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SUBJECTS
KM Request Peer Review POIMS Explanation
Peer Review on KM in POIMS, Jack Park, Doug Engelbart, Pat Lincoln

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1004 -    ..
1005 - Summary/Objective
1006 -
100601 - Follow up ref SDS 61 0000, ref SDS 60 0000.
100602 -
100603 - Henry has reviewed the KM material in POIMS several times, since
100604 - receiving a copy of the letter, ref DIP 4 0001, submitted to Jack Park
100605 - on 010416.
100607 -  ..
100608 - Henry feels the writing in POIMS is too dry, and too dense.  He did
100609 - not give any examples.
100610 - ..
100611 - Henry noted the concept in POIMS that "knowledge" is formed in
100612 - the human mind by integrating information and time, ref OF 1 1298, is
100613 - considerably different from conventional explanations about using
100614 - technology, and this makes POIMS difficult to read.  He indicated the
100615 - eyes glaze over.
100616 -
100617 -     Doug's mission calls for new ways of thinking and working,
100618 -     reviewed on 991222. ref SDS 20 3696
100620 -      ..
100621 -     An example of how engineers, publshed in professional journals,
100622 -     discuss "knowledge" is is Eric Armstrong's letter on 000120
100623 -     explaining "knowledge" is distinguished from "information" based
100624 -     on being "abstractable" and "negatable." ref SDS 21 G48O
100626 -      ..
100627 -     POIMS describes "knowledge" as comprising chronologies of cause
100628 -     and effect organized by context, ref OF 1 0367, which is different
100629 -     from the engineer's approach, but not terribly different from
100630 -     Doug's explanation in his 1972 paper, reviewed on 000327.
100631 -     ref SDS 24 3971 On 980307  Andy Grove, CEO of Intel, suggests new
100632 -     ideas required study. ref SDS 14 5794
100633 -
100634 -          [On 010711 Henry proposes a paper explaining how SDS supports
100635 -          Doug's ideas in his 1992 paper. ref SDS 63 T67J
100637 -  ..
100638 - Henry feels SDS can be explained without mentioning alphabet
100639 - technology, or at least it should be less prominent, which reflects
100640 - his letter on 001105. ref SDS 40 AE7L
100641 -
100642 -     We considered briefly that literacy supported by alphabet
100643 -     technology is the engine of civilization.  Therefore, to lift
100644 -     civilization, we have to improve alphabet technology.  The more
100645 -     people cry out to ignore this capability, the more attractive it
100646 -     becomes as an opportunity to meet the challenge of expanding
100647 -     complexity.
100649 -        ..
100650 -       [On 010420 Jack Park proposes explaining the Welch theory of
100651 -       knowledge in a separate chapter of a book on something.
100652 -       ref SDS 62 ZO5K
100654 -        ..
100655 -       [On 011208 Jack Park objects to using alphabet technology to
100656 -       explain SDS advantages for intelligence support. ref SDS 64 4Q5L
100658 -        ..
100659 -       [On 071113 Jack Park submits paper explaining power of alphabet
100660 -       technology to advance civilization. ref SDS 65 PH4K
100662 -      ..
100663 -     Henry seemed to indicate in our call today that human intelligence
100664 -     is the engine of civilization, rather than literacy.  POIMS
100665 -     explains that alphabet technology and mathematics are the only
100666 -     tools we have for augmenting intelligence.  POIMS strives to
100667 -     strengthen these tools, certainly alphabet technology, ref OF 1
100668 -     ER3G, so this seems more an objection of form rather than
100669 -     substance.  Lack of experience using SDS every day to create
100670 -     connections of cause and effect make it hard to associate, or
100671 -     otherwise grasp, an idea about integrating time and information.
100673 -      ..
100674 -     This suggests that without gaining the experience with SDS, people
100675 -     will never grasp the opportunity of moving from IT to a technology
100676 -     that grows knowledge.
100678 -  ..
100679 - Suggested Henry review Gary Johnson's letter on 010408, ref SDS 59
100680 - 0001, and see if he feels this explanation is easier to assimilate as
100681 - a style that might improve POIMS.
100683 -  ..
100684 - Henry has not had enough time to write a letter citing specific
100685 - paragraph in POIMS that seems difficult to understand. It would help
100686 - to get feedback on how to make the material easier to understand.
100688 -  ..
100689 - For example, POIMS points out that understanding the architecture of
100690 - human thought is difficult, ref OF 1 V57N, because it occurs
100691 - involuntarily, and so rarely is a topic for consideration.  How can
100692 - this point be presented more constructively, to engage people in the
100693 - difficult task of learning about KM in a world immersed in IT?
100695 -  ..
100696 - Henry is concerned about the energy problem and the environment.  He
100697 - feels people need to keep track of these problems, and he mentioned
100698 - voting for politicians as a method for doing this.
100700 -  ..
100701 - He is reading a book about, or by, a management expert who the UN
100702 - hires to handle difficult projects because this person has a lot of
100703 - contacts in business and government that he is able to enlist in
100704 - solving difficult projects.  This reflects KM as capability to
100705 - strengthen social contacts cited in POIMS. ref OF 1 ST8M  On 010114
100706 - this idea was promoted by KMCI. ref SDS 48 EK3I
100708 -  ..
100709 - Henry feels this book shows a dimension of KM that needs consideration
100710 - along with opportunities to improve tools like SDS that strengthen
100711 - leadership.
100713 -  ..
100714 - //
100715 - He said Doug Engelbart has not kept commitments made since repeatedly
100716 - since last February for support in connection to Henry's work on the
100717 - BI web site.
100718 -
100719 - //
100721 -  ..
100722 - Henry is worried that the BI web page needs improvements to advance
100723 - Doug's agenda.  He mentioned various action items pending from others
100724 - that need attention.
100726 -  ..
100727 - We considered how Henry's work has greatly advanced Doug's plans and
100728 - objectives for BI.  Henry may be seeing "flaws" that are not evident
100729 - to others, because he is so close to the project.
100730 - ..
100731 - Henry explained Doug's goal for the BI's web site to provide a
100732 - resource for learning and expanding knowledge to solve big problems,
100733 - e.g., energy, environment. This aligns with planning during Doug's
100734 - Colloquium last year, for example on 000120. ref SDS 21 1215
100735 - ..
100736 - Henry might consider writing a letter to the team on engaging
100737 - foundational issues in POIMS for moving from information (IT) to a
100738 - culture of knowledge, similar to the change from orality to literacy
100739 - that occurred about 2,400 BC, reported on 991108. ref SDS 19 7426
100741 -  ..
100742 - So long as culture merely forages on endless information that brings
100743 - instant satisfaction to the senses, like cows grazing in vast pastures
100744 - of grass, see POIMS, ref OF 1 2049, and NWO ref OF 3 156O, complexity
100745 - will mount, causing work to implode as explained in NWO. ref OF 3 TQ4O
100746 - and ref OF 3 7501  The current malaise gripping markets worldwide,
100747 - reported on 001207, ref SDS 46 V54M, illustrates the urgency of this
100748 - underlying pandemic problem. Under this scenario, problems of the
100749 - environment and energy will remain unsolved.
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100751 -          [On 010711 Henry proposes a paper explaining how SDS supports
100752 -          Doug's ideas in his 1992 paper. ref SDS 63 T67J
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