KM Labs : Knowledge Management Technologies

The « Seamless Web » can be defined as the complex graph linking everything to everything in the universe through the time. So it is also a « system of systems » but the approach is different from the complex systems theory. As It links here without seam intentional and unintentional systems or processes. It is actually a more global approach than the complex systems theory, defining each system as a combination of structures, functions and evolution, but can be completed this way.

Technosphere and environment are here described through a « network actor model » (cf NAT (Network Actor Theory). We have to consider each element ubiquitous (chaotic reality). For instance, your keyboard or your mouse is part of your technosphere but they also exists in the global environment. The difference is a user centric point of view : if you can control your mouse or your keyboard (technosphere), then you can for instance use the internet environment. On the other way, the same reality can be either in or out of the technosphere depending on the position of the central actor.

As points out Timber Neslee, blogging about the Social Graph as does also Alex Iskold, who discusses social graphs and network theory (like network topology,) in general, “users want to own their own social graphs”. And “There is a "Social Network Portability" community. Its not the Social Network Sites that are interesting -- it is the Social Network itself. The Social Graph. The way I am connected, not the way my Web pages are connected.” (Timber Neslee)

« Social graph » is also the point of view of Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook. He says « it is the whole relations of all the people in the world. There is only one and nobody owns it ».

So we could extend the concept of « Social Graph » to this concept of « Actor Graph », which is not also including Social Graph as the graph between Human Systems, but the graph between all things that would be linked in the real world, for example, Technology, Economy, Cultural an Natural Systems, …as these systems are all « Seamless » in the real world. It is a transdisciplinary world !

The Technosphere model is choosen because it considers the user (you, me, and everybody!) into Network-centric operations (NCO) model. This concept can trace its origins to 1996 when Admiral William Owens introduced the concept of a “system of systems” in a paper of the same name published by the Institute National Security Studies. But Technology as the “General Technology”, so not only the physical objects, but the cultural organisation also, - as technology - , is a new concept for NCO.

Human action shapes technology and technology determines human action. There is so an important challenge for the world society : the SCOT (Social Construction of Technology), and this is reflected each time people work together. So this model should help social-networks to shape their reality and the one of others.

In the Digital Earth framework, standards foundations are : domains, disciplines’content and applications. >We have so our Environments (domains) and the Technology (Disciplines, datas, Applications ...are functional structures !) The model is directed to and from physical technologies : the Net we normally use as short for Internet, is also moving towards the International Information Infrastructure (III). It is a natural evolution because the largest Technosphere we have is our Global Environment !

Digital Earth Framework