[LINK] Digital Ecosystem

[Adrian Chadd]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009, Roger Clarke wrote:

> ><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem>
> 
> The number of times general systems theory gets re-discovered and 
> re-badged is remarkable.
> 
> We'd get further, faster and better if the world would actually 
> internalise its insights (under whichever name people like to use).
> 
> But I guess we're stuck with most people being unaware of it, some 
> people ignoring it, and hence its continual re-emergence, widespread 
> non-comprehension about it, and re-disappearance ...

You mean, like all of the (re)discovered technologies surrounding
virtualisation, language design, parallel processing, etc? :)

One of my favourite amusements before I left for holiday was someone
describing to me this complicated method for scheduling work, managing
queues, retrying failed jobs (eg failed hardware, etc) and such.

I said "oh cool, you just wrote a batch processing system. In PHP.
Neat."

He said "Batch processing? Whats that, like DOS .BAT files?"

(he was sort of right.)



Adrian