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This graph was the original
inspiration for collaborative Criteria-Evaluation
software subsequently explored.
At this point I had been influenced
by Nelson's Hypertext notions,
the Delphi Method and associative
networks.
This graph was originally composed
as a postscript program with
data structures for the various
states and transitions and programmatic assignment of the fontsize and
the vertical and horizontal
positions of the nodes based on
the averaging of each state according
to the criteria: consensuality,
temporality and stability.
I had
originally intended that the document itself could be circulated around in email and have states, transitions, criteria and evaluations added by collaborators. I never
really took this particular
analysis of
the nanotech situation much farther because I thought that pursuing the
creation of software which could
do this in-the-large was the best way to proceed with the analysis.
I consider the
states in the graph to have some
small merit, but it is really just a
starting point for a state-transition scenario analysis
of the introduction of nanotech.
Many of the names are rather too jokey (this was a private exercise.)
The original postscript program was lost to a harddrive failure in the early nineties.
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