Asynchronous Communication Quotes

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

What I love about Twitter specifically is that reciprocity is not guaranteed, nor expected. In other words, I can go one way. I can put things out. I don't have to respond to everybody.

I communicate with my commissioners quite often. Rather than call them and not know if they are going to be there at that time, I can just sit down and bang out a couple of sentences, send it off, and I'll have the answer within a matter of minutes if they are around, or in hours if they are not.

Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.

Answering phones synchronously is very different than reading an email, sorting it, figuring out which bucket it goes in, and then responding.

I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.