The System/Dynamics? 1 _ http://tinyurl.com/262djp
2 _ http://tinyurl.com/2hkz73 3 _ http://tinyurl.com/2ar82z 4 _ http://tinyurl.com/2ho6zw . . . a+a=b . . . b+c=d . . . { " - " etc works, too } Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings Economists, On Jan 14, 2008, at 6:15 PM, g.a.s. wrote: the machine? http://tinyurl.com/2jor4n & http://tinyurl.com/2fn7vl Doyle; You like to use photos to sort of make a point. I like to make photos too. However open I am to reuse of my photos I seldom have an ant hill to offer to someone else to reuse and make a comment. And besides this image is low resolution, very noisy with detail and washed out exposure. This small scale file size image implies we could use photos to 'illustrate' ideas much as cartoonist have done for years on editorial pages. But that job is in a big decline due to the changes in newspaper distribution. One of the more recent economic bubbles tells us about how things are going in the economy of information technology. When the tech bubble burst a major symptom was the drop in value of data transmission by over building the infrastructure of data transmission with no particular need in the public to use high speed internet connection. The purpose of high speed data transfer is to accommodate large files mainly audio and visual data. As a result of the economic bubble the U.S. fell behind Japan, South Korea, and Northern Europe in laying the back bone for high speed data transfer. In the U.S. we have rinky dink visual image exchange. So does the rest of the world out side of some exceptional development areas like those I mention above. Not that the big companies don't understand the model of visual information exchange being a huge market. One of the Micro Soft execs looking down the road sees everyone document all their life from cradle to grave. But what's the purpose? I would guess Micro Soft Photosynthe in their new OS Vista is a result of trying to figure out sharing information with others. But no one is going to sit down to watch every second of three days activity by anyone else unless the value of doing that warrants such excessive immobilization of human living time. An ant hill is a metaphor of human cities. This implies sameness of the comparison. We can of course say the obvious and say no that's not useful comparison. But it is the sameness I am aiming at here. Sameness (symmetry transformational processes) implies layers laid on top of layers visually to find sameness. Some in neuroscience call this mapping, but I like layering better because we can work on a layer apart from one to one mapping. A layer in the brain is a real estate occupied to do a particular job. Seeing is in the occipital lobe, but remember specifics of the seen is in the temporal lobe. Doing something to the seen is in parietal lobe, and figuring out how to work the layers is in the front of the brain. Hence I see multiple layers rather than a single layer is visual data (lossless photo files are an example). So this multiple layering of an image is a part of the process of reusing images. This requires a lot of random access memory (8 gigs seems to be the norm for now), fast internet connection, (100 gigs ps), and commercial reasons to share information that generate a lot of profitable value in the exchange. In other words this dinky photo file would balloon into some sort of matrix of information about 100 mega bytes in size in order to capture enough layering to meet some sort of practical exchange value. Right now reuse (digital rights management) of say movies prohibits you working on the movie to resell value in this sort of file. You can get away with using an image if you don't get permission to use it to add meaning to the file by doing everything for free and keeping the work in a strictly low low cost environment. That awaits the big companies then developing reuse in their own ways. They corner the market in old information like old libraries. They provide low cost cultural centers like Flickr, or Myspace to stimulate the exchange data networks and try out ideas on large scale exchange processes that really do require reuse. Your reuse here is rinky dink because it is not location oriented. Most real value is generated in reuse by application to a real world location. One can store the files in server farms but the value of reuse is created at the node of producing new data layers upon the original file. If reuse is not done the server farms fill up with data and knowledge work grinds to a halt. thanks, Doyle Saylor --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
