yes, harrison, and the other piece i wanted to share was a bit of s p e c u l a t i o n
that ost/os's appearance as a conscious human practice represented a point of convergence in the history of social technologies; and that what has followed in the 20 years since has been a period of divergence in time for another level of convergence. it sounds like you're calling that next level of convergence "waveriding"- I wonder if "waveriding" (much like the "interactive" or even "inspired organization") is something like senge's "learning organization," a vision which in its time lacked a "how." so, yes, those other approaches may likely be unnecessarily complex *and* at the same time together they represent the aggregate of current best guesses as to how we might get to waveriding... warmly and an openly spacious new year, raffi * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
