Tuning
When two people meet a careful tuning of their bodies, breath and movement, takes place. This tuning is fundamental for any interaction that may happen after. In these first instances of tuning human beings decide how they trust the other being and orchestrate their performance of presence as result.
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Mapping values
Values within the design of distributed systems are a push and pull between transparency
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Synchronizing rhythms
When discussing the example of the tabla player, who could change any delay into a different beat
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Connecting rhythms
There are time-based protocols to regulate interactions between computers. These protocols can be…
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Tracking time
Time is an issue because of a-synchronicity. In distributing programs time is an issue because the…
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The right medium for the right task
Sander van Splunter has been investigating how complex software can adapt by itself. One of the…
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Dramatic difference
Asked about witnessed presence in systems, middleware or applications, Quillinan finds that the…
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Witnessing crisis
Witnessing is one of the issues in crisis management. In a crisis different people witness the same…
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Interacting with your computer
Because of their scale and speed, computers and systems have changed important concepts of space
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Rythm and feeling
When asked about the interaction of rhythms between humans and systems Quillinan emphasizes that…
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Scales of time
Asked to comment on the rhythms, frames, loops and organisation of time in machines and between…
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Only one way of communicating
Instead of having the computer adapt to the person, the person is supposed to adapt to the computer.
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Looking and Seeing
Quillinan, when asked abut his association with witnessing, makes the distinction between looking…
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YUTPA in systems
Computer infrastructure is not much more then a couple of bites in one way or another. So there’s…
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To better understand systems
Nevejan replies that we need to better understand systems because we live in a world where they…
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Systems are tools
For Warnier systems are tools in the first place. He would not ever call them participants. Maybe…
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Specifications
One of the reasons for the muddy software world we live in is, according to Warnier, that we don’t…