I use the world “application” in a very broad sense (not just limited to a software “app” you install on your smartphone though the boundaries are fuzzy in today’s cloud computing era)
I believe in software/hardware co-design, there currently is a need for the design of a foundation of hardware (esp complex in the form of Semiconductors) to support software, which together - represent applications.
Software intrigues me
most notably, I am support this era of collaborative, personal knowledge management (I will create an acronym of “cPKM” to distinguish from the silo effort of PKM). Roam Research is a company I watch here inside the vision of the next generation of our web/internet that is more contextual in nature
I care about Knowledge Graphs and leveraging new standards to interconnect our data.
I want to build an iPad autobio app to leverage much of the work I’ve done around publishing my own Autobiography and enhancing its user interface and helping others capture their own histories in a meaningful way.
I care we stitch together the “best” pieces (call it “wisdom” if you will) of various platforms over the years: Tiddlyspace, Rizzoma, Co-human, TheBrain, Notion, Roam Research, Discourse, Slack, netnews and RSS readers, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Goodreads, research projects like the Dilberatorium, platforms I am overdue on exploring: Protege
It is the application of such software to organize the conversations around relevant social issues and design and build prototypes and solutions to solve the world’s most challenging problems.
I seem to care most about software development process, integration and deployment.
How do we discover these next generation apps together and how is this process collaborative and “democratic” in the sense that anyone is able to participate in this process without it being total chaos? (if it is it chaotic, how do we make sense of the chaos?)