Mankind has built an Awesome Interoperable Network

But we don't know yet how to fully use the Internet.

    We need active dependency-management layers, way beyond RSS in order to:
  • Remove the 200 Post-its® from the bulletin board
    of the General Contractor on the skyscraper project.
  • Tell the thermal engineer on the next space station when
    a revision to the docking bay impacts her control design.
  • Cancel the meeting on how to do the audit because
    that task has just been outsourced.
  • Tell a friend that a ride is no longer necessary because
    the garage just reported repairs are completed sooner than expected.
 Such functionality has been achieved in Concurrent Engineering. At least in theory.

©2010 Charles Petrie - permission to reproduce widely with attribution.