back to the roots. if email is the past, is google wave the future?
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Talk, UXCampLondon 2009. I talked about how digital technology enables secondary orality - a more natural way of communicating. I applied these ideas to Google Wave and discussed its potential to become the collaboration tool for the tribe of digital natives.TRANSCRIPT
UXCampLondon #1Johanna Kollmann - @johannakoll
Back to the roots. If email is the past, is Google Wave the future?
„Orality is the base of all human experience.“
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjayausta/3345622099/
Lance Strate
„Oral communication unites people in groups.“ Walter J. Ong
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donncha/260452213/
“Orality is participatory, interactive, communal and focused on the present.The Web is all of these things.” Irwin Chen
In a tribe, people are close to each other. They know what others do and who they interact with.
Digital communication tools are developing into communication enablers: back to the roots.
Secondary orality: - instant communication, despite its use of the written word. - ideas are shared and repeated.
Die, email, die.Traditional email inhibits our natural way of communication.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jabiz/2169495907/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellylwatson/103969250/
Personal emails vs. letters
Evolution: interfaces of communications:
So what about the art of writing and the need to create universal knowledge?
Now, the Wave.Is it the next step towards secondary orality? Will it turn business email into a collaboration tool?Will it turn conversations into accessible knowledge?
https://www.google.com/a/wavesandbox.com/