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<div><br></div>I would like to enter into this valued discussion, and to work to advance an understanding of the issue between architecture and content. A larger context might be the balance between supply and demand, centralization and decentralization; and the hidden and visible hand in economics.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:42 PM, <a href="mailto:idc-request@mailman.thing.net">idc-request@mailman.thing.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The problem is, and I think this is also what Michael is proposing, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the economic, cultural and political value of the force of such <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">collective content production upon networked architecture is neither <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">valued nor measured by Google (although it is certainly stored and <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">accumulated for future ventures). Google's epistemo-political sleight <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">of hand is to help remap the knowledge economy as a division of labour <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">between 'architecture' vs. content, with architecture the province of <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the post-fordist corporation and content 'free' for everyone else to <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">produce.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is this 'dispositif' that requires rigorous criticism.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div><div>My work, and work of a few colleagues is focused on the development of a decentralization of design and thus a decontrol over both context and design ( a component of architecture).</div><div><br></div><div>I offer the following short essay for discussion. This discussion if allowed would help me and my colleagues with the language we need to advance a new approach. </div><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language: EN-US"><b>Two Hands that Clap Together<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language: EN-US">The Second School, January 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language: EN-US">www.secondschool.net<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center; tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language: EN-US">A critical missing “public” Internet infrastructure will provide capabilities necessary to monetize content that in our communication medium is properly considered “private”. Two hands, hidden and visible, must work together. The missing infrastructure is proposed as an open, but protected communication medium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">A sub-stratum based generative architecture is the technological underpinning for infrastructure based on <a name="OLE_LINK10"></a><a name="OLE_LINK11"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK10">contextualizing the public activities of communities of practice</span></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Contextualization is preformed via a small set of formal </span><span style="font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">mechanisms. A particular user or set of users participates through disclosure of property claims and a strong form of selective transparency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A legal basis for such contextualization is available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>For example, patent disclosure and transparency on patent ownership is derived form the U.S. Constitution. In a similar way decentralized generative mechanisms are grounded in principles of free market democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A community actively mediates ownership and services use within a circumstantial setting. The control over these mechanisms is decentralized and yet constrained by a visible hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The visible hand is instrumented via everywhere present micromachines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Immediate and provable transparency on these machines protects the individual rights and insures public value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify;tab-stops: 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black; mso-fareast-language:EN-US">With a </span><span style="font-family:Arial; color:black">sub-stratum based generative architecture<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US">, micromachines automate design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Each micromachine is expressed in a sub-stratum interface language. These languages use a small set of semantic primitives and corresponding binary encoding structure to provide executable process designs and content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Automation of design provides the higher level of expression required to observe and control very complex systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span>Micromachine meta-components provide the intrinsic security and DRM (Digital Rights Management) required for IP Exchange automation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">As coined by Dr. Jonathan Zittrain in 2008, a “generative technology” allows each consumer to become a participant: to change technologies for themselves or to adopt improvements offered by others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A balance is achieved between open source and proprietary software models.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This new model is called <i>Designed Source </i></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language: EN-US">and is “open and protected”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial"><b>Executable design patterns</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial">: The Cubicon architecture is based on hierarchically nested, <i>executable design</i></span><span style="font-family:Arial"> patterns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>So once a context specification has been created, the behavioral operations it defines may be immediately incorporated into the marketplace. The means through which this occurs is called genealogy over a set of elemental transactions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Using genealogy, a design pattern is always a combinatory expression of a finite set of atomic transaction elements maintained in a community based generative structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The elements of the “gene” pool are linked to replicator mechanisms so as to provide agile expression, in much the same way as human speech is generated from a set of phonemes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">By using the rules of a generative interface language, analytic agents may be developed by third parties and monetized through the IP Exchange along with content and services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This automation means that domain expert judgments from around the globe may be leveraged without creating a large centralized software development organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">A user’s reference may embed concepts that add value to their email and other document resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The generative technology allows deep analytic encodings based on transclusion, a set of micro-mechanisms, which lets a document include sections of other documents by reference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The “external markup” strategy allows multiple encodings to overlay the text and those encodings remain intact even when the source document is edited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Such automation is just not practical with conventional mark-up technologies. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial; color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Markets of all types need a visible hand of regulations enabled by law and well-specified micro-mechanisms. Transclusion manages the nested enfolding of information that may have intellectual property restrictions and empowers a visible hand of regulation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>When combined with deep packet inspection and atomic transaction memory, transclusion enable efficient processor use and agile real time design.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">This convergence of Web pages and application windows <a name="OLE_LINK120"></a><a name="OLE_LINK121"></a>gives a user/developer the ability to <span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">monetize an </span>application as a native service offered on a micro-payment basis. This capability provides a visible hand to a design process market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">paul </font></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div></body></html>