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I moved this to NetOS as I have NetOS.org registered and did have something else in mind for WeInc. At the same time this idea IS something that WE might really be able to sink out teeth into and WE could actually do.
Business Plan:
Develop a conceptual framework for a massively parallel, distributed, operating system that integrates MachineAgents and HumanAgents. The platform will be humans using desktop PC’s connected by the Internet. Project is constrained to implementing solutions based on current or imminently available hardware. (just a thought :-) --DavidSiegel) (This doesn't sound all that big. Does it?)
- Nope. The imminently available hardware part seems reminiscent of something [[|http://brainstorm.ucsd.edu/index.html I||LorraineLee]] read about that is called a brainstorm cluster;
This does not have to be rocket science. Most of the standards needed are there already. Anybody can offer WebServices on their computer that utilizes unused bandwidth memory and processing capability in exchange for use of the network. An operating system is simply a collection of services. Now the services can be distributed anywhere on the Internet. This is a job for CollaborativeWebObjects.
What distinguishes a network of computers from a mega-computer is that there is a common operating system. CollaborativeWebObjects, when they emerge, make the Internet one huge computer everyone's machine is part of and anyone can use.
(I've wondered a several times since I stumbled into WikiWorld, could WE get a job? That would be a TuringTest of sorts for a CollectiveIntelligence. --DavidSiegel)
Question: Is there a methodology for developing a system (company, entity, CollectiveIntelligence) that integrates HumanAgents and MachineAgents into one comprehensive whole? Any entity, whether it is the Salvation Army or Microsoft, is a CollectiveIntelligence as I understand it. <aside> That is why we can make such statements like, 'I think the Salvation Army is good and Microsoft is evil.' Of course one could argue, as an intelligence, Microsoft isn't all that smart. Does Microsoft think? Does it have feelings in the same or similar sense that we humans do? </aside>
WebServices and the SemanticWeb can accomplish this. I don't know if anyone is planning to use them this way however, besides us that it.
<example> We have an application in our company called Continuous Quality Improvement. This software was loaded in the mind of each of our employees. Every area of our company was organized into teams and sub teams. Each team meets weekly to discuss each of the different subsystems of the company within its domain. This information is stored in the long-term memory of the company (mostly as paper in three ring binders). The results of these meetings are then summarized and passed up to the management team for review. (BTW The company happens to be a juice producer.) This particular example runs almost exclusively on HumanAgents. Some of the teams utilize machines for long term memory and for compiling results. This program looks at each area of the system (company) and suggests, evaluates and implements refinements to the system. </example>
Sigh. Sometimes I wonder why people just don't GetIt. Are they really that unaware, or merely like to be that self-blind?
You are already participating in systems that are comprised of Human and Others. Certainly some of those will be Human and Machine.
- Your stock broker's trade system... combination.
- The Department of Defense... combination.
- The school you attend (or Meeshy goes to)... combination.
WikiWorld is purely a Human system, as far as I know. It has no actors that are software or hardware based. All actors in it are (I therefore presume), Human.
Any system with actors that include human and not human will be combinational. Some may have some very good non-human differentiating actors, such as the system that detects if an explosion of the United States of America is a nuclear attack, or merely one of the five a year meteors that detonate and explode in the air. Human agents cannot properly determine that in real time to that particular set of events.
---StarPilot