The Network:

1. Walden 3-D is encouraging the growth of a multi-dimensional network of minds (diversified by profession, geography, ethnicity, experience, age, interest, etc.), and undertaking to focus the team on hermeneutics, or improving the world through technology. This effort involves integration of information, which occurs through cooperation of individuals with a track record of encouraging and working of projects that make a difference. The first significant test was a remote slide-projector and phone teleconference on 28 December 1990 (see the next page for participants), using the LYNK all purpose communication device. CompuServe, UUNET, video conferencing and other communication systems are being tested as viable medium for the network. The LYNK synchronizes any number of identical audio-visual devices in remote locations using standard phone lines. This allows all participants see the same presentation simultaneously. It also allows a presentation to be given to a group in Singapore (or anyplace else you can call in the world) from the presenter's house in Houston (or from where ever you can call). Duplicate copies of slides, video, optical or computer images are sent to each site in advance by overnight mail. Teleconference calls over standard telephone lines allow remote presentations and distance learning at minimum cost. The advantages of this system are great in that a single ordinary telephone line can be used to transmit both speech and visual command signals at enormous cost savings over video transmission. The Network: 026

2. Gordon Young 28 December 1990 11:00 AM Houston Time Townsend Dunn Who participated in the first Lynk teleconference? Rick Duran Ray Gardner Bill Klein Jean Jacques Grimaud Medard Gabel Jim Walker Bill Bavinger Mic Patterson Laura Pankonien Cara White Bowen Loftin Victor Lamanuzzi Tracy Stark Lloyd Warner Alf Klaveness Bill Prince Chris Schmidt Sherry Sump Roice Nelson Bill Rollwitz Steve Starr Chuck Edwards 92048

3. Walden 3-D 'sVision: Creating a multi-dimensional network of minds for planning 3-D Intelligent Cities or, in other words, Integrating information to simulate, demonstrate, and document living within the available cosmic-energy savings account.

4. To lead a revolution in urban planning through information technologies. The planned end result is the development of cost-effective and ecologically sound three-dimensional cities. These new communities will provide the highest and best land use, juxtaposing a large building mass with nature to benefit both, while maximizing utilization of finite resources. The projects will accommodate a greatly increased population compared to the population on an equivalent footprint in one of today's conventional housing developments. The new complexes will use state-of-the art concepts in energy conservation, waste treatment and recycling. Living units will "plug" into an intelligent network providing residents with complete environmental control and access to information worldwide, encouraging information-based decision-making and scrupulous democracy. Walden 3-D 'sMission

5. Tune the design so that the completed form system will perform optimally within the natural system The Objective Eliminate all conflict between the two basic systems Design with nature and not away from nature Live with nature and not off nature

6. Site Hierarchy Rainfall Vegetation Erosion Drainage Water Wind Access Hydrology Climate Views Temp./Hum. Sunlight Physiography Context Contours Boundaries Noise Buildings Rocks Legal Geology Zoning Soil Utilities Zoning Easements Physical Characteristics

7. Quote from The Laws of Form,by G. Spencer Brown "The theme of this book is that a universe comes into being when a space is served or taken apart. The skin of a living organism cuts off an outside from an inside. So does the circumference of a circle in a plane. By tracing the way we represent such a severance, we can begin to reconstruct, with an accuracy and coverage that appear almost uncanny, the basic forms underlying linguistic, mathematical, physical, and biological science, and can begin to see how the familiar laws of our own experience follow inexorably from the original act of severance. The act is itself already remembered, even if unconsciously, as our first attempt to distinguish different things in a world where, in the first place, the boundaries can be drawn anywhere we please." 026

8. Providing Built Form for Walden 3-D Projects ASI Advanced Structures Incorporated Implementing Innovative Building Technology Mic Patterson President & CEO Advanced Structures Incorporated 4094 Glencoe Ave Marina Del Ray, CA 90292-5608 (310) 301-1984 E-Mail: Patterson@asidesign.com 021092063

9. What is the information equivalent to Henry Ford's Assembly Line? TheGap ? ? ? Systems of Information Delivery of Product The Information Bridge 002

10. M H yper edia unlocking information barriers C orporation HyperMedia Corporation P.O. Box 382 Barker, TX 77413 (291) 579-0172 FAX (281) 579-2141 info@walden3d.com Providing Information Handling Solutions for Walden 3-D Projects 021092062

11. HyperMedia Products: • Do not alter the original data • Do not require a data conversion • Reflect user terminology • Access extremely large amounts of data Philosophy of Data Access: Hotspot Audio Text interpretation: Original Image in Database Overlays to the Image 021092054

12. Hypermedia Terminology Link * * Hotspots * * Hotspots Link Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 4 021092055

13. Hypermedia Concepts - Hyper = Hyper-Links: a web of computer pointers connecting each piece of data with related data - Media = Multi-Media: alphas, numerics, images, overlay interpretations, sounds, video, and simulations on the same computer screen - Associative, non-linear interconnections of multi-media materials - An ideal storage and retrieval system (collective memory) for - Historical data - Design information - Evolving plans a project of the scale and complexity of a 3-D intelligent city or the rural development of Colorado County - A peripheral brain and user-friendly dynamic information depository - Knowledge alive and growing: a knowledge construction set Dynamic compared to books, which are linear hierarchies frozen in time and space.

14. Product Structure: Hyperbases HXC PACKAGED PRESENTATION HXC CUSTOM CUSTOMER DEVELOPED Hard Copy AUTHORING LAN Data Main Frame Mini PC Data Data Data 021092056

15. executive information systems Target User Executive Knowledge Worker hypermedia technology Clerk automation Corporate Structure 021092052

16. Build the onion Peel the onion Traditional HyperMedia Corporation Solutions Approachfor the knowledge worker Solution 3 User Solution 2 Applications Solution 1 PD 10% User 10% PD 90% NPD Technology PD = Computer Processed Data NPD = Non-Processed Data 90% NPD (Hard Copy) 021092057

17. Knowledge Worker PS/2 or Macintosh Mainframe Terminal Mini Terminal Current Customer Environment Auto Access Manual Access Applications Mini Hard Copy Cray IBM Mainframe LANs 90% Data of Interest 10% Data of Interest DB2 M204 Oracle 021092058

18. Knowledge Worker Knowledge Bases 1. Query (Class Menu) 2. Surface (Author) 3. Presentation (Viewer) Target Environment HXC – HDE Application Layer 100% Data of Interest Mini Cray IBM Mainframe LANs Hard Copy (2,000 TB) DB2 M204 Oracle Sound Video 021092059