5. Geeks:
“We’ll save everyone with
our new technology!”
Emergency Managers:
“It will never work and
you’ll kill everyone!”
Foolish Scared
None Lots
Experience
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6. Geeks:
“OMG No! It won’t work
and it will kill everyone!”
Emergency Managers:
“We’ll save everyone with
your new technology!”
Foolish Scared
None Lots
Experience
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26. Ad-hoc Adaptation:
Tenacious Search
Distributed analysis of imagery for
Search & Rescue
Images put into Amazon.com’s
Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing tool.
Possible hits sent to experts for
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29. Iteration:
Steve Fossett Search
Inadequate training for
volunteers.
Many false positives.
People called SAR teams
directly, hindering search.
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30. Anti-Pattern
“In hindsight, I wish it hadn’t been there,
because it didn’t produce a darn thing that was
productive except for being a giant black hole for
energy, time and resources. There may come a
day when this technology is capable of doing
what it says it can deliver, but boy, that’s not
now.”
- Maj. Cynthia Ryan
http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/11/08/the-perils-of-the-distributed-approach/
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