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Back to the roots. If email is the past, is Google Wave the future?

by johanna kollmann

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Talk, UXCampLondon 2009. ...

Talk, UXCampLondon 2009.
I talked about how digital technology enables secondary orality - a more natural way of communicating. I applied these ideas to Google Wave and discussed its potential to become the collaboration tool for the tribe of digital natives.

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UXCampLondon #1 Johanna Kollmann - @johannakoll Back to the roots. If email is the past, is Google Wave the future?

„ Orality is the base of all human experience.“ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sanjayausta/3345622099/ Lance Strate

„ Oral communication unites people in groups.“ Walter J. Ong http://www.flickr.com/photos/donncha/260452213/

“ Orality is participatory, interactive, communal and focused on the present. The Web is all of these things.” Irwin Chen

In a tribe, people are close to each other. They know what others do and who they interact with.

Digital communication tools are developing into communication enablers: back to the roots.

Secondary orality: - instant communication, despite its use of the written word. - ideas are shared and repeated.

Die, email, die. Traditional email inhibits our natural way of communication.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jabiz/2169495907/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellylwatson/103969250/ Personal emails vs. letters

Evolution: interfaces of communications:

So what about the art of writing and the need to create universal knowledge ?

Now, the Wave. Is it the next step towards secondary orality? Will it turn business email into a collaboration tool? Will it turn conversations into accessible knowledge?

https://www.google.com/a/wavesandbox.com/