The bulk of this slide was created by Stephen E. Arnold and included in his chapter on search engines (over 75 of them). Robert Steele added the Google manipulation of what you see based on the published analytic studies by Arnold with respect to Google.
This was inspired by Harold Wilenski's book, Organizational Intelligence (Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry), and Robert Steele's growing awareness that what passes for “Knowledge Management” is nothing more than internal data mining. Augmented by an understanding of collaboration networks and by the growing but still immature field of commercial intelligence, the chart took shape rather quickly.
Not anticipated, but now consistent with both the strategic direction of the Earth Intelligence Network, and the reality of how cell phones rather than laptops are the device of choice for the poor, was the seminal role of the cell phone as the device of choice for achieving organizational intelligence.
It can be useful placed side by side with Nova Spivak's Meta-Web illustration to see a convergence of the technical-centered (Spivak) and the human-centered (Steele).
This is a basic regional centre that would initially work exclusively with open sources of information, but could, as trust and mutual intersts coincide, extend to do focused clandestine and covert actions, for example, against transnational criminal gangs, corrupt government officials and predatory corporate officials that loot commonwealths by bribing single officials at key points.
This is a notional representation of what a proper non-partisan, transpartisan, post-partisan Cabinet might look like, created in partnership with Jock Gill and Michael Cudahy. America is too complicated to be run by one person elected by 30% of the eligible voters, and their partisan buddies.
It is not possible for any one person to achieve wisdom, that is a collective function. By the same token, it is not possible for any one person to contribute to the whole if they isolate their consciousness in a narrow discipline. This is where policy leadership had failed–we are “led” by individuals whose reading and thinking is, at best, cursory, who fail to do the outreach to the diversity of views that would enrich any deliberation, and who fail to be honest about the foundations for their decisions, in almost all cases corrupt, selfish, and in favor of special interests.
This was created as a notional standard for any state or province recognizing that the federal government has failed and that each state or province is on its own should it wish to survive what some have called “The Long Emergency.” Panarchy and resilience and sustainability arfe achievable at any level, and it may well be that we must start at the bottom rather than the top, which makes perfect sense.