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#: 69667 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
29-Dec-95 13:45:26
Sb: #69660-#assignment
Fm: Jon Duringer[IdeaFa 71732,3361
To: Herbert Ice 72370,2501 (X)
>> We as humans become sentient through experience (we call it "growing
up"/learning)
I'm using the word in a different, less ambitious, way, that does not imply
any learning ability. The key to sentience is to think of the program as an
object that is -aware- of its environment. That leads you to a different
sequence of design questions, such as, "What does its environment consist
of?", "What is the range of the object's perception?", and "In what ways can
the object apply force to its environment to affect it?". The idea, IOW, is
to start by defining the object's eyes and hands. Then you define the
object's motivations, its decision algorithm, its brain. It might be an ant,
with no significant learning involved.
The reason that I'm discussing this here is that we are discussing Moore
Chapter 1, so it is a good time to explore how we can eliminate the Chasm
altoghether. As of Sunday, I expect the discussion to become more near term
oriented as we come to grips with how to deal with the Chasm when marketing
our current products.
>> Send some information about meterware, I am always willing to listen.
I've passed this along to Terry Norton, who is serving as the Vendor Account
Manager for IdeaFarm Operations (a user group). Terry also now has a small
budget with which to revive the "Alpha Team" of paid testers that we had a
year ago. Getting involved as an Alpha Tester might be the easiest way to
find out what we have in place at this time.
Also, How are you related to Jay Ice? Jay is familiar with what we were doing
a year ago.
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#: 69720 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
29-Dec-95 23:46:26
Sb: #Eliminate the chasm?
Fm: Esther Schindler [EXEC] 72241,1417
To: Jon Duringer IdeaFa 71732,3361 (X)
<<< Start new thread from # 69667-assignment in S20 >>>
> The reason that I'm discussing this here is that we are discussing
> Moore Chapter 1, so it is a good time to explore how we can
> eliminate the Chasm altoghether. As of Sunday, I expect the
> discussion to become more near term oriented as we come to grips
> with how to deal with the Chasm when marketing our current
> products.
Er, *eliminate* the chasm? Or cope with it, deal with it, plan for it? There's
a significant difference between these. Which did you intend?
I don't think the chasm can be eliminated. Ignored, perhaps, to your peril.
But not erased.
Reminds me of a BBS tagline I saw earlier today: "Don't try to leap a chasm in
two bounds."
--Esther
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#: 69808 S20/Marketing OS/2 Apps
31-Dec-95 12:24:59
Sb: #69720-Eliminate the chasm?
Fm: Jon Duringer[IdeaFa 71732,3361
To: Esther Schindler [EXEC] 72241,1417 (X)
>> Er, *eliminate* the chasm? Or cope with it, deal with it, plan for it?
There's a significant difference between these. Which did you intend?
Some of our conversations have explored how to cope with the chasm. The
discussion about how to write good documentation, and the discussion about how
much money to spend on packaging, are examples. The more "far out"
discussions have explored how to eliminate the chasm altogether. The
discussion of sentience is an example.
>> I don't think the chasm can be eliminated
In the short term, that is true. And, as the economist Keynes said, "In the
long run, we are all dead!". So, let's leave the discussion of eliminating
the chasm behind us, focus on the chasms that lie before us, and move on to
Chapter 2. <s>