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Dimensions of Tech x Team Processes
(Note - helps/opportunities/challenges may match to [[Peter Seely]]'s [[process facilitation]], [[process expansion]], [[process impairment]])
Scribbles on dimensions of technology
`update - Seely's pieces of facilitation, expansion, etc are probably not limited to just augmented intelligence. This should fit with AI and communication richness as well. So maybe it's part of how we overlay these 3 dimensions onto the taxonomy of team/mts processes.` Of course, these examples are tools that were not merely useful, they were transformative. Most technologies that are useful tools help us improve existing processes, in [[process facilitation]] (Seely, 2015). Others are more useful, expanding the boundaries of what is possible and opening up new ways we can work, in [[process expansion]] (Seely, 2015). Simultaneous live document editing is one such technology, changing the way a team can draft documents, allowing them to view thinking of the other and providing context to every comment. And a few technologies have the power to be truly transformative. It is difficult to predict what these technologies will look like, and sometimes it is difficult to perceive how an emerging technology might be the next truly transformative tool. Perhaps [[augmented reality]], where we can introduce spatial and visual elements into our world and pin them in places we can return to, is this next tool. But the difficulty of prediction is part of the point: At the highest levels, technology as a tool is not merely useful. At the highest levels, a technology gives rise to an [[emergent phenomenon]], and truly transforms our thought. If we could predict this, if we could articulate the paradigm change we desired, the [tool would not truly be transformative]([[transformative tool for thought]]), for we would already think that way ([Matuschak & Nielsen, 2019]([[How can we develop transformative tools for thought?]])).
process expansion