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Flows:21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies
andan Infrastructure for
Open Everything
Connecting
Who We Are: Paul B. Hartzog [email protected] Samuel Rose [email protected] of The Forward Foundation
Why We Are Here: I. 21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies II. Flows - An Infrastructure for Open Everything
I.21st Century
Wealth-Generating Ecologies
Producer
Distributor
Consumer
A 20th Century economic paradigm
Producer
Distributor
Consumer
R E S O U R C E S
W A S T E
A 20th Century economic paradigm
Maker
Sharer
User
A 20.5th Century economic paradigm
Making
Sharing
Using
A 20.5th Century economic paradigm
Making/Using
Sharing
21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies
Normal to Power Law Distributions
21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies
Food Commons Thing Commons
Energy Commons
Culture Commons Access Commons
We the Commoners
21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies
Food Commons Thing Commons
Energy Commons
Culture Commons Access Commons
We the Commoners
II. Flows
An Infrastructurefor
Open Everything
What kind of infrastructure can facilitate the distributed economy?
transparent and open highly abstracted implementation agnostic plural and diverse
Why?
facilitates self-selected participationresource allocationrapid innovationscaling
How?
share the model, and the render interface-oriented designopen, accessible, embedded standardsinfrastructure exists with representation design for adaptability
Share the model and the render
Interface oriented design: translation-affordances
Interface Translation
The first question you should ask:
"How can I make this work with other systems?"
produces more value than
"How can I make this work best for me?"
Connect , not replace , other infrastructures.image source: http://wiki.aardrock.com/Network/Boundary_Spanners cc by-nc-sa
Presence vs. Communication
Presence: knowing something exists (URL, RFID, etc.)Communication: knowing how to communicate to it (http, sql, etc.)
Representations for communication are a matching function negotiated between senders and receivers (or requestors and responders).
Presence vs. Communication
Current Solution:APIs are inadequate because:
API documentation is separate from the objectAPIs have no meta-standard
Flows Solution:"MetaAPI"
Metadata delivered with presenceMetadata implements/is open standard(s)
Sip:http://flows.panarchy.com/flows-dev/sandbox/php/echo.php?sip Default Functionality:http://flows.panarchy.com/flows-dev/sandbox/python/echo.py?somestuff Response Type:http://flows.panarchy.com/flows-dev/sandbox/python/echo.py?response_type=html&somestuffhttp://flows.panarchy.com/flows-dev/sandbox/python/echo.py?response_type=xml&somestuff
Integration:http://209.20.82.150/PASAdev/demo/demo1.phpuseshttp://flows.panarchy.com/flows-dev/sandbox/php/twitter.php?return_type=htmlhttp://flows.panarchy.com/flows-dev/sandbox/php/twitter.php?return_type=xml
Repository:http://code.google.com/p/flows-dev/http://code.google.com/p/flows-dev/source/browse/
Flows Meta-Standard
Eliminates: Download and install (duplication)
Allows:
Distributed processing (ex. translation) Distributed access (open data) Re-using other Flows objects (extensibility) Combining other Flows objects (mashups) Just-in-time documentation (accuracy) Introspection (automation)
Flows Meta-Standard
Flows is an attemptto cultivate, but not capture,new infrastructure.