On the eve of Dassault Systèmes’ European Customer Forum 2009, “Virtual Concept > Real Profit with Digital Manufacturing and Simulation” was launched in Disneyland Paris. More information on this new book you can find here.

Below is a short video impression, featuring the authors, industry experts who appear in the book and other key people who made this publication possible.

Order your copy or download the pdf version of the book at www.virtual-real.com.

Supportive of our VC>RP book’s Future Chapter is this Microsoft vision on manufacturing:

Jaap Bloem
www.twitter.com/MeTheMedia
Rise of the Conversation Society, the Collab Economy,
and the Virtualization of the World

Some fifteen years ago, biological metaphors like “swarm intelligence” were the common indicators of a techno-optimistic era. The most prominent and explicit of phrases at that time undoubtedly was the subtitle of Kevin Kelly’s book “Out of Control” (1994). It visionarily read: “The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.”

Today, thanks to the Internet and an abundance of digital data we are arriving at this new technology-based trinity of Sociology, Ecology and Economy, which we might call People, Planet, Profit 2.0. Its essence is the biological notion of Mutualistic Symbiosis, and therefore we are in need of a new metric. I would suggest to call this the Mutualistic Symbiosis Quotient. Reaching consensus on such a score would sound like MUSYQ to my ears

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Kicking off the foundation for a MUSYQ 360 view would necessarily involve: Social Responsibility, Stakeholder Selection, Social Intelligence, Social Quotient, Mutualism, Symbiosis, Industrial Ecology, Industrial Symbiosis, Social Media, Webscience.org, Sustainability, Ethics, Transparency, Return On Investment/Involvement), PPP 2.0 Domains, Intra & Interorganizational Sweet Spots,  . . .

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/social_intelligence.htm
http://ablebrains.typepad.com/ablebrains/2008/07/whats-your-social-quotient-a-method-for-assessing-social-media-risk.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology)
http://books.google.nl/books?id=3sKzeiHUIUQC
http://www.givaudan.com.br/media/symbiosis_g.gif
http://blogs.imediaconnection.com/uploads/Social-Media-Symbiosis.JPG
http://www.webscience.org
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Industrial_symbiosis
http://www.appropedia.org/Industrial_symbiosis_literature_review
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146%2Fannurev.energy.25.1.313
http://www.lcm2007.org/paper/51_2.pdf
http://www.smart2020.org
http://www.wcit2010.com

Jaap Bloem
www.twitter.com/MeTheMedia
Rise of the Conversation Society, the Collab Economy,
and the Virtualization of the World

“Swarm robots” in the Symbrion project (Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms)

In the New Journal of Physics (Dec 10, 2009, full PDF available) Sebastian Bernhardsson, Luis Enrique Correa da Rocha and Petter Minnhagen explore the idea that the systematic text-length dependence can be described by a meta book concept, which is an abstract representation reflecting the word-frequency structure of a text. According to this concept the word-frequency distribution of a text, with a certain length written by a single author, has the same characteristics as a text of the same length extracted from an imaginary complete infinite corpus written by the same author.

From their article “The meta book and size-dependent properties of written language:”

“The writing of a text can be described by a process where the author pulls a piece of text out of a large mother book (the meta book) and puts it down on paper. This meta book is an imaginary infinite book that gives a representation of the word-frequency characteristics of everything that a certain author could ever think of writing. This has nothing to do with semantics and the actual meaning of what is written, but rather concerns the extent of the vocabulary, the level and type of education, and the personal preferences of an author. The fact that people have such different backgrounds, together with the seemingly different behavior of the function N(M) for the different authors, opens up the speculation that everyone has a personal and unique meta book, in which case it can be seen as an author’s fingerprint.”

Jaap Bloem