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Horn, R. E. (2001). Knowledge mapping for complex social messes. A
presentation to the Foundations in the Knowledge Economy at the David
and Lucille Packard Foundation, July 16, 2001. Available at: http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/SpchPackard.html
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Demonstrates Knowledge Maps as a way of providing an overview of
complex social problems. In some sense these are augmentation tools in
the style of of Doug Engelbart. "Wicked problems" are exactly the sort
of problem he wants to solve.
These tools appear to play on the human ablility to discern and absorb
connective patterns where there isn't necessarily any algorithmic
pattern. Here again we have the fuzziness of categories, the spark of
qualia and the general idea of knowledge in a glance.
It's not surprising then that the apparent primary goal of
augmentation oriented people is to provide knowledge displays of some
kind. Dynamic Knowledge Repositories (DKRs), knowledge maps,
hyperscopes.
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