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And, when pushed to an extreme, what does it reverse or flip into? ENH (enhance) “First, extension: as an ‘extension of man’ (subtitle to UM) every technology extends or amplifies some organ or faculty of the user.” [LoM viii] Amplify. Extend. Speed up. Intensify
Description. "In order to live at sea, we’re pioneering an entirely new form of marine architecture. Open_Sailing acts like a giant organism, a cluster of intelligent units that can react to their environment, change shape and reconfigure themselves. They talk to each other. They’re modular, re-pluggable, pre-broken, post-industrial and ...
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Ross Dawson: "Microtask platforms take projects and reduce them to a series of small, welldefinedtasks that are distributed to workers all over the globe. The ability toallocate microtasks to many workers is likely to have a major impact, as businessprocesses are increasingly broken into small pieces that are allocated asappropriate to computers or...
"Microtask platforms are generally used for small, well-defined, repetitive tasks that usuallydo not require significant skills. These are applied within ongoing business processes or insome cases as part of a single project. The basic model is that large projects are broken down into small constituent tasks, calledmicrotasks, which are distributed...
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Mechanical Turk dominates the microtask landscape. It is the longestestablished platform, draws on a huge labor pool, and has advancedAPIs. It describes microtasks as “Human Intelligence Tasks” (HITs).The platform can only be used by project owners with a US-basedbank account.
Other microtask platforms
For non- U.S. based project owners and those looking to tapother worker pools there are a variety of other platforms includingClickworker, Microtask, ShortTask, and Samasource.
Service marketplaces
Some employers choose to post what are effectively microtaskprojects on to the larger service marketplaces, but here you will needto individually manage providers or teams.
Shiny Or's use of Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Jennifer Chin and Elizabeth Yin: "For Shiny Orb (wedding apparel), we ran two price tests. We first paid $0.03 to get the length,neckline, and sleeves classifications for each dress. For the second test,we decided to offer $0.01 for all three. We found no difference in quality,The downside to offering less compensation is that fewer workers do yourgigs, making it slower to receive results. Still, we had no problem gettingall dresses categorized within half a day. From our tests, clarity affec...
In the "The Classroom Flip" (2006), Tenneson and McGlasson presented an approach for teachers considering whether to flip their classrooms and how various approaches could enhance their teaching process, along. It also explores computer course
Open OEM - Project to build the first open source computer, Open Source Laptop. Pandora - a handheld game console designed to take advantage of existing open source software and to be a target for home-brew development. PC532 - a personal computer design based on the NS32532 microprocessor, released in 1990.
The Orb Project - an innovative new content management and platform for spreading open source philosophy in research. Orb is short for open research base. designbreak - open science and engineering non-profit, with a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration to address issues of health and poverty.
Category. : P2P Transition. The transition to a peer-to-peer (P2P) society implies that our relationships become less hierarchical (in the context of domination hierarchies, not hierarchies of empowerment), and increasingly between equals ; that is, between peers. Power is diffused and more 'distributed' across society.
