OPEN POWER: Electoral Reform Act of 2015 – Open Source Activist Tool Kit

#Events, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
Amazon Page
Amazon Page

UPDATE: Book is #8 in Civics category at Kindle, today, 26 Feb 2015.

This is my first Kindle book, published in conjunction with my briefing it to the Economics of Happiness Conference in Portland, Oregon on 28 February 2015. Below is the full description of the book. Amazon provides Look Inside including the Table of Contents.

Micah Sifry says it best in his new book, The Big Disconnect, when he outlines how all activists are as fragmented and ineffective today as they were in the 1960's. — the two-party duopology and the 42 billionaires behind that two-party duopology have successfully “channeled” all activist groups — including MoveOn and IndependentVoting.org and the Libertarians and the Greens. Everyone is obsessed with “their” hashtag, “their” micro-issues. However well-intentioned they might be, the fact is that we are hanging separately for failure to come together on the ONE THING that we can both all support, and also win: #ElectoralReform.

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Michel Bauwens: P2P Theory Toward Society Reform – Transforming Civil Society, the Private Sector, and the State

Civil Society, Commerce, Cultural Intelligence, Government
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

This article aims to be a summary of the very basic orientation that I propose for social change.

I start from the classic division of human society in three basic aspects: civil society, the private sector, and the state.

1. The transformation of civil society

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SchwartzReport: Quantum Reality

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

Yet another breakthrough is taking form in physics; this is an amazing time. Here is one of the best general audience essays on the quantum world I have read. And I also find it notable that a respected major university academic, would feel comfortable writing, “I suggest that we regard the paradoxes of quantum physics as a metaphor for the unknown infinite possibilities of our own existence.

NYT Sunday Review: The Reality of Quantum Weirdness

Paper (PDF 7 Pages): Measurements on the reality of the wavefunction

Michel Bauwens: Future of Collaborative Economy & Networked Society – Vsilis Kostakis Co-Author

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

This entry is about “Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy” co-authored by Vasilis Kostakis and Michel Bauwens. The scholarly book is published by Palgrave Macmillan and here you may find a draft of it. Sharing the conviction that the globalized economy is at a critical turning point, we describe the four future scenarios; namely, netarchical capitalism, distributed capitalism, resilient communities and global Commons. Book free online

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