Yi-Tan Tech Community Call #366 - How Expertise Is Changing - 1:30pm Eastern, Monday 2012-05-07

[Jerry Michalski]

Greetings,

We sure do rely a lot on experts. When do they help or hinder? How might we improve the situation?

As our trust in crowds has slowly increased, our trust in experts has decreased. There are certainly many reasons to be skeptical of experts, from their vested interests to how many are invented strategically to spin issues. There's also our idolization of winners and undervaluation of luck.

To cite one of my favorite nuggets of wisdom on this subject, experts should be on tap, not on top.

Together, let's discuss:

• What has caused this crisis in expertise?
• How should we reframe experts? When are they useful?
• Is something more extreme going on? A bigger shift?

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Date: Monday, 2012-05-07

Time: 10:30am Pacific, 1:30pm Eastern

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Talk to you on the call!

Bestest,

Jerry

[Drummond Reed]

Jerry, this sounds like a call relevant to Connect.Me. I just got back from a month on the road so it's crazier than usual. I'll do my best to dial in for the start of it but I may only be able to stay for 30 mins.

Best,

=Drummond  

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[Jerry Michalski]

Excellent. Pipe up if you do make it on. 

Are you thinking of how reputation is the new source of authority?

[Drummond Reed]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Jerry Michalski <je...@sociate.com> wrote:

Excellent. Pipe up if you do make it on. 

Are you thinking of how reputation is the new source of authority?

Yes. Even more than that, I'm thinking about a key theme from this last IIW, which is that tht start of authority for individuals will soon be their personal cloud -- their own virtual compute space in the cloud. For several years this has been referred to as "personal data store", but calling it a personal data store is like calling a personal computer a file system. The fact that it can store data is almost incidental to the fact that it is a personally-controlled computing space that can act authoritatively (modulo a virus or intruder) on the data in that file system. (Does "Jerry's Brain" come to mind here? ;-)

A personal cloud is exactly the same thing except independent of a physical machine. For an individual, this virtual compute space is the natural source of claims about that person -- including claims about their identity and reputation. Even though those claims may come from other parties on the network, they flow through an individual's personal cloud, which provides the permissioning point.

I hope to have a blog post up about it before tomorrow morning - if so I'll send a link.

[Jerry Michalski]

Schweet! 

Thanks, Drummond

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