CIC-Start

CIC is the combined exponential power of Creativity, Information, and Communication.


 * The following excerpt is from "The 29th Day" by George L. Berry & Peter A. Berry.
 * 'We thought we were living in a stable, non-accelerating linear world. We are not. We are living in an unstable, accelerating, exponential world. Now, in the 21st century, for the first time in history, this changes everything.'
 * 'Why and why now? It is because the hyper-accelerated development of communication and computing technologies has unleashed a powerful exponential force.'

George called this force CIC (kick). He listed two primary effects.
 * 1) CIC transfers power from institutions to individuals.
 * 2) CIC speeds up the rate of change exponentially.

George discusses the nature of Risk. With exponential change, bad things can quickly compound. If we catch the risk early and apply the right lever before disaster strikes, we can change our path and our future.

The SignWriting Icon Server
The SignWriting Icon Server (SWIS) is ready to deploy. We use SWIS to see the signs and query the data. There are 2 primary SignWriting Icon Server in use today: one on SignBank.org and another on Wikimedia Labs.

Central Server
The copy of SWIS on SignBank.org is considered the central server. This site hosts all of the SignWriting Text that is available.

Remote Server
Any SWIS installation can be set up as a remote server. Simply pull a copy of the data files from the central server at regular intervals.

Agent Server
If a community desires to take ownership of their data, we can discuss an agent server. The community that makes the request would host a special SWIS installation for their language. The center server on SignBank would periodically pull copies of their data. Their data would always be available from the central server as a read only copy.

Mitigating Risk
With the SignPuddle Infrastructure, I am trying to mitigate risk.

With creativity, information, and communication, we can get the SignWriting Icon Server hosted all around the world. The risk that the infrastructure will fail or will not be able to scale will be gone.