[iDC] iDC Digest, Vol 50, Issue 13

[Paul Prueitt]

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.


On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:42 PM, idc-request at mailman.thing.net wrote:

> The problem is, and I think this is also what Michael is proposing,
> the economic, cultural and political value of the force of such
> collective content production upon networked architecture is neither
> valued nor measured by Google (although it is certainly stored and
> accumulated for future ventures). Google's epistemo-political sleight
> of hand is to help remap the knowledge economy as a division of labour
> between 'architecture' vs. content, with architecture the province of
> the post-fordist corporation and content 'free' for everyone else to
> produce.  It is this 'dispositif' that requires rigorous criticism.

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).

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.

Two Hands that Clap Together

The Second School, January 2009

www.secondschool.net



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.

A sub-stratum based generative architecture is the technological  
underpinning for infrastructure based on contextualizing the public  
activities of communities of practice.  Contextualization is  
preformed via a small set of formal mechanisms. A particular user or  
set of users participates through disclosure of property claims and a  
strong form of selective transparency.  A legal basis for such  
contextualization is available.  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.  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.  The visible hand is instrumented via  
everywhere present micromachines.  Immediate and provable  
transparency on these machines protects the individual rights and  
insures public value.

With a sub-stratum based generative architecture, micromachines  
automate design.  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.  Automation of design  
provides the higher level of expression required to observe and  
control very complex systems.  Micromachine meta-components provide  
the intrinsic security and DRM (Digital Rights Management) required  
for IP Exchange automation.

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.  A balance  
is achieved between open source and proprietary software models.   
This new model is called Designed Source and is “open and protected”.

Executable design patterns: The Cubicon architecture is based on  
hierarchically nested, executable design patterns.  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.  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.   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.

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.  This automation means that  
domain expert judgments from around the globe may be leveraged  
without creating a large centralized software development organization.

A user’s reference may embed concepts that add value to their email  
and other document resources.  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.  The “external markup” strategy allows multiple encodings  
to overlay the text and those encodings remain intact even when the  
source document is edited.  Such automation is just not practical  
with conventional mark-up technologies.

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.  When  
combined with deep packet inspection and atomic transaction memory,  
transclusion enable efficient processor use and agile real time design.

This convergence of Web pages and application windows gives a user/ 
developer the ability to monetize an application as a native service  
offered on a micro-payment basis. This capability provides a visible  
hand to a design process market.

paul 
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