Mark Burgess @ devops REX 2016
The world, our society, depends on a collaboration of parts --- on a shift from self-sufficiency to co-dependency. The repercussions are enormous. But, like any system, what works at one scale may not work at another. As the density and speed of our world increases, how does society and its multiple systems scale? Is the application of technology to create smart appliances, smart homes, and smart cities, the answer to retaining our existing way of life, or transforming into a new one? What will this mean for the future shapes of our lives?
9. Borrowing debt (advanced and retarded money)
Permission to violate the laws of physics…
• So do I have to pay you back?
• Behind value is trust and desire, not
intrinsic accounting
• Borrow once, pay geometrically…
10. But money is only simple information exchange
• Decentralized agency
• Central semantics
11. Exchange requires INTENT
The promise is the source of intent by which all promisees and
observers may calibrate their expectations….
The voluntary basis of trust….
12. 1. Agents and super agents make promises in a scaling
hierarchy
2. An agent can never make a promise about another agent’s
behaviour (only its own)
3. An agent’s promise need not be accepted or used by its
intended or unintended recipient!
4. An agent makes its own valuations: what you have is only
worth what another is willing to give you for it
5. Dependency invalidates promises
Promise Theory (in 1 slide)
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14. PRODUCTION of RESOURCES - pipeline flow thinking
• Source of promises
• Source of semantics
• Ruled by dynamics
• Cooperative network
20. Cognition: are brains knowledge banks - a new economy?
Central relationship manager,
learning, building trust.
Smart cities / spaces and
communities?
Learning builds trust in future
outcomes
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22. The failures of service modularity
the scaling of agency, promises, and semantics
• Cities were monolithic, then came
modular cities… or smart cities?
• Trust in Microservices or objects, or
workforce, teams, ecosystems .