Why content is context and the statisticians are so sexy ...
Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist, spricht in diesem McKinsey Interview auch über "free goods and the value of information." Im folgenden sind Hal Varians Aussagen kursiv, und meine Kommentare allesamt bold gehalten, obwohl sie kursiv / fragil gedacht wurden.
When we’re all networked, we all have access to the same documents, to the same capabilities, to this common infrastructure, and we can improve the way work—intellectual work, knowledge work—flows through the organization ...
Vorsicht: nicht alles ist Networking. Wer nur kommuniziert, kommt nicht mehr zum Nachdenken. vgl. dazu den Post: The End of Solitude

Now every document has at the bottom, “Copyright 2008. Click here to send to your friends.” So there’s already been a big revolution in how we view intellectual property. So it’s not so much the question of what’s owned or what’s not owned. It’s a question of how can you leverage the assets you have to realize the most value ...
I think that the availability of these very inexpensive platforms you’re creating, in disseminating content, means that it’s become intensely competitive. The content is as valuable as it ever was, it’s just the competition that’s pushed the prices down to something that approximates zero. So it’s not something that the content producers necessarily embrace, but it’s something they’re forced into by the nature of the technological change ...
We have to look at today’s economy and say, “What is it that’s really scarce in the Internet economy?” And the answer is attention. Herb Simon recognized this many years ago. He said, “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” So being able to capture someone’s attention at the right time is a very valuable asset. And Google really has built an entire business around this, because we’re capturing your attention when you’re doing a search for something you’re interested in. That’s the ideal time to show you an advertisement for a product that may be related or complimentary to what your search is all about ...
Das Problem: in einer Kultur, die Content nur mehr über den Aufmerksamkeitserregungsfaktor (attention, here I am!!!!) identifiziert, haben Zwischentöne keine Chance mehr, gehört zu werden. Wenn alles nur mehr über die Quote / die Zugriffe läuft, verliert Content seinen Gebrauchswert, ist nur mehr Tauschwert in einem völlig abgehobenen Geschäft. vgl. dazu den Post über Peter Weibel.
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the 1990s? The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids. Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it ...
Der Punkt: sexy sind immer noch jene Leute, die die Welt interpretieren und nicht die, die Zahlen / Daten schaufeln. Denn wir dürsten immer noch nach Information UND nach Geschichten, und wir ersticken immer noch in Daten / Zahlen und unnützem Zeug, das wir rund um uns ansammeln wie einen Schutzwall gegen das existenzielle Rauschen.
When we’re all networked, we all have access to the same documents, to the same capabilities, to this common infrastructure, and we can improve the way work—intellectual work, knowledge work—flows through the organization ...
Vorsicht: nicht alles ist Networking. Wer nur kommuniziert, kommt nicht mehr zum Nachdenken. vgl. dazu den Post: The End of Solitude

Now every document has at the bottom, “Copyright 2008. Click here to send to your friends.” So there’s already been a big revolution in how we view intellectual property. So it’s not so much the question of what’s owned or what’s not owned. It’s a question of how can you leverage the assets you have to realize the most value ...
I think that the availability of these very inexpensive platforms you’re creating, in disseminating content, means that it’s become intensely competitive. The content is as valuable as it ever was, it’s just the competition that’s pushed the prices down to something that approximates zero. So it’s not something that the content producers necessarily embrace, but it’s something they’re forced into by the nature of the technological change ...
We have to look at today’s economy and say, “What is it that’s really scarce in the Internet economy?” And the answer is attention. Herb Simon recognized this many years ago. He said, “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” So being able to capture someone’s attention at the right time is a very valuable asset. And Google really has built an entire business around this, because we’re capturing your attention when you’re doing a search for something you’re interested in. That’s the ideal time to show you an advertisement for a product that may be related or complimentary to what your search is all about ...
Das Problem: in einer Kultur, die Content nur mehr über den Aufmerksamkeitserregungsfaktor (attention, here I am!!!!) identifiziert, haben Zwischentöne keine Chance mehr, gehört zu werden. Wenn alles nur mehr über die Quote / die Zugriffe läuft, verliert Content seinen Gebrauchswert, ist nur mehr Tauschwert in einem völlig abgehobenen Geschäft. vgl. dazu den Post über Peter Weibel.
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the 1990s? The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids. Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it ...
Der Punkt: sexy sind immer noch jene Leute, die die Welt interpretieren und nicht die, die Zahlen / Daten schaufeln. Denn wir dürsten immer noch nach Information UND nach Geschichten, und wir ersticken immer noch in Daten / Zahlen und unnützem Zeug, das wir rund um uns ansammeln wie einen Schutzwall gegen das existenzielle Rauschen.
coyote05 - 30. Jan, 09:54





