Hyve Design

There are so many things that we all should be focusing on to improve or fix as individuals, groups or governments. What are the most important? Can they be ordered sensibly? Would ordering them assist or encourage people to engage in activities to address the top few. Is ordering by volume of votes useful or does “expert” opinion need to be factored into this (or both)?

Some important things, in no formulated order,  are:

• Human impact on the biosphere. Can there be any planning for progress in a world that will be dominated by Climate Change?
• Massive and increasing economic imbalance. Poverty is a constructed condition.
• Access to water. Lack of clean fresh water available to hundreds of millions of people, mostly in African countries
• Child abuse. damaging the young is unconscionable and very expensive to remedy.
• Illegal drug trade. Destroys lives and maintains crime.
• Parenting skills. Caring for children is more difficult with modern, disconnected communities.
• Education. again, critical for the basis of all progressive sustained modern society.

I recieved an invite to the preview Google Wave system and eagerly got on and created a wave. This was simple enough and I soon exhausted most of the built in functions as seen in the looong [sic] video. They all worked pretty nicely and there were no obvious glitches.  I’ll allow some speed and performance issues in the beta.

There definitely is potential gold in this system but I see it taking some time before it becomes mainstream.

• it will require a volume of users – not just on Googles but on other installations (Federations)
• it will require robust security validation. The security model is good but does it stand up?
• it is very complex underneath the covers. Hardcore techs will eat it up but Web hacks like me will struggle to make the same sort of impact we can achieve now with a good JavaScript framework or XML application. Maybe the tools will become easier and some good tutorial waves ripple out.

It won’t be too long before enough small dynamic IT shops take it on internally and develop enough useful robots and extensions to get the critical mass of users it needs. There will be some lag though until bigger corporates and the real tech gatekeepers (kids) can take it mainstream.

wave me at stevebhyve

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