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== summary == | == summary == | ||
Here's a summary of anticipated '''Consumerium Services | Here's a summary of anticipated '''Consumerium Services''': | ||
:Ideally, Consumerium [[ | :Ideally, the Consumerium [[Signal Wiki]] would affect institutional and wholesale buyers at various times. [[Consumerium Service access]] could take place for instance at the point of decision about wholesale supply, or the setting of [[institutional buying criteria]]. But this is disciplined by the knowledge that end users will have similar access and be able to judge the intermediary or institution by their [[individual buying criteria]]. ''See for example the [[Big Carrot]] example.'' For those that have such criteria that are not likely to be fully expressed already on the [[retail shelf]]: | ||
:The [[Consumerium buying signal]] will most likely be seen by the [[end user]] as a [[red light|red]]/[[yellow light|yellow]]/[[green light]] traffic-type signal, or as a [[score]] easily translated into a [[price premium]], or as a note in [[Simple English]] about issues with, or merits of, the product. Release of this advice is keyed to [[bar code]]s or [[RFID]]s or [[NFC]]s (collectively, [[ID tag]]s. | :The [[Consumerium buying signal]] will most likely be seen by the [[end user]] as a [[red light|red]]/[[yellow light|yellow]]/[[green light]] traffic-type signal, or as a [[score]] easily translated into a [[price premium]], or as a note in [[Simple English]] about issues with, or merits of, the product. Release of this advice is keyed to [[bar code]]s or [[RFID]]s or [[NFC]]s (collectively, [[ID tag]]s. It may occur at [[retail shelf]] or [[checkout counter]] where the labels are most commonly referenced. | ||
These rely on internal structures of some complexity: | |||
:There are several ways to connect back to front end: we may rely on frequently updated data embedded in hand-held devices, and/or dynamic retrieval via [[short-range wireless]] to the shelf front. Where possible, reasons for making buying decisions, or refusing a certain product, will go as [[feedback]] to the [[producer]]s. | :There are several ways to connect back to front end: we may rely on frequently updated data embedded in hand-held devices, and/or dynamic retrieval via [[short-range wireless]] to the shelf front. Where possible, reasons for making buying decisions, or refusing a certain product, will go as [[feedback]] to the [[producer]]s. | ||
:Our back end relies on [[ | :Our back end relies on [[Research Wiki]] comments compiled by software using a [[wikitext standard]]. [[Consumerium Service access]] where web use is convenient may well include direct [[research edit]]ing, not just access to signals. ''See [[ConsuML]] and [[Consumerium:intermediate page format]] for more on this. [[Semantic link]] standards may be required also. To work out the conventions and issues involved, we are working through a [[development wiki]] which presently also performs the research functions (but not signals, we offer no buying advice here, yet).'' | ||
''This is that wiki. We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below. Any page can be edited by anyone, or restored to a previous state by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation.'' | ''This is that wiki. We invite you to participate by editing proposals and discussions below. Any page can be edited by anyone, or restored to a previous state by anyone, which is the convention we assume will also apply in operation.'' | ||
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== Analysis == | == Analysis == | ||
From the consumption perspective Consumerium is about enabling a shift from affective buying behaviour based on illusions to affective buying behaviour based on [[features|information]] on the social and environmental impacts of the production and naturally the perceived quality of the product. | From the consumption perspective Consumerium is about enabling a shift from affective buying behaviour based on illusions (e.g. from [[advertising]]) to affective buying behaviour based on [[features|information]] on the social and environmental impacts of the production and naturally the perceived quality of the product. | ||
Since this is mostly subjective, or assumed subjective in a market economy, the major focus of analysis is the tension between [[institutional buying criteria]] and [[individual buying criteria]]. This tension drives the system, as the individuals pressure the institution to anticipate their detailed needs. There are further tensions between the [[society]] and the [[planet]] that host all activities involved in achieving the [[comprehensive outcome]] of any one purchase. | |||
A [[healthy signal infrastructure]] is the ideal foundation for delivery of the signals about this tension. However, it too must be purchased piece by piece, and integrated. And there are [[moral purchasing]] choices here too, for instance, to avoid using [[tantallum]] in the [[infrastructural capital]] required to use the system, to adhere to a [[DC power standard]] to reduce transformers and use of [[power grid]]s, to [[cut energy use]] and [[e-waste]] as much as possible; Also to encourage perhaps use of open, lower-attention overhead tools like [[Python]] (11 lines of Python can replace 1000 of C++, and our [[Consumerium:developer]]s have [[better things to do than coding]] anyway). | |||
So a degree of healthy buying is necessary in order to increase the credibility of the buying process, and to [[bootstrap services]] into global use: | |||
== Infrastructure == | == Infrastructure == | ||