Yesterday
In the 40 years prior to 1876, a revolutionary technology dominated the American imagination, the telegraph. It let you send a message from San Francisco to New York in an afternoon. Before the telegraph, the same message took 45 days by steamship, 20 days by stagecoach or 11 days by Pony Express. All a sender had to do was find a telegraph operator with a device and knowledge of the necessary protocols then pay them to send it. Jay Gould leveraged Thomas Edison’s work to take control of America’s largest tech startup, the Union Pacific. The telegraph was magical but not without issues.
The primary one being that people had to convert their knowledge (what’s in their head) into information (what could be recorded) in order to communicate.
Soon the telegraph came to dominate commerce and every part of daily life.
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Today
While consensus looks to the technology of AI accelerating information exchange via the modern quadruplex. We look to the humanology of HI. We see new ways to connect HI
Today our communication is dominated
At Legup, we believe invention starts with humanology not technology.
Tomorrow
For the past few years, I’ve toiled away on communication humanology. A new way to exchange knowledge without creating information.
Our newest tool is called Ahoy, in a nod to a time when believed information exchange was the future but all of sudden knowledge exchange won out.
Ahoy is the world’s first Prompt Communicator. It’s a phone application that let’s you control communication over KenJack.
As the World Wide Web digitized the library. The Ken Jack digitizes the secretary.