Category: Collective Intelligence

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Yoda: You Nation’s IQ Matters More

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

yoda with light saberWhy your nation’s IQ matters more than your own

We know that intelligence matters at the level of the individual, impacting performance in school, work, and life. Decades of research supports that point. But what if your personal intelligence level doesn’t matter as much as the average level of intelligence of the country in which you live? This is what economist Garett Jones of George Mason University calls the “paradox of IQ” in his new book Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own.

Phi Beta Iota: A great deal goes into creating a “Smart Nation.” We have not done anything in this direction since the first article appeared in 1996.

See Also:

Steele, Robert. “SPECIAL FEATURE: Creating a Smart Nation–Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, and Information,”  Government Information Quarterly, pp. 159-173

 

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Robert Steele: Saving Civilization – Time & Truth Matter

#OSE Open Source Everything, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Robert David Steele Vivas
Robert David Steele Vivas

Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Saving

The tide has clearly turned against the techno-financial paradigm that disregards natural capital costs and exploits the 99% in favor of the 1%. Even a few billionaires have figured this out.

Time, however, is not on our side, nor is truth easy to find in today's severely corrupt information environment where all eight tribes of information — including self-absorbed “progressive” activists — operate on no more than 2% of the relevant information and ignore the three things that I consider essential to saving civilization and creating a prosperous world at peace, a world that works for all: holistic analytics, true cost economics, and open source everything engineering.

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Worth a Look: Tamera – School and Research Station for a Future without War — a Realistic Utopia

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

TameraLogo-300x80Tamera is a School and Research Station for Realistic Utopia

The project was founded in Germany in 1978. In 1995 it moved to Portugal. Today 170 people live and work on a property of 330 acres. The founding thought was to develop a non-violent life model for cooperation between human being, animal and nature. Soon it became clear that the healing of love and of human community had to be placed at the center of this work. Sexuality, love and partnership need to be freed from lying and fear, for there can be no peace on Earth as long as there is war in love. The ecological and technological research of Tamera includes the implementation of a retention landscape for the healing of water and nature, as well as a model for regional autonomy in energy and food. Through the Global Campus and the Terra Nova School we are working within a global network on the social, ecological and ethical foundations for a new Earth – Terra Nova.

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Adam Tucker: Understanding “New Power” — a Current not a Currency with 2 Excellent Graphics

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Adam Tucker
Adam Tucker

Understanding “New Power”

Old power works like a currency. It is held by few. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads, and it captures.

New power operates differently, like a current. It is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It uploads, and it distributes. Like water or electricity, it’s most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.

Two excellent graphics below the fold.

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Jean Lievens: Commons Strategies Group

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Governance
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

The Commons Strategies Group

The Commons Strategies Group (CSG) is a partnership to help advance the commons in diverse settings — both in theory and practice. Working on four continents, we catalyze and assist commons-based projects, activism, research and public education with a great variety of partners.

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Robert David Steele & Robert James Becket — The Age of Ethics (Virtue) Has Begun

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Robert David Steele Vivas
Robert David Steele Vivas

ROBERT DAVID STEELE: Lee Iacocca wrote a fine book, Where have all the leaders gone? and the sadness is that we don't produce leaders any more, only apparatchiks skilled at legalized crime.  I was thinking yesterday that the next big leap is ethical from the agricultural era to the industrial era to the information era to the ethical era. The Club of Rome made a mistake. The competing proposal was as you have suggested, education and bottom up intelligence. Limits to Growth is a top down “we can control this” approach. Not sure where the blockchain technology is going, but protecting the provenance of information — assuring the integrity of information — will surely be central and hence demand a decentralized approach that ends the corruption associated with hierarchies and delegated authorities too easily abused.

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