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2011/01/092011/01/09

Evolution and Social Change I

03 Environmental Degradation, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Peace Intelligence, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Strategy

Prior Conversations Leading Up to This One:

Journal: Get America Working–A Conversation Part II

Journal: Get America Working–A Conversation Part III

Journal: Get America Working-A Conversation Part IV Enter usfruct (husbandry of the planet) and Spiritual Ecology

Tom Atlee:

Dear Alexander,

I'm afraid I don't have much useful to offer to Robert's initiative at this time. But I wanted to briefly note, for you and others, that evolutionary science writer Connie Barlow and former fundamentalist evangelical Christian minister Michael Dowd offer another, complementary, angle on evolution and religion (including their own thoughts on the relevance of evolutionary psychology) at Thank God for Evolution and The Great Story.

Michael is translating Christian theology into terms not only consistent with but expressive of a sacred understanding of science-based evolution. (He half jokes that he is a CreaTHEist, while Connie is a CreAtheist!) He is currently doing some remarkable interviews with luminaries in the field of Evolutionary Christianity. At the very least, their work should provide you with some additional juicy quotes…

Review: Thank God for Evolution–How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World

Review: Earthspirit–A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity

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2011/01/042011/10/22

Reference: Steele at Huffington Post Updated

About the Idea, Articles & Chapters, Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics, Government, InfoOps (IO), IO Multinational, IO Sense-Making, Methods & Process, Worth A Look

Steele-SSI-Cropped — Robert David STEELE Vivas

Robert David STEELE Vivas

Comprehensive Architect, Prime Design

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Posted: January 4, 2011 02:08 PM

Cyber-Intelligence — Restore the Republic of “Of, By, and For”

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Posted: December 26, 2010 10:00 AM

Infinite Wealth for All

Below the line: prior posts on the Virtual Cabinet–who, what, why, how, when….

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2011/01/032011/01/03

Journal: American Decline in Zero-Sum World?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), International Aid, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Key Players, Methods & Process, Officers Call, Policies, Reform, Strategy, Threats

“We've Heard All This About American Decline Before.”

This time it's different. It's certainly true that America has been through cycles of declinism in the past. Campaigning for the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy complained, “American strength relative to that of the Soviet Union has been slipping, and communism has been advancing steadily in every area of the world.” Ezra Vogel's Japan as Number One was published in 1979, heralding a decade of steadily rising paranoia about Japanese manufacturing techniques and trade policies.

In the end, of course, the Soviet and Japanese threats to American supremacy proved chimerical. So Americans can be forgiven if they greet talk of a new challenge from China as just another case of the boy who cried wolf. But a frequently overlooked fact about that fable is that the boy was eventually proved right. The wolf did arrive — and China is the wolf.

Read full article….

Gideon Rachman is chief foreign-affairs commentator for the Financial Times and author of Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety.

Phi Beta Iota: The problem with the “status quo” actors and thinkers–however good their intentions–is that they simply do not know what they do not know. The world can indeed be zero-sum. It can also be non-zero sum, a case made by Robert Wright and summarized in Review: Nonzero–The Logic of Human Destiny. We know how to do this and want to do this. Those in power do not know how to do this and do not want to do this. Therein lies the challenge–all it takes is ONE leader–Cynthia McKinney comes to mind–willing to stand up, demand Electoral Reform (1 Page, 9 Points), and the rest will be history–a very good history of the Second American Republic, how it came to its senses, and created a prosperous world at peace through intelligence as design. Now THAT is Advanced Cyber/IO!

See Also:

Graphic: Intelligence Maturity Scale

Review: Evolutionary Activism by Tom Atlee

Review: Ideas and Integrities–A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Preconditions of Revolution in the USA Today

Reference: Electoral Reform (Huffington Post Version)

Reference: Electoral Reform–1 Page 9 Points 2.2 (Document Only)

2011/01/032011/01/03

Journal: Eradicating Poverty One Micro-Job at a Time

Advanced Cyber/IO, Analysis, Augmented Reality, Budgets & Funding, Collaboration Zones, Collective Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Geospatial, Historic Contributions, info-graphics/data-visualization, InfoOps (IO), Intelligence (government), International Aid, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship, Key Players, Maps, Methods & Process, microfinancing, Open Government, Policies, Policy, Politics of Science & Science of Politics, Reform, Research resources, Strategy, Technologies, Threats, Tools, Videos/Movies/Documentaries

Working for change: Samasource redefines international aid

December 10, 2010

On Need to Know, we do a lot of reporting about the world’s problems. But we’re premiering a new series about people coming up with creative solutions — it’s called “Agents of Change.”

Click on title to read short intro and option to view video….

9 minutes — summary

Social entrepreneur challenging conventional wisdom

Samasource–microwork (small digital tasks that can be done on an inexpensive computers).

Building 21st Century assembly line that can break down massive tasks (e.g. updating addresses for Google maps, or translating emergency messages from Creole to English). Won contracts with Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft.

15% premium for socially-conscious companies, AND competitive on cost, quality, and turnaround time.

Small scale digital tasks did not exist before.

Transforming lives, especially women, young men, and refugees. $5 a day is very much better than local norms, and buys an active English-speaking brain with hands able to do quality work.

IMPORTANT: Developing world is out-pacing USA and West generally in extending Internet infrastructure to the poor–centers created, humans come in, also doing viewing (Gorgon Stare, take note!), creating logs of store videos on shopper buying habits, anything that can be noticed and logged by a human–$5 a day.

Phi Beta Iota: We could not, in a million years, have found a better “off-set” to the USAF Gorgon Stare program. This micro-tasking, combining human brains and hands with Internet access, is one of the most profoundly intelligent and socio-economically useful ideas we have seen in our lifetimes (there are 800 of us here). BRAVO.

2011/01/02

Worth a Look: First Earth Battalion YouTube

Advanced Cyber/IO, Augmented Reality, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, InfoOps (IO), Methods & Process, Movies, Officers Call, Strategy, Videos/Movies/Documentaries, YouTube

YouTube: Jim Channon ” Old World Order” ?…Just walk away…!

YouTube: Jim channon On 2012 and the future part1

YouTube: One Minute Shift – Are You Ready?

YouTube: “Operation Noble Steward” by Lt. Colonel Jim Channon

YouTube: Combat of the Collective Conscience

YouTube: GOATS DECLASSIFIED: The True Story Behind The Men Who Stare At Goats

Tip of the Hat to Sumner Carter at Facebook.

2011/01/022011/01/02

Journal: How to Kill Innovation & Ingenuity

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collaboration Zones, Communities of Practice, Ethics, Methods & Process

That's not the way we do things about here

Please don't underestimate how powerful this sentence is.

When you say this to a colleague, a new hire, a student or a freelancer, you've established a powerful norm, one that they will be hesitant to challenge.

This might be exactly what you were hoping for, but if your goal is to encourage innovation, you blew it.

Phi Beta Iota: In strategic and force structure studies (neither strategic nor studies) the code is “protect the shooters” when they really mean protect shooter command billets, never mind the shooters themselves or the desperate need for a 10% move from shooters to thinkers.

Graphic: Digital Learners versus Analog Teachers

Reference: 27 Sep MajGen Robert Scales, USA (Ret), PhD

Reference: Saving Defense from Itself

Review: The Power of Unreasonable People–How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World

Review: The Ingenuity Gap–Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable Future

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