[Sigia-l] We could just use whiteboards instead.

[Listera]

"Stewart Dean" wrote:

> The technology is not important.

How can you say that when the very thing that you produce at the end of all
this is 100% digital, technological artifact? Make one 'small' mistake (like
using the wrong format) and you can even deny basic access to your product,
forget about all the other niceties. We design/develop *digital*
collaborative environments, automated workflows, data access routines,
communication pathways, etc., but we won't use ourselves the technologies we
spec for our users to use?

This reminds me of a meeting I once had at the dawn of the WWW with a few
execs of TimeWarner's Pathfinder.com. They were so uncomfortable with the
medium and technology that anything *digital* we had to discuss, including
email, had to be printed out. I knew then and there, despite all the money
and hoopla, Pathfinder wasn't going anywhere. And it didn't.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba