1) Story - Rob Swigart
Of course, Story is a big deal here in Hollywood, really a sub-
industry. Everybody pays homage, then goes home and sins in
primetime. But not all authorities agree on the three-act structure,
as was stated. John Truby (www.truby.com) has a series of products
analyzing very successful stories with 2, 4, n acts in various
genres. Perhaps an area which could be investigated would be a set of
genres matching the scenario work. Here again, Truby has the most
interesting set of genres. Obviously, no business would own up to
playing out a Murder Mystery, but maybe Romance has some value. If
you're going to borrow, why not take it all?
2) Promoting these ideas
It seems the seminar is looking for a fundamental set of products or
developments, a complete toolkit, to create this revolution, just as
the PC was born. I'm not sure this will be possible in the limited
time available, or that it can play out the same way.
Evolution is messy. While exploration and development proceeds in
academia and business, efforts should also be made in the public and
mass market arena. Even academics participate in the common
experience during down times. Existing venues in the media should be
exploited to prepare society. Identify, encourage and train naturally-
occurring spokespersons. Products like Partnerware and groupwares are
popping up all over the 'net. Use and encourage them, even if they
only implemented half of an idea. A CoDIAK Webring can be established
to link NICs and related efforts. An HTML newsletter can help
maintain visibility. Potential profits can be stressed to create
value. Is there an IPO in here somewhere? Perhaps memes could be
created to spread the concepts. The whole idea needs to acquire sex
appeal. In other words, we are not likely to be able to afford
elegance, nor should a lack of elegance discourage any venue or
method. He who dies with the most toys, wins.
DKRs will require a fundamental cultural shift toward honoring
information. Information must become like a religion, preserved and
enshrined just like ancient texts. Right now, information control and
obfuscation are much more important - politics and religious
authority are the most blatant examples. And witness the low stature
and pay of librarians and teachers.
One classmate raised the question of conversations not being
recorded, pointing out that they contain much of the knowledge which
should be stuffed into the repository. Obviously, our culture is not
going to start hiring millions of human recorders to take notes and
maintain DKRs (even if this would be a good thing to do with the
millions who will have nothing to do when robots are designing and
building robots). But the immensely more powerful computers just
around the corner will be able to. Dragon Systems is previewing audio
search technology which comes from the "Intelligence community" (and
which may, in fact, have played a role in Echelon, the American
telecom spy system which has made many Europeans paranoid). As a
pilot project, the NPR audio archive is being made available. When
workers communicate with each other and the DKR just as Starfleet
officers talk to their ships, DKRs will be practical and powerful.
This possibility is not very far away.
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