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Dave Snowden – It is a co-evolutionary rather an adoption process
Really from the 1980s, when we got scalable computing for the first time, technology has been a bit of a fetish, fetishistic device. We got obsessed with it. I think the last three to four years, we started to take … Continue reading
Dave Snowden – I think we’ll start to see kickbacking
Social computing is finally growing because it’s distributed. It evolves a lot faster than the technology which came before it, and it has a very hard failure rate. So if you have fragmented stuff with high failure rate in pressured … Continue reading
Dave Snowden – We’re in a transitionary phase at the moment
I mean trouble is that we don’t handle very well the way the computers currently present it [information] because we process patterns based on multiple triggered memories, and computers don’t work that way. I mean even the modern AI systems. … Continue reading
Dave Snowden – Technology, as it always has, favors the revolutionary
I think it’s creating conditions which will arrive, which will result in some sort of catastrophic failure. Because if you build tension in a system without release, ultimately it breaks catastrophically. So I think you got fewer people in the … Continue reading
Dave Snowden – We created a level of structure which is non-adaptive
Coming back to when I talk about distributed networks which create greater autonomy within the clusters, the trouble is you’ve got this sort of Six Sigma control mentality which makes it difficult. I’m writing stuff about Lean at the moment. … Continue reading
