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the Big Carrot example proves there's a market for truly accurate data, but there's also a "simpler pilot project" waiting to be done: assembling Consudev: intermediate_pages
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::You know what?  Let me make some edits at [[user:DanKeshet/scratchpad]] and  see whether my vision fits with yours.  [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]] 02:14, 12 Mar 2004 (EET)
::You know what?  Let me make some edits at [[user:DanKeshet/scratchpad]] and  see whether my vision fits with yours.  [[User:DanKeshet|DanKeshet]] 02:14, 12 Mar 2004 (EET)
::You are correct that the original vision was "profoundly overengineered" in the hardware sense.  If you look at [[Hardware Requirements]] you see all kinds of hardware thrown at non-problems.  But that's been toned down somewhat, and there's thinking about [[audio]] and other [[terminal device]]s that already exist, that would not require hundreds of dollars of custom hardware per end user.  But there are stores like the [[Big Carrot]] that prove that there is a market for a complete and exact solution that really does offer some guarantees that the data is accurate.
::A "much simpler pilot project" would be to just assemble the [[Consumerium:intermediate page]]s.  That is roughly the scale of [[Metaweb]], which is doing exactly that.  There's no reason at all not to start that right now.


<sub>The logo is from [[w:Wikipedia:Village Pump]]</sub>
<sub>The logo is from [[w:Wikipedia:Village Pump]]</sub>
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