An Interview with Interop Founder Dan Lynch

Digital signatures allow you to build an enormous number of facilities, like real copyright facilities for authors. If you want to read an author’s document, you’ll have to buy an electronic “key” to unlock it first. Maybe the key will only cost a nickel, but that means if you publish something electronically, you could make a living if you sell a million copies. There are just all kinds of new distribution channels that will open up with digital signatures, like the ability to send digital cash.

Toward High-Performance Organizations:A Strategic Role for Groupware

Remote distributed workers can each execute a related support service that provides the “viewing” workers with a complete dynamic image of the “showing” worker’s window(s). Used in conjunction with a phone call (or conference call), the parties can work as if they are sitting side-by-side, to review, draft, or modify a document, provide coaching or consulting, support meetings, and so on.

Toward High-Performance Organizations:A Strategic Role for Groupware

Each of us knowledge workers will become involved in an ever richer online environment, collaborating more and more closely within an ever more global “knowledge workshop,” with multi-organizational users of widely divergent skills and application orientations who are using hardware and software from a wide mix of vendors. Without some global architectural capability such as suggested above, I can’t see a practical way to support and control the evolving global “workshop vocabulary” in a manner necessary for effectively integrating wide-area groupware services.

Cold Knowledge and Social Warmth

Every new communication technology – including the telephone – brings people together in new ways and distances them in others. If we are to make good decisions as a society about a powerful new communition medium, we must not fail to look at the human element.

An Interview with Interop Founder Dan Lynch

Security architects are trying to come up with a 100-year flood-plain design that’s incredibly complex – it’s sort of like trying to start a horse race before the horses are even born. We’ll solve the security problem when someone just comes along and says, “Here’s what we’re doing, do you want to buy some?” I think that’ll happen the next three or four years.

Toward High-Performance Organizations:A Strategic Role for Groupware

Users can verify that the signature is authentic and that no bit of the signed document or document segment has been altered since it was signed. Signed document segments can be copied or moved in full without interfering with later signature verification.

Toward High-Performance Organizations:A Strategic Role for Groupware

There will be critical issues of interoperability within and between our organizations and their knowledge domains. The ever-greater value derived from online, interactive work within a hyperdocument environment will require a significantly higher degree of standardization in document architecture and usage conventions than heretofore contemplated.

Toward High-Performance Organizations:A Strategic Role for Groupware

We should become especially oriented to pursuing improvement as a multi-element, co-evolution process. In particular, we need to give explicit attention to the co-evolution of the Tool System and the Human System.

Internet Hero Tries to Kick the Habbit: Clifford Stoll Aims to Stir Up Some Skepticism About the Information Network

The linking of the world’s people to a vast exchange of information and ideas is a dream that technology is set to deliver … It will bring economic progress, strong democracies, better environmental management, improved healthcare and a greater sense of shared stewardship of our small planet.

An Interview with Interop Founder Dan Lynch

If we’re going to build that highway, we have to be able to figure out how people can use it for cheap … We can have one class of service that is paid for by the rich, and another one that is cheap and easy to get on. We can run them in parallel.