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Software holding back the progression of technology?

"What is holding things back right now is software," Mr Gates said, before adding with a smile: "At least I hope so, otherwise we are overspending to the tune of billions."
 
That's a serious responsibility for our industry to consider...
 
Also of note, considering Davos, was the re-occuring theme of knowledge management and knowledge economy in some of the keynote speeches. 
 
I also would like to voice my support for the World Social Forum taking place in Brazil simultaneously, I caught some reporting on BBC video news and again the issue of duplicity of effort was mentioned, i.e. many groups with the same cause unaware of each other's common interests, not an uncommon phenomenon but we should remember not everyone is on the net or has access to it yet.
 
It will be of interest to see what new open standards emerge that cater for these communities as more and more come online and most of all, how will they and essentially us, as software architects, avoid duplicity of effort.
Posted: Jan 28 2005, 08:49 AM by Ed Daniel | with 3 comment(s)
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Picsie said:

'as software architects, avoid duplicity of effort.'

So how to create transparency and above all, transcend the ownership / come to my party mentality?


# February 7, 2005 8:43 AM

Ed said:

What I mean by avoiding duplicity of effort is that rather than invest resource in creating existing knowledge, ascertain that the knowledge being sought does not already exist in part or whole elsewhere already.

Of course access to that knowledge and how that knowledge is syndicated may or may not include or exclude interested parties, one would hope collaboration through openness is seen as beneficial and encouraged where it is perceived to be economically, commercially and strategically prudent.

# February 7, 2005 10:15 AM

TrackBack said:

^_^,Pretty Good!
# April 9, 2005 10:44 PM