working out how the internet works - metamechanics @ #iamw16 - annotated
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MetamechanicsWorking out how the internet works
John V Willshire@willshSmithery, London
#IAMW16Barcelona
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culture
Thin
gs
People
prototype
strategydesign
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Jean Tinguely
Swiss Artist & Scupltor
1925-1991
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http://www.vernissage.tv
Most famous for his kinetic sculptures…
if you stare long enough, you see how they work
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Like a lot of the exhibits here in the Cosmocaixa museum
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Stare at it, see how
it works
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Humans love spotting patterns in repeat behaviour
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Mechanics
“the behavior of physical bodies when subjected to forces or displacements, and the subsequent effects of the bodies on their environment”
Wikipedia
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Mechanics:
What happens to things when things happen to them
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What makes the internet go round?
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What patterns, what mechanics can we spot?
Let’s think Small, then big…
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“an aggregation of many individual pieces of content”At home, I have Lots of packs of cards
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Content: what’s on the cards
Design Fiction Kit: Near Future Laboratory
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Mechanics: that they are cards
Design Fiction Kit: Near Future Laboratory
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artefactshop.com
We make these
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Artefact cards are high quality blank cards for working on projects
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Deal
Shuffle
Order
Stack
Turn
Spread
Rearrange
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card Mechanics are about movement
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9dIQOrVhM5E - Prof. John Wood, TED, on Synergies
“The Creative Quartet” - Prof. John Wood
1
2
3 45 6
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“We are currently witnessing a re-architecture of the web, away from pages and destinations, towards completely personalised experiences built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content…”
Paul Adams, Intercom
@padday
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“an aggregation of many individual pieces of content”
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“an aggregation of many individual pieces of content”
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The mechanics of cards allow us to design quickly using mechanics akin to the internet
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Let’s zoom out…
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but this year…
Two separate friends
recommended I read these
two books
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1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
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What if these two models fit together?
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FAST
SLOW SLOW
FAST
Does fast move fast, and slow move slow?
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The most interesting part of the hybrid model is the gearbox
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P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
THE GEARBOX
slowFast
slow
Fast
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P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
The slow drift east
cronuts for lunch
We can see conventional relationships of fast and slow
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P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
Lighting displays based
on actions
But start to see how the internet allows us to create new things
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P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
S5
S4
S3
S2
S1
product futures as marketing
But start to see how the internet allows us to create new things
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Internet Mechanics:
continually moving, always unexpected, often unintended
http://www.vernissage.tv
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“Working out how the internet works”
This isn’t really the right thing to aim at…
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Stare at it, see how
it works?
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Stare at it, see how
it works?
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“We wanna see the patterns…”
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Pattern match that, kids
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And the internet
helps people keep get weirder
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“In science, when human behaviour enters the equation, things go nonlinear.
That’s why Physics is easy and Sociology is hard.”
@neiltyson
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Strategy is dead. design appropriately.
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Strategy is dead. design appropriately.Where once a strategy would hold for years, we are now witnessing a world in which a strategy can’t even hold for the time it takes to formulate one.
Everything keeps changing.
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OODA Loops
Observe Orient Decide Act
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Observe Orient Decide Act
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Observe Orient Decide Act
A metastrategy, a strategy of
strategies: do the most appropriate
thing for your circumstances
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Design WITH the mechanics, not AGAINST them
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Kareisu (empty Chair)
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Jean Tinguely Study for The End of the World 2
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self-destructing
machines
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These are all products of the internet.
For all the good the randomness brings, other stuff is made possible too…
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self-destructing
machine?what if the internet is a
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Thanking y’allJohn V Willshire@willsh
#IAMW16Barcelona
smithery.coartefactshop.com