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To: Dr. Bob who wrote (228)4/27/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: Jerry in Omaha  Read Replies (2) of 446
 
Dr. White;

<<But if you continue with your theater metaphor, don't the audience
have to pay to get in?>>

Not here in the theater of the absurd where the audience and the actors are one!

Let's see corporate bigwigs chew their nails trying to figure out the
"intellectual property rights" on this one! Here on Silicon Investor as it
has been pointed out recently, "Flight is Might" or "Abuse Us and Lose Us!"

If the audience has to pay to get in, a "currency" to pay for a "ticket"
must then be devised. Milton Friedman once pointed out that, "Any system
will work as long as everyone believes in it." In this instance it is really
important to remember just who this "everyone" is. (Hint: Famous Pogo quotes.)

Managing living, evolving systems is an oxymoron; somehow living evolving
systems manage themselves. If there were a prime directive in the new corporate
synthesis it should derive from a deep consideration of that reality.

Living systems are exchange systems. Blockages, like the ones Mr. Dryer
seems to be concerned about, are toxic and must be dealt with. All I'm proposing
is a priori design excellence as opposed to post facto major surgery. The
challenge is to devise a medium of exchange so all can participate without
necessarily stepping up here on this public stage addressing an unseen
audience of who knows who? Shy people are a marginalized group too.

Thanks for your comment.

Jerard P
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