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Big Data, Serious Games and the Future of Work
Michael Hugos CIO at Large
Center for Systems Innovation [c4si]
Simple abstractions served well when data was scarce, collection was intermittent, and we had lots of time to analyze it
These abstractions live in two dimensions – X and Y – they live in Flatland
“You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an infinite number of Circles… You cannot indeed see more than one of my sections, or Circles, at a time; for you have no power to raise your eye out of the plane of Flatland...” Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, 1884
Sphere as seen in Flatland – drawing by A. Square
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions… a
“It is always nighttime in the Metaverse, and the Street is always garish and brilliant like Las
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• Sysco is wide and flat. WW Grainger is tall and narrower – name those shapes • Grainger has much higher ratio of net tangible assets to total assets • Sysco has total liabilities four times as large as Grainger and net tangible assets slightly smaller than those of Grainger
Presentation excerpted from my newest book:
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Serious Games
The Future of Work