AWS Community Day CPH - Three problems of Terraform
Flows @ 2009 Uk Media Ecologies
1. Flows:
st
21 Century Wealth-
Generating Ecologies
and
an Infrastructure for
Open Everything
2. Connecting
Who We Are:
Paul B. Hartzog PaulBHartzog@panarchy.com
Samuel Rose samuel.rose@gmail.com
of The Forward Foundation
Why We Are Here:
I. 21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies
II. Flows - An Infrastructure for Open Everything
10. Energy Commons
Food Commons Thing Commons
We the Commoners
Culture Commons Access Commons
21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies
11. Energy Commons
Food Commons Thing Commons
We the Commoners
Culture Commons Access Commons
21st Century Wealth-Generating Ecologies
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15. II.
Flows
An Infrastructure
for
Open Everything
16. What kind of infrastructure can facilitate the
distributed economy?
transparent and open
highly abstracted
implementation agnostic
plural and diverse
18. How?
share the model, and the render
interface-oriented design
open, accessible, embedded standards
infrastructure exists with representation
design for adaptability
21. 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?"
22. Connect , not replace , other infrastructures.
image source: http://wiki.aardrock.com/Network/Boundary_Spanners cc by-nc-sa
23. 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).
24. Presence vs. Communication
Current Solution:
APIs are inadequate because:
API documentation is separate from the object
APIs have no meta-standard
Flows Solution:
"MetaAPI"
Metadata delivered with presence
Metadata implements/is open standard(s)
