Create an Extensible Persistent Augmented Social Cognition Mindspace

It appears to me that the extraordinary attendees of Singularity Summit 3 have the opportunity to create something on a scale that has not yet ever existed. For lack of a better term we can refer to it as an Extensible Persistent Augmented Social Cognition Mindspace (ASCM). I saw someone tweet the idea of keyboard-mediated Digital Mental Telepathy. However you prefer to conceptualize it, the opportunity that appears to us here is to provide a specific space for SAM (Singularity Audience Mind) to keep thinking in a manner and fashion that we all experienced during the summit itself. For now, that space is #samthinks.

1640PDT 26Oct08 UPDATE: Apparently in between uplifting new civilizations in SPORE on a lazy post-summit Sunday afternoon, and while the markets were all closed and nobody could protest, @silverton and @elbizri has a little fun drafting a quick story of evolution from the lexically aesthetic, but 10 character-heavy #samthinks to the 60% information payload improvement of #samz

It's worth noting that I fully recognize the quality of immediacy by which a physical conference creates a field that significantly focuses the behavior of the participants within the ASCM. We might experiment with other timed, scheduled, planned, and impromptu online means and methods to emulate that immediacy, moving forward.

Or, we might be able to pose some challenging question in the context of, "I wonder what Sam thinks?" and learn that answer relatively quickly, if partially, as only portions of SAM might be alert, firing, and available for handling an individual interrupt request at any given time.

Or it could simply not prove worthwhile at all. Remember, a FAIL case is nothing but that, a signal to end one process and spawn another. FAIL is particularly GOOD when you can quantify it and flag it without wasting cycles, right?

Feel free to share the tinyURL for this idea http://tinyurl.com/samthinks with others whom you believe might be interested.

UPDATE: The "perfection appeal" of having a custom tinyurl that matched the rest of the program gave way to the argument for maximum carrying capacity for individual messages. While that URL will still work, here's the samz version http://tiny.cc/samz

UPDATE: @mcmurrak points out that I also missed registering @samz ;-(

UPDATE: Multi-topic or -domain version of the experiment possible with TweetGrid.


Onward.