Builders Exchange Bend Oregon is an excellent Model for City Planning and Operation

An unusual entity relationship model was in my dreaming mind when I woke up this morning.  I grabbed it just before it fled into the nowhere it came from just to get something vague to associate what had been a clear  conversation with it that would not be remembered.  A key to open that conversation and reconstruct it at the keyboard.

The path of progress from the Industrial Age to the Information Age is a fascinating big picture  thing to look at.  My own view is this:  The Industrial Age built things.  It was preceded by the Industrial Revolution that kick started it.  The Information Age builds conceptual things.  An Information Revolution preceded it.

Revolutions aren't what they used to be when Paul Revere took his famous ride and pinned a date to the start:
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive 
Who remembers that famous day and year.

The Information Age is expressed as a relationship among Conceptual, Logical and Physical models.  The Industrial Age expressed itself the same way.  The product of that Age was real world physical stuff.  The "Physical Model" of the Information Age is a conceptual object thing that functions as a tool to build real enduser physical things but is also as a conceptual tool to build enduser conceptual things.

Builders Exchange is an excellent business model that functions to Construct real things using labor and materials.

That is key thing I grasped to remember what I had so clearly seen in high definition as it faded away: Builders Exchange for the Information Age.  That is all I needed to grasp and then run with at the keyboard at 4:00 int the morning and reconstruct logically what I had just seen so clearly but intuitively with my eyes still closed.

Score bragging rights!

Most of my million dollar ideas have already been thought.  A search on the exact phrase term "Builders Exchange for the Information Age" returned no results.  Bragging rights are worth more than a million bucks.  The size of self important bragging rights are judged by their uniqueness.  They can't merely be essentially a restatement of an existing idea in different terms.  However, seeing what everyone else sees but seeing beyond it to something nobody has yet seen is genius!

Maybe, maybe not.  To me it is a gold nugget in plain sight glimmering only to me. Oh, joy!

The general concept of a Builders Exchange for the Information Age to build conceptual things for end use can be seen in some examples.

Github for instance.  It is like an Open Source Builders Exchange.  The "Builders" in Github are called Developers.  Builders Exchange builds to cost as well.  Different code. Code applied to construct a building for private or public use.

In the construction world the building function begins with creating a conceptual design based on a conceptual purpose then implementing an Architectural Plan to create a real world thing.

Software building is not fundamentally different except it results in utilization to build conceptual  things as well as range of real things like buildings or end use conceptual things like Financial Management Programs or Hollywood movies.

Learning or doing something new is easier when it is built upon something we already know about and/or know how to do.  This is like that model of learning and doing.

The Information Age has expanded so far so fast that it is almost as hard to comprehend as the Big Bang Model.  When can be easily seen and understood is when time and space contract to a Time:Now and Place:Bend.  That is where conceptual world information meets the road on our own Wall Street.  When a conceptual map on an iPhone guide us to Home Depot to buy something that the website said was not only in stock but how many units at what price.

We are building conceptual things in Bend to implement as real and conceptual end use  things in Bend.  To some or perhaps a great extent we are using legacy systems to build them in the Public, Private and Non-Profit Domains.  Did I leave any major domain out?  They all interface in a total system with different relationships.

This is where it all gets as murky as the thing that eluded me when I woke up.  At this point I have gone as far as I can go climbing a tree to the moon.

The challenge is to put together real and conceptual things to build our community Bend.  We see the building going on all over town from streets to new buildings.  We see Builders doing that, hear the sounds of new construction.  Enjoy the use of things already built and operating.

Construction trades go to a Builders Exchange to participate in building our city.  What kind of an Exchange might be established as a place to go to participate in building and fixing the governance systems and public plans that serve us?

Really, how are Conceptual Systems of this nature built and maintained?

Getting real murky in the deep water here but it is a good question.

The challenge is to reduce complexity to simplicity.  It is a complex thing to build things and maintain them in our City.  We do it well in Bend employing many skilled people among us.

Designing conceptually from the top down and building from the bottom up is a good model.  Github builds from the bottom up knowing the end purpose Application in an Operating System.  We are all becoming more aware of the Operating System and Application Program relationship.  It provides a good model.  We comprehend the relationship in use of our computing devices (old school perception of what they really are) that are Information Devices.

Gotta bring this whole thing home to some pay off for spending time trying to flesh out what seemed so simply written on an intuitive wall.

Think and do about more building more purely conceptual things in our city that will serve us all better just like we thing and do about building and maintaining the physical things in our city.

The Information Age is built upon establishing a highly structured  Operating System for equally highly structured Applications Programs to run on.  The basic Operating of
Governance remains our foundation.  The computer world started out with a simple fundamental Operating System to connect real hardware operation to core conceptual abstractions in software.  Then the whole hardware/software system expanded to the point to both higher order as well as lower order relationships until it became difficult to distinguish the line between Operating System and Application Programs.  The line might be drawn by what a buyer pays for but the truth is that the higher level always serves the lower level client.

A nice idea but dysfunction is a bug and bugs are corrected by Feedback for correction at its own or higher level.

Effective Feedback, positive and negative is essential to system operation.

Perhaps the key to any system's health is operational Feedback.

There is no ambiguity in the Natural Real World.

Loop holes in conceptual systems like law are ambiguities that that offer self serving opportunities for private exploitation gain at public expense.

We know the oldest profession but the oldest game is private gain at someone else expense.

Private gain at someone else's expense on a one to one basis is done with a gun.

Private gain at public expense is cleverly done by tilting the playing field.