Robbie, Amelia, Chad, and Brain will soon post to the pages of RocketMcGee.com, under the Rocket Likes category; transcripts of conversations they had in person, or in the omninet. The kids really like to refine their understanding of things by sharing and talking them through. And, when they share the things that they really like and are meaningful to them, they want to share them as clearly as they can – and with a view from Faraway.

Chad once shared with them the beauty of the brainstorming process he’d observed at the University on Faraway, where he’d witnessed diverse frames of reference and points of view tangle into tapestries that none of the participants would likely have envisioned on his own. The kids wanted to try to capture that energy; that creative power.

The audio of their first conversation was quickly transcribed by a Scribblebot, and they could have just shoved that out into cyberspace, but they’ve continued to work on it with the help of a publishing AI, to include a description of their non-verbal interaction – like their facial expressions and gestures, grunts and groans, giggles and guffaws. Those were all very important parts of the conversation that wouldn’t be relayed in transcripts of audio alone. And now they find themselves in further discussions – now that they have to agree on what those non-verbal overtones actually were, or were meant to be, too…

“No… I did not ‘grin wryly and softly chuckle in quiet, knowing agreement’ – I grimaced and pointedly scoffed at that notion!”

See what I mean? It takes time. But, the kids have all agreed to let the publishing AI be the final arbiter for how best to characterize their non-words, […]