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- noun Any
system considered as a grouping of other, smaller systems
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If you focus on just messaging -- and realize that a good metasystem can late bind the various 2nd level architectures used in objects -- then much of the language-, UI-, and OS based discussions on this thread are really quite moot.
Multiplication is not repeated addition Bill Kerr 2009
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Taken together, these laws define a unifying identity metasystem that can offer the Internet the identity layer it so obviously requires.
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I think I recall also pointing out that it is vitally important not just to have a complete metasystem, but to have fences that help guard the crossing of metaboundaries.
Multiplication is not repeated addition Bill Kerr 2009
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The major trend in the evolution of signs is the increase of their complexity via development of new hierarchical levels, i.e., metasystem transitions Turchin 1977.
Archive 2007-08-01 Steven Barnes 2007
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The major trend in the evolution of signs is the increase of their complexity via development of new hierarchical levels, i.e., metasystem transitions Turchin 1977.
Biosemiotics? Steven Barnes 2007
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In a recent talk, Alan Kay who invented SmallTalk identifies the two most important things about LISP as its metasystem and late binding.
Archive 2006-02-01 Bill Kerr 2006
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In a recent talk, Alan Kay who invented SmallTalk identifies the two most important things about LISP as its metasystem and late binding.
LISP Bill Kerr 2006
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Kim Cameron has done a wonderful job of coming up with a metasystem whitepaper but too are leading us in a direction that is not ideal.
From Incite comes Insight...: The correct way to think about identity... James McGovern 2005
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Anyway, I hope that Kim Cameron has thought about making Sxip interoperable with the identity metasystem he is proposing.
From Incite comes Insight...: The correct way to think about identity... James McGovern 2005
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I really hope that Kim will push his bosses to create an open source reference implementation of the identity metasystem, otherwise I would encourage others to run in the opposite direction.
From Incite comes Insight...: The correct way to think about identity... James McGovern 2005
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