Month: October 2009

Check out Google's Project 10 to the 100, and vote for the ideas among the top ten that you favor.

They are listed below for reader convenience but descriptions and voting blocks are only available at Google's Project 10 to the 100th page.

Help social entrepreneurs drive change    Make government more transparent    Provide quality education to African students    Create real-time natural crisis tracking system    Build real-time, user-reported news service    Drive innovation in public transport    Make educational content     available online for free    Create more efficient landmine removal programs    Work toward socially conscious tax policies    Build better banking tools for everyone    Collect and organize the world's urban data    Encourage positive media depictions of engineers and scientists    Promote health monitoring and data analysis    Enhance science and engineering education    Create real-world issue reporting system    Create genocide monitoring and alert system

The scattered nature of these “surviving ideas” gives us pause.  Several of them should have been grouped into a Collective Intelligence category, many are so far down in the weeds we have to wonder about the substance of the process by which this final list was derived.

When one is brought up, professionally trained, in “systems thinking” and the importance of feedback loops, diversity, and integrity, everything else becomes pedestrian.  Today we highlight two books re-inventing the wheel so as to feature an extraordinarily useful but slighting incomplete oration on “expert judgement by our much-admired colleague at NIGHTWATCH, concluding with a list of books on Collective Intelligence as the engine for Epoch B Human Scale Integral Consciousness and Conscious Evolution….i.e. the antithesis of Washington, D.C. politics.

We are beginning to see the emergence of a very earnest and most promising form of historical revisionis, a series of books testing “what if” hypotheses that revolve around “what if” our leaders had acted with integrity; “what if” our leaders had sought out all the facts, been transparent, not been selfish, not been corrupt?

Below is an excerpt from NIGHTWATCH (find the rest halfway down the page for 23 July 2009) at NIGHTWATCH 20090723 in a “Special Note on Porfessionalism in Analysis–worth a complete read!

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