Another quick and dirty Clique Space(TM) description.

I wrote the following in a letter to someone, and I think it does a good job at giving the reader a basic understanding of my concept. The description is very quick, and, unlike this one, perhaps forsakes a lot of detail in an attempt to keep it within reach of the reader's attention. Here it is...

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I'll give you a run-down about what Clique Space is supposed to be. A Clique Space is a cluster of Agent Devices. Agent Devices talk to each other by opening channels - forming logical synapses - between themselves. An Agent Device can accept connections to different external devices depending on whether the Agent Device can support the medium that the external device uses. Any device at all, so long as it can exchange state information with another device, is a candidate for connecting to an Agent Device.

Every device is a device in Clique Space. This includes Agent Devices; they're nothing special in terms of what Clique Space is supposed to model. At any instant in time, any device that is collaborating with one or more other devices is modeled in Clique Space as a Participant in a Clique. A Clique can therefore have two or more member participants. One participant is the Clique's owner.

This is what I think is going on in real time in our brains (neurons form Cliques which grow, shrink and disband and move like pseudopods throughout one's whole nervous system) and my Clique Space hypothesis, if I can prove that it at least works, may go on to show how one can get devices (or, rather, clusters of devices) to behave like people [10 April 2013 edit: who are really just clusters of devices otherwise known as cells]). I think the Agent Device is a synthetic equivalent of a neuron; and will demonstrate the functional necessity of the neuron, the synapse, the neurotransmitter, and various other structural features of biological nervous systems we know exist.

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Whatever description I could put in writing, I don't think I could cover the concept as comprehensively as I could if I disclosed the code. Yet, so far, the code I have is incomplete, and so the code does not even comprehensively cover the concept as it exists in my mind. Maybe sometime, I'll be able to present an implementation, and therefore prove the concept works.

Telework and CEO stupidity.

Clique Space(TM) came about because I wanted a system that informed others of my real-time activity over anything that can connect to and exchange information with a Clique Space. However, in this short blog entry, I will talk of my frustrations - frustrations which mothered my invention. I'm going to offer a brief opinion on how Yahoo's chief executive made a strategic decision last week that bordered on insane for its lack of forethought.

Technology created to realise of a mode of work that society has long desired, exists in a society that levels blame at the feet of this mode whenever things unrelated to it need to be fixed. The fact that an edict can come down to rescind a telework condition from employees, as though it were a light switch that is tuned on and off at the whims of a micromanager looking for something other than management philosophy to demonise, only underscores the blatant wanton stupidity of some who have been selected into executive positions.

Someday, I hope telework will become a condition that is not subject to the whims of micromanaging idiots. Maybe someday, and organisation called The Clique Space Organisation will provide a sanctuary for development teams to produce quality software without a CEO who wants to blame flagging revenues and market share on the fuzzy notion that telework isn't "what is right for [The Clique Space Organisation] right now".

Employees at Yahoo who find their telework restored can only look forward to the privilege being removed again whenever the CEO wants to be seen to be addressing another unrelated problem. Fix the real cause of your company's problem Marissa Mayer; it sure as hell isn't telework.

Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York city is reported to have said that telework is “one of the dumber ideas I’ve ever heard.”. I think that you, Mr Bloomberg, are an anachronism waiting for time to wash away.

Two more proprietary claims.

In addition to these claims, I make the following in relation to terms used in Clique Space(TM).

• The Clique Space Sovereign or the term "Sovereign" as it would appear in relationship to the discussion of Clique Space or any related concept.
• The Clique Space Mode Profile or the term "Mode Profile" as it would appear in relationship to the discussion of Clique Space or any related concept.

These new claims are new terms I have chosen to express the concepts labelled Axle and Account Profile of the previous post respectively.The existing claims still stand.