Teemu Arina's presentation at the DCL conference in Vanajanlinna, Hämeenlinna on 4th of November 2009. For more information, see http://tarina.blogging.fi

1. REAL-TIME WEB
Timeshifting Organizational Learning
November 2009
Teemu Arina
tarina.blogging.fi tar1na

2. CHANGING CONTEXT OF
LEARNING AT WORK

3. Ours is a brand-new
world of allatonceness.
McLuhan

4. We can no longer
build serially,
block-by-block,
step-by-step,
McLuhan

5. ...because instant communication
insures that all factors of the
environment and of experience
co-exist in a state of active interplay."
– Marshall McLuhan (1967)

6. “We might already be beyond
the age of speed, by moving
into the age of real-time. The
move towards real-time is one
way out of the world of speed.”
Ivan Illich
1996

7. FROM LINEAR
SEQUENTIAL MODELS

8. TO NON-LINEAR
SIMULTANEOUS
PARALLEL HAPPENING

9. FACTORIES &
SCHOOLS
DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS

10. I NEED IT ALL AND
I WANT IT NOW

11. Ref: Domino’s Pizza, USA

12. NOW WEB
– JWT Trendletter August 2009

13. AWARENESS
“We define awareness as the ongoing
interpretation of representations i.e.
of human activity and of artifacts.”
– Matthew Chalmers et al. (2002)

14. AWARENESS SYSTEMS
“...offer tremendous potential for
innovation, with a wide range of forms
and contexts for transforming the
space around us.”
– Panos Markopoulos et al. (2009)

16. INFORMATION & ATTENTION
“What information consumes is rather
obvious: it consumes the attention of its
recipients. Hence a wealth of information
creates a poverty of attention.”
– Social Scientist Herbert Simon (1971)

17. ATTENTION ECONOMY
“Attention is focused mental engagement
on a particular item of information. Items
come into our awareness, we attend to a
particular item, and then we decide
whether to act.”
– Davenport & Beck (2001)

18. CONTINUOUS PARTIAL
ATTENTION
– Linda Stone (1998)

19. FELT PRESENCE OF THE
IMMEDIATE EXPERIENCE

20. BE HERE NOW
– Ram Dass

21. POWER OF NOW
– Eckhart Tolle

22. NOWISM
– Trendwatching.com

23. REAL-TIME WEB

24. The web is transitioning from mere interactivity to a more
dynamic, real-time web where read-write functions are
heading towards balanced synchronicity.
The real-time web is the next logical step in
the Internet’s evolution.
– OM Malik, Giga OM (2009)

25. PAGES TO STREAMS
“This isn’t an inbox we have to empty, or a page we have
to get to the bottom of — its a flow of data that we can
dip into at will but we can’t attempt to gain an all
encompassing view of it.”
― John Borthwick, VC focusing on the Real-time Web

26. News Activity Media Search
Drivers
2009 Real-time web: from pages to streams CONSUMER
Real-time sense of colleagues,
2010 customers and business intelligence ENTERPRISE

27. http://twitter.com/cremebruleecart
Over 8400 followers

28. REAL-TIME SPACES

29. DIGITAL DNA
DIGITAL
’N’
ANALOG
DOUBLE HELIX

30. AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE
“...refers to electronic environments that
are sensitive and responsive to the
presence of people.”
– Cai & Abascal (2005)

31. AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE
IN THIRD PLACES

32. MICROSOFT SURFACE

33. COMMUNICATION CONTENT CONTEXT
<<2000 2000-2008 2008>>
3 MOBILE ERA’s
Ref: SPRXMobile

34. REAL-TIME ECONOMY

35. ?

36. MANAGEMENT
CYBERNETICS

37. CYBERSYN PROJECT
“What you are about to hear
today is revolutionary – not only
because this is the first time
that this is applied in the world –
it is revolutionary because we
are making a deliberate effort to
GIVE THE PEOPLE THE POWER
that science gives to us,
enabling them to use it freely.”
– Stafford Beer, 1970

38. Ref: Stafford Beer

39. REAL-TIME OPERATIONS ROOM
Real-time computer controlled planned economy
Opsroom, Chile, 1970-1973 MULTINODE_METAGAME, Turkey, 2009

40. REDUCTIONISM

41. 4 M’s
• MEN
COMPLEXITY
VARIETY
• MATERIALS
• MACHINERY
• MONEY
Ref: Stafford Beer

42. VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL
"A self-organized system must be
always alive and without finalizing, since
conclusion is another name for death."
– Stafford Beer

43. }
REDUCTIONIST
VS. PARADIGM
CYBERNETIC
top-down, management driven

44. }
REDUCTIONIST
VS. PARADIGM
CYBERNETIC
bottom-up, people driven

45. "If you want to create change,
you must challenge not only
the models of Unreality,
but THE PARADIGMS
that underwrite them."
– Stafford Beer, 1970

46. SLOWISM

47. LIQUID
MODERNITY
– Zygmunt Bauman

48. ENERGY >> SLOW DRINKS
Photo: Fracis Bourgouin

49. FROM
INFORMATION
OVERLOAD,
TO...

50. SOCIAL INTERACTION
OVERLOAD

51. SLOW MOVEMENT
“It is the need to belong. The need for
nearness and care, and for a little love!
This is given only through slowness in
human relations. In order to master
changes, we have to recover
slowness, reflection and
togetherness.”
– Guttorm Fløistad

52. TOMATOES. Teemu Arina
CEO - dicole ltd.
tarina.blogging.fi
www.dicole.com
teemu@dicole.com
MY VCARD TO YOUR PHONE:
“Imagination is more
important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
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