboxes, exactly as how manual methods develobed into today's way of building a house, and that make me both sad and surprised --- why shuld we automate today's way to build ,if that is what you think I am saying , for what reson and where are the limits as, these limits is soon reached, at some not so distant point in time, you simply can not make today's methods more efficient, you can't destroy more old craftsmanship, splinter more endwood with new gadged universal steel fittings NO ; I am talking about New thinking, about Innovation about jettison the old methods and way's to build most structures, replace that with a new way to put things together.
You still don't understand, -- well it is difficult at first , that I agrea. But think about it , not the way you just suggested by just automating today's plywood box wall, not by automating building of a roof structure but replacing it all, with a brand new way to put things together , -- and scrap all the old way's -- as they are not fit for the computer, they don't force the computer to deliver an innovative result, if you just ask a house build as today, just faster ; no please look at 3dh and do it with an open mind, as if you have a world described in 3D entities , then you shuld not try build it with today's methods ,they are allready to slow and irasionell , something new ,something that will build a house or a bridge, a ship or a plane by same method; that is what cold bring these objects from the virtual worlds into reality --- not just fast oldfasion drafting by computer, but whole new way's to put things together.

[usarender]

P.C.

There will always be people in the world saying "it can't be done". The same was said of great men as Henry Ford and many others.

Now, virtual reality may not be new, but creating a global technological integration system is, together with the accompanying technological developments we have devised.

The power of mass collaboration can be revolutionary and there are still people who think there is "nothing there" and no way to compete with the players out there. How can anyone argue against the power of something that is globally supported, elaborated by the world community and the universal power of uniting the greatest minds together under a common cause ?

This is astronomical in size, never before possible, and will lead to incredible technological advances in the areas of robotics, virtual reality, human interaction, and global integration. To think otherwise is extreme hindered negativism based on an assumption the world will always be dominated by big interests, by money, by those who have economic power, by the liberal interest groups, by the troubling mass persecution of the global intellect, by the "slaying of the soul of dreams", by trying to kill a power so strong that it cannot be detained. This power is universal, it is unlimited. It is unending. It cannot be stopped. It is unavoidable.

Now, about trying to automate traditional building methods or not - building methods as used today are determined by availability, scarcity, economic demand, local supply, structural concerns, economic viability and the trend of things. What you suggest as a new method of construction sounds nice, but do architects today truly understand this?. We can only suggest what is obtainable within the current known human knowledge.

If we remember that in any endeavor in life there will always be the doom-sayers, those who say it cannot be done, those who say there will be none to do it, that it is not possible, that it is not feasible, that it is not worth the effort, that it is doomed to failure, that others or big players will dominate the market and we will fail and on and on.....then, and only then... can we succeed.

Not surprising to see these people have such an opinion, when they don't even understand the daily millionaire exchange of money in such mini-worlds, and how they are taking the world by a storm, with millions and millions of new users joining each day. It is obvious these people do not truly understand these new virtual worlds and the potential they have to unite the world in a way never before possible. They believe they are nothing more then a funny game... sincerely, they joke now. Just wait, their jaw will drop as this becomes a new global reality. Time will prove who is right. There is nothing that can deter the power of the global force behind this. Either we work together, unite and work for a common cause, or the world will be dominated by those who are manipulating us, using the worlds we create to their advantage, claiming ownership, and avoiding class lawsuit by forcing us to sign agreements before we enter such worlds not to bring charges of code sharing against them should we use their worlds. This is manipulation and infringement of software rights at its best!

[usarender]

I suggest we stop this negative thinking and begin to really debate on the power of this new virtual community. Some time should be spent on it's implications, before posting foolish comments or un-founded technical suggestions.

Here is an interesting link of developments of novels in this area ---->>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

An interesting science fiction novel, that maintains the same vision, the same prophecy of the future. A world where virtual reality is soo evolved, so advanced, that the Meta Universe is now free and can be acessed by virtual reality terminals -->>


""The Metaverse, a phrase coined by Stephenson as a successor to the Internet, constitutes Stephenson's vision of how a virtual reality-based Internet might evolve in the near future. Although there are public-access Metaverse terminals in Reality, using them carries a social stigma among Metaverse denizens, in part because of the poor visual representations of themselves via low-quality avatars. In the Metaverse, status is a function of two things: access to restricted environments such as the Black Sun, an exclusive Metaverse club, and technical acumen, which is often demonstrated by the sophistication of one's avatar""

We are proposing something far more complex. The current world we live in and the virtual world are going to be united in a way never before possible. And we, as a global community, will bring this to happen. We will explore the world in ways never before possible. We will unite our efforts and create a new dimension of virtual reality never before possible.

New technologies will evolve, and no longer will you need to access a computer to access this virtual parallel world. It will be all around you, accessible from any location, in manners and ways we do not wish to share or reveal, as we are at the dawning of a new age of intellectual achievement, and it will be restricted at the start to those who believe and join the global force. The power of mass collaboration will enable new opportunities for all, will allow both the poor and the rich to live as one, to work for the betterment of mankind. The world will be able to see, touch, feel and reach every dimension of this new reality. We are at the dawn of the greatest revolution of science and social interaction !

Those who believe in this now and join the global force will be the ones to make history !

[P.C.]

I still think what you say make sense , and true, it is not about who came first and all those things it is about realy understanding the future.
Now I hoe you don't think I am off-tracking the discussion but you ask an answer and I have to make one.
You say ;

"What structural method exactly are you referring to, please be more specific."

Well there are no way around looking 3dh up if you want to understand it, but it is very real I try to explain. It is not that big a problem to design and shape in 3D , the real problem is to realy profit from the new technology without just using it to support old outdated technikes.

Now what I say is that what you need, is a new technike to build things, so many young people master the computer and it is no problem to draw whatever in 3D for them.

But then what --- if a 3D drawing has to be torn apart , to conform with engineering princips more than 250 years old, to even be build, what value has these new technologies then ?

Now there are nothing vauge about having a revised 3D drawing, and to build what is there in 3D, you just "press the button" , and the program in a very simple but quite new way, generate an intire assembly, the structure for the house only much easier to build than the tradisional house and with fewer and simple worked materials --- and in a way that any skilled young computer geek can understand ; what you maybe don't realise , is that this 3dh acturly work , all you need to do is to find some drawing of a building structure in 3dh and look at it, and then ask yourself, if that is not better --- drawing it with Solids in a CAD program and then press the button, compared all the trouble with tradisional construction drawings, that don't offer each and every part in one to one scale ready to cut in cheap sheet material.

Now these visions will not work without both the means and the tools are there --- it is easy to make 3D worlds but building them in real there are a huge gab, as the technikes fit for the computer and cheap roduction are almost not there, except with 3dh that is just as easy and simple as the tradisional works, good thing about it is though, that it take nothing more than a simple water or laser cutter to use that simpel system.

Trust me --- I read what you say, and my suggestion are relevant.

[P.C.]

Please let me be more specific ;

If you want a real edge, something that realy make a difference ; wouldn't that be, if you could say , " well you can all master the 3D worlds, but we can build it, and we can build it just from the 3D Solid models you deliver".

Wouldn't it be nice, if you was able to bring the virtual things out into the real world, and do it in a perfectly sound way, a way that even build a cheaper and a stronger house, but not just a house but nearly everything you can draw in 3D, wouldn't that make a difference ? and wouldn't that be a mile ahead others.

[csintexas]

I'm not being negative, I'm being realistic.

What you are describing is "the internet". It is already here and already free.

If we wanted to represent ourselves with avatars we could certainly do that but why should we want to? I would rather have an actual hi definition video feed of places I want to see rather than a digital recreation. I would rather talk to an actual person rather than some fake representation.

I actually do agree with many of your opinions about the importance and the future of the internet. No doubt it will continue to evolve with or without our help.

Some of the technology and capabilities you are suggesting are already here: global communities, interaction, accessible from any location, mass collaboration, explore the outer limits of our universe without the cost of actual physical travel, etc..

Some of the technology and capabilities you are suggesting may take hundreds of years to develop.

[usarender]

I think the people reading this still have not completely understood the implications of this new parallel universe. It it nothing like any of these little "free worlds" that are available online. It will be global in scale, and will unite all small providers and "free worlds" into one global scale online community. The potential for reaching an audience is astronomical ! We are at the dawn of a new era in global communications !

The fact that internet exists today, or some elements basic to this new global interaction exist in embryonic form does not predicate the failure of a virtual global community as described above. These are simply the basic initial building blocks taking shape around us. We use rudimentary tools today but the direction is one and the same - global virtual integration in a way never before possible. It will unite telecommunications, social interaction and territorial boundaries, it will enable us, with the new technology, to test new mass transportations of the future, new technologies we are developing, and to expand our virtual and real life relationships in a way never before possible.

The internet will change also and will not be as we know today, so the future is not determined by our existing knowledge of the internet, of bits of information exchanged with on and off signals that are antiquated, based on an old system of data exchange. We must continue to work with what we have, but any new technological development always works this way. The important thing is that we are all walking together in the same direction, not pulling each other apart in different directions.

We need to set standards of global implications in this virtual community. We depend on leaders to do this, as, in the novel cited, otherwise, and as we see today, we have so many different concepts of what this meta universe should be, that each company is developing it's own version. This is what will eventually need to stop. We are uniting our efforts here to create one consistent global system and technological integration system that will bring together the greatest minds the universe has seen. It will enable us to jointly test new technologies. It will allow companies to join forces and reach the global market. It will allow for the testing of new mass behavior theories and their implications on the urban tissue. It will allow for the natural evolution of communities, cities and places, based on the auto-adaptation, and the evolution of individual creation within a "global pattern" possible by this universal framework. It will create the new "pattern language" of the future. It will allow the skeleton structure to create the pattern, with its basic guidelines, and the global community of designers, architects, engineers, city planners, companies and individuals to create the infill in a jointed, united and universal manner. This is revolutionary and we are only at the beginning of a new global phenomenon !

[P.C.]

There are one sentense I found totaly out of conspects ;

"We depend on the leaders to do this,"

Eh , --- there my bicycle chain ran off, talking about this community , what way do you promote leaders, I don't get it.

[usarender]

The term "leaders" are simply those willing to take the lead, the thinkers and shapers of society. Those who wish to contribute, join forces, help assemble this global community, fund it, are those who are uniting forces and will be helping the community set and create standards of development. There is no one government, no one group of people who can consider themselves the "leaders". Simply put, there are those who lead in the world, and there are those who follow. Do you wish to be a leader or someone who simply follows the status quo ?

Now regarding software developers working together, the work actually becomes light and a matter of using what we have, when we understand how these multiple 3D worlds in existence today are actually being developed.

As expounded upon in the link at "Amazon.com", placed on the global community site, there are many methods to exploit collaborative effort and ways for companies to voluntarily open up previously guarded intellectual property, to allow companies to share their codes in a way to benefit the power of mass collaboration and it's global implications on the betterment of business, and is quickly making sense in the business world. Also, companies today who have developed their own little virtual worlds have all had access to the same basic code language, and assemble it each in their own way. None of them has a unique code, in my opinion. You can see the common software codes everywhere. They even demand you sign an agreement, when you join their communities, to agree to not bring charges of code sharing against them, should you use their virtual worlds. So these software languages and codes are being shared and accessed by all. So it is no big task for our programmers to unite and share this code with the universe and create the new meta universe the world is waiting for !

[csintexas]

[usarender]

Please do not down-play my comments, simply because embryonic forms of what I have suggested already exist. We are visionaries, and like all visionaries, work from what we know and project this knowledge into the unknown future, so as to be able to give some type of prediction of future business and the future world. We do not wish to suggest imaginary things that either do not exist, or cannot be accomplished. We have thousands of ideas waiting to be launched, and this is the tip of the iceberg. We are global, we are connected, we are intelligent, we cannot be despised, as we are not a single individual. We are the global thinkers, and by joining forces, we will become even stronger.

As Mr. Steele notes in his review of the book -->>

"--90% of most R&D is internal and therefore lacking in the diversity that might come from the larger open network. This is *very* important. We need to build the World Brain and machine-speed translation and integration. Singapore, the Nordic nations, and even Estonia are ahead of the USA in this area. "" and --->>

"--top billion people are believed by some to have 2-6 spare hours a day during which they could be contributing knowledge and mentoring to the larger group. [Bottom five billion desperately need to be connected to the Net for free, and if we did that--for what we have spent on Iraq we could have given out 5 billion free cell phones--they would create infinite wealthy.] """

"--Four things I had *not* heard of: CollabNet, Scorecard, InnoCentive, and TakingITGlobal. ""

The review by Mr. Mc. Donald is fascinating and explains well the power of this mass collaboration ! See the link below and read his review ! You will be spell bound ! It starts by stating -->>

"Don Tapscott helped found the new economics associated with the Web with Digital Economy and Digital Capital. Wikinomics seeks the same goal using the features and functions of Web 2.0 as a basis for new forms of business collaboration and opportunity.

Tapscott takes numerous examples of next generation collaboration and social networks to point to the potential of the next generation of the web where customization, tailoring, self-publishing are viable business activities. The examples which range from assaying gold deposits to creating new rap albums are compelling. They lay the foundation for the principles of wikinomics that include:

BEING OPEN to allow customers, peers and others more access to your content, intellectual capital to collaborate and create something new.

PEERING to recognize that people form their own communities to create value, such as open source, and prefer these communities to traditional hierarchies that concentrate on control.

SHARING to overturn the economics of scarcity in favor of wide distribution and tailoring. In this regard, value comes not form distribution but from application of your products and services. "

"From these principles Tapscott discusses the following actors that will bring this world to the forefront of business:

1. Peer pioneers who will create the new business models based on wikinomics and found the companies that will displace both traditional companies and first generation web companies.

2. Ideagoras the creation of open forums where ideas are freely shared and developed based on attracting world class talent from around the connected world.

3. Prosumers who are a rising group of customers who will both produce and consume new products and services.

4. New Alexandrians the 'librarians' who will bring people together. In other words, the mavens that draw the Prosumers into the Ideagoras.

5. Platforms of Participation which is where the wiki economy will happen. These are places where companies open their products and platforms to enable collaboration and creation of next generation products and businesses.

6. Global Plant Floor recognizes that manufacturing has become more open and able to support mass customized products. This is essential for new products to get to market effectively.

7. Wiki Workplace the environment where people will collaborate in the future, connect and collaborate to create new sources of value. """

"Tapscott does a great job of illustrating the very real possibilities associated with the new social and collaborative capabilities provided by the web. These are real phenomenons that are currently cutting apart the music, media, financial services and just about every industry. Executives ignore these developments at their peril.
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