| Description |
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. |
| Wiki | none yet available |
| Date Begun | 1991/06/13 FIXME dates from memory |
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| Maintainer | Shawn Murphy |