Subject: Technology horse
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BPR is just one area where technology, particularly IT, seems to have
displaced reasoned analysis and goal-oriented change with "canned" system
solutions. Knowledge management (KM) is another and recent developments in
computer-based and web-based training suggest that training and education
are about to meet the same fate. Platforms, portals and "shoveled-in"
content or subject matter do not produce useful learning simply because
they ride the technology horse.
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Well, that's the way silicon brains work. To make sense to a human brain
you still need humans! Since silicon brains are so stupid from a human
brain look, they need humans as servants. Silicon brains cannot reason,
so don't use them to replace human brain reasoning. Use silicon brains
for what they are: Fast processors.
Suggestion:
Devise tests and measures to make sure these Software processes assist
your task. Set "traps" silicon brains don't check for - example Erratic
Behavior of Management. Meaning: If GM's top president wipes his nose,
the little GM manager on the opposite side of the globe gets a lung
inflammation.
"Thinking it through" is quite a challenge.
(For copy cats: Please cite the author of the next two paragraphs)
A different approach: Yesterdays rules of chess have changed. There are still
8 rows on the board (familiar), but there is now a additional column
(total 9). Employ another pawn per side (reducing number of unemployed pawns),
and define function, authority, international title of the additional
Power figure. (Since there are already 2 bishops in _English_ chess, you
should not add "Richelieu", or religious leader.) You may want to employ a
morphological table to structure current power level and flexibility of all
chess figures, then look for one characteristic that could change / influence
actual power by moving the New Power Figure from one color field to the other.
Increased power must include more risk, & vice versa.
I bet current chess programs could not handle this situation, even if you
specified the "power figure" for them. Programs would have to be rewritten.
You don't need new software to have a human brain handle this simple case.
(copycat end)
A higher quality level of thinking is not a result of use of technology.
A slide rule will hardly prevent you going the wrong track. It is still a
useful tool for multiplication related math's, far less for adding up your
grocery bill.
Emil Zahner
canmor@compuserve.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/canmor
Morphological Institute Canada
2000.5.2.
Sorry if plain text includes "strange stuff". I am on Compuserve.
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