The Art of Knowledge

 

In Response to Tim

Personally I think you take a huge offense to anything Gov't oriented. If you would simply take the technology and the ideas that they are actually attempting to cultivate (enterprise architecture, using knowledge as the ultimate weapon, having intense media (video games) as the sought after delivery tool) I think you would find that their ideas are good ones that we can use to build on. At this point in my research and knowledge gathering I am simply trying to find the winners in the industry, and they do exist, and the patchwork people who are simply trying to make a buck.

Please don't take offense to my incessant remarks about the "grass roots work" being done by the DoD. Maybe that was a poor term to use, and you, being you, wanted to throw down on the floor and site how gov't is totally bad. I have no problem with thinking that the Gov't might be the wrong way to go and that to find our own processes and cultivate the tools that people 3 years ahead of the curve are using is the right way to go. I guess what I'm asking you for here is your patience while I try to find out what is really being used. To align yourself with, what is now a standard, the SCORM IEEE crew is not a bad thing. Take it in. Just don't dismiss the theories because they have to do with something that you personally would never align yourself with.

One more point I would like to make. When you think about the government:

"...the government on all fronts is a necessarily conservative institution, and it seems preposterous to me to be looking to them as an innovator. ...its the flip side of the coin of the govt legislating for and against technologies, like p2p, etc. their thinking will ALWAYS be at least 5 years behind the reality, because the nature of government is preservation, protection & consolidation. and thats the opposite of what we need here."

I believe you are being a little assuming of gov't processes. The civilian gov't that handles your drivers license or does your taxes is of course all of these things. But when I think of the DoD I think quick and decisive. I see them with the funding to back the right technology. To be honest there is no company that is private that I would necessarily turn to (and I mean a company that has no gov't ties...) in the stead of the DoD. They wage war for God's sake. I think it's safe for me to assume that they may be on the ball when it comes to realigning the national infrastructure of information. I don't correlate my research or this new technology and way of thinking to their issues on foreign policy, setting up dictators or other horrible things that we presume is wrong. What I am pretty sure they do well is, their use and discovery of new technology. And that's what turns me on about them. They are trying to solve the problem instead of capitalize on a trend. They have the means and resources to come up with real answers. Your ideas about using w"what the people use" are valid and personally agreed upon. I would just make the suggestion of understanding what is being attempted before we presume that it will evetually be implemented incorrectly.

Ok...let me feel the flame.


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