Henry K van Eyken wrote:
> ...I think it would be useful if a volunteer among us comes forward to
> devote himself (herself) to assess, even if only to a preliminary
> extent, what is going on in the world of OHS-comparable
> technologies...
Sorry. But this sounds to me like a huge waste of time. There are
already
multiple groups out there who are funded and working on things. If we
want
to do something useful, being the discussion group we are, then I
suggest
we provide some papers to help them think about what they should be
doing.
At this point, that looks like about as much of a contribution as we'll
be
able to make. I've enjoyed interacting with the members of this group,
but
its looking very much as though, in 6 or 8 years, we'll be able to say
"we waved our hands to an extent sufficient to anticipate that" -- and
that we'll
be able to do that regardless of what gets developed, because, since we
never actually built anything, our hand-waving will be equally
applicable to
a wide variety of actual implementations.
Don't get me wrong, I love chewing the fat and discussing alternatives.
But I've been here before. I had written my first Outlining prototype at
Data General (using directories, file names, and naming conventions for
files like:
O_actionItem (yet to be done), and
X_actionItem (completed)
Z_actionItem (pending)
That was the point I was at when I started hearing earlier rumors of
ThinkTank, and I started organizing a few friends to make it happen
(building the second prototype in (shudder) basic). Three years later,
we had one out the door -- but we were about two years too late.
I'm seeing enough activity along these lines to know that if we started
today, odds are we'd still be too late to capture significant mind share
by the time we were done implementing. So I see publication and
persuasion as the only viable way to have any impact, at this point.
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