i’m attending supernova at the st. francis in san francisco. i’ll blog any big ah-ha’s.
Kevin Werbach: Defining the New Network. What happens after everything is connected?
500+ people attending. Everytihng will take place in the main ballroom. Tag – supernova2007. Conversationhub.com
Don’t Forget
Be challenged
Be provative
Be Productive
…and have Fun.
Denise Caruso: Anti-Social Media: A Provocation On Risk and Innovation.
Innovations Risk
uncertainty. Will anyone buy? What will go wrong? How will it get hacked? How it interacts with other stuff? Past “oops” — nuclear energy (forgot the human factor), DDT and antibiotics (too much of a good thing), genetic engineering (networks, not legos), SGI-Time Warner (Full Service Network bombed).
Problems: one big hackathon, escalating copyright battles, net neutality (who owns?)
Have a conversation.
potential benefits: breakthrough products (Xerox), better, safer decisions (chemical weapons in Oregon), inform decision makers
anti-social networks
The nature of our society strongly affeects the nature of our technology.” But the opposite is also true. So…automate serendiptiy. Buld soial netwoworks of people not like us.
Clay Shirky: 1300 year old shrine. Shrine torn down and re-built. The shrine delinates space. We care about solidity of edifice rather than the solidity of process.
customer support. PERL programmers. PERL net. PERL is a Shinto shrine. Millions of people logged into Perlnet this morning. They love each other. There’s no contract.
wikis, blogs, mail lists, etc. promote love. don’t ask “what’s the business model?” ask, instead, how people take care of each other? we have always loved each other: we are humans; that’s what we do.
Kaliya: community work can take years. Yes, they all want to solve the problem. They do love one another.
Shannon: networks are incredibily dynamic.
The Future of Tech
Greg Papadopoulos, CTO, Sun:
Redshift. Moore’s Law: huge inflation
Some segments overserved by Moore’s Law. Bandwidth the same story. Demand for High Performance Computing is insatiable. Small company? Don’t buy software!
Redshift is a move to massive scale. Different stories for large and small apps. Grolch’s Law.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Greg, do you have a PhD in physics? Nathan and I do.
Bigger is better. How much? VERY.
Evolution of Systems. Computer…system complex…end0toend enterprise… industry eco-systemrs, global digital economy.
People, processes, information tie together customers, suppliers, employees, partners. Scalable.
Computer-asisted Strategy Collaboration, Business Design Tool (CBM, GBA), implementation (SOA)
levels of the global stack
business applications
products
technology
market facing systems
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back office systems
social systems are difficult because people are a pain in the ass
people and services.
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machines and products
physicall engineered systems, human/org systems, biological systems
human/org systems is a mix of the two poles. incredibly complex
knowledge economy
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industrial economy
nathan myhrvold — past visionary
supernova 1997. same guys could have been on stage. only substantiable difference is that now we can look back at what’s happened with the net.
next opportunity: bigger than all the stuff that has come before
n+1 is always more than everything that came before
kevin: next panel is dark matter. 100,000 people in China making digital doodads for second life and world of warcraft. lots of second-order ramifications. Matt Weston (ex PayPal security guy), Ellen Siminof, Emma Twitchen, Elliot Noss (TuCows)
Matt: Fraud — for $14 you can buy a person’s SSAN, credit card, etc: the full deal. Just want a piece, get it for 95 cents. It’s a full-fledged major industry. Phishing is prevalent. This is an international problem looking for an international solution.
Andrea Matwyshyn (Wharton): legal system is not keeping up.
Ellitt: The best investment is a great generic URL. Soon, WhoIs searches will show alternatives available for sale.
Udi Manber (Google)
Search is hard, very hard.
Scale and diversity almost byound comprehensive
20 – 25% of toay’s queries have never been seen before.
typing – words per minute test — lead to java ap
user query …. google will also try
unchanged lyrics lyrics to unchanged
universal search: all types of content
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