It follows that the essentially infrastructural concern can realistically only 'limit' itself to — a method for — facilitating requisite variety, thereby allowing for specific interactional meaning(s) as requiring by the particular stakeholders/participants involved.

in: note 47.4

 

Indeed, there is a growing need for such codified signs where people are still unacquainted — or lack the time for mutual recognition — when they could benefit from coordinating their behaviors. In Dutch, the term “verkeer” has the general meaning of, say, interactivity (likewise in German: Verkehr). Only one of its more specific meanings is what in English is “traffic.” An equivalent English term, similarly general as “verkeer,” I don’t know. So, I’ve merely tried to suggest one by mentioning interactivity.

in: note 56.4

 

[I]t will just not work to model and so on to deliver information from a particular organization out, and especially not enforcing so-called standardized meanings. [… F]or necessary and sufficient differentiation covering all stakeholders with their varied interests et cetera, first of all modeling should be done from the outside-in, with the[m] participating equitably in information exchange at the much wider scale. [… A]n enlightened organization will take the lead for such a, say, infrastructural approach, it already on the short term very much being in its own interest, too (if not especially in its own interest for whatever period of time).

in: note 71.2

 

The metaphor of a roundabout I find quite apt since digital technologies are no longer only used for processing information locally, i.e., separately facilitating single applications/systems, but more and more for information exchange, too. In an order(ing) sense, information therefore has also very much become a matter of — regulating — traffic.

in: note 71.8

 

Traditionally, at least that is how I see it, putting digital technologies to our practical use is about programming so-called applications, with information and especially what it is supposed to mean largely taken for granted. That is an outdated approach, as digital technologies nowadays facilitate instantaneous interconnection of information resources. The crisis in digitization is therefore due to people remaining blind to the both limited and limiting nature of the application programming paradigm. More of the same never helps when problems have become qualitatively different from what they were.

in: note 71.40