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Sep 7 2007, 7:49 PM EDT by
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Verb: to Dis-ambiguate. Computer Science term. Related to term "uniquify" (to make unique.) Often design problems in software require disambiguation. The motto of my company, Abstract Engineering is "Providing excellence in dis-ambiguation since a really long time ago". This is partly in jest but dis-ambiguation is truly my life's work. Contemporary software essentially tolerates no ambiguity (people on the other hand live in a world chock full of it.) Making software the people can use is largely a dis-ambiguation problem.
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The Commons...
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Nov 18 2006, 6:59 PM EST by
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4 : the legal right of taking a profit in another's land in common with the owner or others
5 : a piece of land subject to common use: as a : undivided land used especially for pasture b : a public open area in a municipality
Is it the goal to ensure that a common collective ethic is placed digitally within the process of coding? Are we trying to make sure that the "common" are given a share, access, equity when developing a program, a code, a matrix?
Are we working to ensure that everyone gets profit from the work of others as they receive it?
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Nov 18 2006, 6:55 PM EST by
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Sustainable development is an approach to economic planning that attempts to foster economic growth while preserving the quality of the environment for future generations. Despite its enormous popularity in the last two decades of the 20th century, the concept of sustainable development proved difficult to apply in many cases, primarily because the results of long-term sustainability analyses depend on the particular resources focused upon.
- Britannica Press 2003
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Nov 18 2006, 6:53 PM EST by
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"Growth in harmony with our environment, preserving our resource base for our economic well-being, and planning for our children's future"
Gary Filmon, former Premier of Manitoba and Chair of the Manitoba Round Table on Environment and Economy
"Sustainable development is a journey rather than a destination"
David Buzzelli, former member of Canada's National Round Table on Environment and Economy, and former president of Dow Chemical Canada Inc.
"Development without destruction"
Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.
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Nov 18 2006, 6:52 PM EST by
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What does "sustainable" mean?
Sustainable means "able to be maintained".
In essence sustainability means maintaining our environment, economy and society during any kind of development.
These three things are also known as the triple bottom line.
Sustainability also recognises that the environment, economy and society are all interrelated.
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Nov 18 2006, 6:50 PM EST by
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For something to be fully sustainable those who seek to sustain, must first sustain themselves. To do this, does not require that one give up their morals or ethics or attention to sharing the profits of the participation. Nor does it exclude the benefits to customers, employees, or investors and owners.
Owners and workers must sustain each other and that relationship must be kept human and environmentally enhancing. Always seeking to improve the working mission and goals. At a certain level, regardles of how "open" a framework of operation tries to be, the dynamics of business always require a formal process and "guidelines" placing some as the supervisors of those who work to improve and manifest the products and services that the "company" provides.
A collective effort has to support and benefit the collective that works, but also provide the customer with what it is asking for, the investor what they expect or were told to expect, the user must get what it wants. Can everyone own a part of this? At what point does it turn from a self-sustaining effort to a full commons sustaining effort?
How do we assess if the commons is sustained?
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What is this and what is it defined as?
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Nov 18 2006, 6:39 PM EST by
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The requirements for any venture on planet earth is the establishment of a term, a definition, a title, a name. What is this "commonality" described as? How do we develop an organizational structure? That is easy. How do we decide what that structure is called, is another question.
My internal conversation has spent the past few months looking for answers to this question. I have deconstructed language usage, roots and origins, associations, and ancient alignments. What is happening by the work that is being presented here? What do "we" collectively want to be defined as? A brand? Gap, Nike, Whole Foods, Sustained Systems, Inc., CoAction Digital....ideas fused with action fused with mission fused with the future meshed with ethics and standards??
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