Military Superiority Fading, Analyst Says
‘Pax Americana' yields to Asia
By Tom LoBianco, November 19, 2009 >Pg. 10
Phi Beta Iota: The tragedy of this story is that the military-industrial-congressional complex continues to be in denial about the changing nature of power in the Information Operations (IO) era. Alvin Toffler first captured the information or soft power aspect of the shift in power with his book Review: Powershift–Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century and then many years later, Revolutionary Wealth (Hardcover). He spoke to OSS '93 about this topic, see 1993 Alvin Toffler on National Knowledge Power and in the same year, published 1993 Alvin Toffler, “The Future of the Spy” in War & Anti-War in which the concept of the “rival store” of public intelligence was emergent, challenging the monopoly of the secret world on “decision-support.”
Others have addressed the triad of concepts: social production of wealth outside the money economy; education as the ultimate wealth and creator of wealth; and soft power instead of hard power. Below are a few of the many books we have reviewed in each area. The “elite” is no longer an elite, just a greedy cabal disconnected from the reality that must guide all of us if we are to adapt and prosper.
Wealth of Networks-Wealth of Knowledge
Seeing the Invisible: National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain Age
The exemplar–The exemplary performer in the age of productivity
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Hardcover)
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth From Talent in the 21st Century Organization
Groundswell–Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Here Comes Everybody–The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter (Paperback)
Information Proficiency: Your Key to the Information Age (Industrial Engineering) (Hardcover)
The Power of Unreasonable People–How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
Creating a World Without Poverty–Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization
World Brain (Essay Index Reprint Series) (Hardcover)
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths (Hardcover)
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
The New Golden Rule: Community And Morality In A Democratic Society
2006 THE SMART NATION ACT: Public Intelligence in the Public Interest
Education As the Ultimate Wealth
Unspeakable Truths: Facing the Challenges of Truth Commissions (Paperback)
2006 Forbes Blank Slate On Education
Philosophy and the Social Problem: The Annotated Edition
Conscious Evolution: Awakening Our Social Potential
Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe (Hardcover)
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become (Paperback)
Teaching to Transgress–Education as the Practice of Freedom
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage
Disrupting Class–How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
Edutopia–Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age
Unleashing Web 2.0: From Concepts to Creativity
Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World
The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century Organisation (Hardcover)
2002 Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for education and building human capital (UN ITU)
Transforming Leadership: The Pursuit of Happiness
Don’t Bother Me Mom–I’m Learning!
Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants
Serious Games: Games That Educate, Train, and Inform
Introduction to Paradigms: Overview, Definitions, Categories, Basics, Optimizing Paradigms & Paradigm Engines
Soft Power–Adaptability & Resiliance in Face of Complex Collapse
M4IS2 (Multinational, Multiagency, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making
Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (Hardcover)
The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
The Knowledge Executive: Leadership in an Information Society
Leading Minds–An Anatomy Of Leadership
The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems
The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone
Resilience Thinking–Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World
We the Purple: Faith, Politics, and the Independent Voter
Peaceful Positive Revolution: Economic Security for Every American
Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics
The Unfinished Revolution: Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us
Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025
