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  1. Nov 2021
    1. We are also concerned primarily with human activity systems. One individual alone can rarely affect a situation that they are part of, in ways that bring about improvements. This is partly because of the unpredictable way in which human activity systems function, which cannot be anticipated, and partly because bringing about such improvements often requires collaboration or negotiation among individuals – interactions of a particular kind.

      community is more likely to make large-scale change than a single voice.

  2. Jun 2020
  3. Oct 2018
    1. We will solve large analytical problems by turning computer power loose on the hard data of the Semantic Web.

      The idea of turning something loose has the connotation that it is no longer under our control and can therefore have unpredictable outcomes. To a degree, no one can really predict what would happen if we reprogrammed the web in this new way.