The following figure illustrates how for a series of divergent innovations interpreted as sustaining and radical in the market
Continuous innovation grows the ontology in a Bayesian space
Inserts successive ontons, ontological sortables, into the ontology, while growing a Markovian process simultaneously
The reaching of commoditization and the shift to a new vector of differentiation, which together crates widely separated and distinct markets that are inaccessible to each other, because of the cultures of the populations involved
Learning barriers that accompany new ontons and new vectors of differentiation
The next graphic shows how the amount of memory involved in a process, here shown as distance or radius, determines whether a process is Bayesian or Markovian...
The figure below shows how
Convergent innovations combine members of two separate cultures into a new culture that is likely to differentiate itself from both of its parent cultures...
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Miniaturized, the 400 square miles of the San Francisco Bay, the land surrounding it, and the immediate ocean beyond it are compressed into what still looks huge - 1.5 indoor acres.
Every 3.8 minutes a tide change occurs, drawing off and replenishing about 180,000 gallons of water. Exquisite little bridges - the Golden Gate, SF-Oakland Bay, San Mateo, Dunbarton, Carquinez - cross the waters, which, to scale, are barely inches deep.
I went to visit the San Francisco Bay Model with my camera to ask if the model could in any way depict the possible impacts of sea level rise. There's a lot of agreement among most climatologists today that the sea will rise at least 2 feet by 2050. Maybe as much as 20 feet.
The two U.S. Army Corps of Engineer guides looked at me blankly when I asked. The older one informed me that the model was not built for that purpose - in fact, its main purpose was to examine the potential impact of oil spills in the Bay - and more to the point, the scale was so small that differences of even 20 feet in high tides would barely show up on the model. The land portion did not include enough detail to show how a highway or neighborhood would be flooded.
So, with those heavy issues laid to rest, I simply enjoyed the wonder that a team of people built this amazing exhibit.