Keynote speaker

Abstract

Software to support collaboration is an extraordinary challenge to research, develop, and use because it is positioned between an immovable object and an irresistible force. The immovable object is human nature, which includes social behaviors that evolved over the millions of years our ancestors lived in groups. Advances in semi-conductor technology — the irresistible force — have followed an unparalleled exponential curve that makes forecasting difficult or impossible. I will describe several perspectives on this dilemma that have come to seem particularly useful or important to me in the two decades since I began working in this area as a system and application developer.