Comments on: Attention Operating System

By: cori

cori — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 04:44:07 +0000

FWIW, Dave, there is an attention plug-in (of a sort) for IE7: the GestureBank has published an alpha of a recorder.

It doesn’t (yet, I must assume) offer the same level of control over attention recording that the Firefox extension does; it only sends the data it captures to GestureBank, but I am given to understand that it eventually be open-sourced…..

By: relaxedguy

relaxedguy — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:52:06 +0000

Point taken. I was reacting to the unpolished techno-jargon and the fact that I don’t think it does anyone any good to think of what we are doing as an operating system, but we all frame new ideas in our own comfortable language.

There was a time where I was more interested in the systems that drive these ideas, whereas today I work with companies driving consumer adoption of Intention/Attention economy-driven services and am more involved with bridging the conversation between marketers and the technologists rolling out the first generation of attention/intention services.

By: edbatista

edbatista — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:47:21 +0000

To be fair, Dave, I noted that “I couldn’t pretend to understand it all if I wanted to. But I’ve come to trust that when Steve’s at his most opaque, he’s talking about something that matters.”

I still don’t fully understand it all, and I don’t agree with all of Steve’s ideas that I DO understand. But I’m sure he’s onto something important.

I think some of your cautionary points are well-taken, particularly around how to communicate these ideas more effectively, a very important topic I also discussed recently.