#OSE Open Source Everything – Page 209 – Public Intelligence Blog

Confused, force is.

First the good.

In My piece, The End of Entropy I propose the following:

With a central website, in forum style, to address major issues – divided into local sections, regional sections and global sections, with “votes” at a certain level elevating the problems and solutions to the next level to be voted on by a greater number – we can collectively coordinate to solve the issues of this planet. Social responsibility will be seen as spending 15 minutes a day (or more) reviewing the issues on this site. This seed parameter will see an emergence of human unity as a race and as a planet.

What is there proposed is a stigmergic governance – a way to govern society without a governMENT. In a system with no money or need for exchange, stigmergic governance will work – as long as there are money interests, it is unlikely to, with votes bought, up or down, and other disruptive aspects. This is what I propose in a free energy/robot system where no money is needed (read The End of Entropy for a picture of how this works). If You are unfamiliar with the term, stigmergy, a good place to get a handle on the term is here.

A very good illustration of stigmergy is Linux. In this case, one Individual created a basic program and offered it freely in open source. Others came along and began to improve upon it, create software to run on it, and so on. There was no “leader” in this group – those who wanted to get involved did so – and from the initial basic program, a whole creative “empire” came to be…all entirely free and freely.

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and now the bad.

Continue reading “Yoda: Understanding Governance — Without Money, Righteous; With Money Corrupt”

2013/02/17

Patrick Meier: Crisis Mapping Meets Minority Report – HUMANS Plus Digital Tools Mapping the Pulse of the Planet and Harmonizing Delivery of Aid

Geospatial, Governance

Video: When Crisis Mapping Meets Minority Report

Posted on February 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

This short video was inspired by the pioneering work of the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF). A global network of 1,000+ digital humanitarians in 80+ countries, the SBTF is responsible for some of the most important live crisis mapping operations that have supported both humanitarian and human rights organizations over the past 2+ years. Today, the SBTF is a founding and active member of the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) and remains committed to rapid learning and innovation thanks to an outstanding team of volunteers (“Mapsters”) and their novel use of next-generation humanitarian technologies.

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VIMEO VIDEO: NGC Patrick Meier – Crisis Mapper :30

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National Geographic Channel showcase Emerging Explorer Patrick Meier in a new hyper-real commercial spot.

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2013/02/162013/02/16

Doug Rushkoff: Present Shock (YouTube 15:14) & Book

#OSE Open Source Everything, Cultural Intelligence, Cyber-Intelligence

Douglas Rushkoff has been an authority on the intersection of technology and culture since before the word “google” was anything more than baby talk. He predicted the coming centrality of the Internet (CYBERIA, 1992 – a book initially canceled by a publisher who feared the net would be over by the time it came out); he coined the terms “viral media” (MEDIA VIRUS, 1994) and “social currency” (Upside Magazine, 1996); he forecasted the collapse of the dotcom bubble (SXSW, 1997) and the most recent recession in a 2004 column that later became his book, LIFE INC; he even inspired today’s code literacy movement (PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED, 2010). He is the author of a total of twelve bestsellers (translated to over thirty languages), the host of three award-winning documentaries, an award-winning educator and frequent media commentator.

Robert Steele Comment and Present Shock Book Information Below the Line

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2013/02/162013/02/16

John Robb: Life in a Networked Age

Architecture, Culture, Governance

Life in a Networked Age

Here's some idle thinking for a sunny afternoon at the end of winter.

To access it, let's make a simple assumption that economics, politics, and warfare are all a function of the dominant technological substrate.

A technological substrate is the family of related technologies that we rely upon. In the 20th Century, we were clearly reliant on an industrial substrate.

The challenges posed by industrial age technologies dictated the development of two management forms: bureaucracy and markets. Bureaucracies and markets are both decision making systems. These management forms dominated economics, politics, and warfare for centuries.

Neither system of management is sufficient as a solution for industrial economics, politics, or warfare.

Democracies use market decision making to determine leadership over a nation-state bureaucracy. Capitalism uses markets to determine leadership/control over corporate bureaucries. Education uses bureaucracy to manage its institutions and a combination of markets and bureaucracy to allocate students. The modern age was dominated by market based warfare (think: Wallenstein) but it is now firmly bureaucratic.

Although ideologies have been built and wars have been fought over the mix of bureaucracy and markets, neither system has proven dominant. .

This simplification is useful when we shift the technological substrate.

In the last thirty years, we've seen a shift in the technological substrate. This new susbstrate is increasingly a family of technologies related to information networks.

As this new substrate begins to take control, we're going to need new management forms. Both bureaucratic and market systems are proving insuffient solutions to the challenges of a networked age.

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2013/02/162013/02/16

Penguin: Microsoft Dying – But Linux Not Ready

Software

We are long past due cutting the chains of predatory proprietary expensive, non-scalable, non-interopperable software. Open Source Everything (OSE) is a very ugly baby, but it is the only baby that has a chance of affordable scaling to meet the needs of all humanity.

Indifference of market leaders kills their own markets

Internet transforming higher education

Betsy Corcoran

SFGate, Friday, February 15, 2013

The biggest disruption that the Internet may deliver to our world is just beginning: the upending of higher education.

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I've spent the past two years chronicling the emerging education technology industry at EdSurge, my startup devoted to helping educators and entrepreneurs find and use the best tools available to support learning. I had spent the previous 25 years in the national media.

Although the news media chronicled the rise of the Internet, we didn't appreciate how it gave voice to disgruntled customers – namely, our readers. Readers wanted to voice their thoughts in more than a wispy sentence or two in letters to the editor. They wanted more diversity in the news that got reported than teams of anonymous editors were serving up. The list goes on.

The parallels with universities are striking.

Another reason to move to Open Source software..….

Office 2013 retail licensing change ties suite to specific PC forever

‘If your computer dies, so does your Office license,' says licensing guru; move seen as prod to adopt subscription-based Office 365

Microsoft yesterday confirmed that a retail copy of Office 2013 is permanently tied to the first PC on which it's installed, preventing customers from deleting the suite from one machine they own and installing it on another.

The move is a change from past Office end-user licensing agreements (EULAs), experts said, and is another way Microsoft is pushing customers, especially consumers, to opt for new “rent-not-own” subscription plans.

“That's a substantial shift in Microsoft licensing,” said Daryl Ullman, co-founder and managing director of the Emerset Consulting Group, which specializes in helping companies negotiate software licensing deals. “Let's be frank. This is not in the consumer's best interest. They're paying more than before, because they're not getting the same benefits as before.”

How To Install Nvidia Drivers In Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal

Offbeat: Installing standard binary drivers in Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit was easily the worst experience I’ve had with installing standard drivers in 20 years, due to three (3) interacting bugs that each should never have made it past release. Here’s a writeup for anybody else to avoid that experience that sucked a day out of my life.

This is not quality.

Offensive Cyber Weapons: Construction, Development, and Employment

Abstract (Journal of Strategic Studies)

Deploying cyber weapons to damage Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is relatively easy because such systems are insecure by design. Maintaining communication with an activated cyber weapon, and ensuring its persistence, is harder but feasible.

2013/02/15

Graphic: Occupy Circles

Citizen-Centered, Graphics

Occupy Circles are a phenomenon appearing in communities around the country. In the absence of tent cities people are meeting and organising in new ways. In this podcast we interview Ian Chamberlin about his experience of participating and organising Occupy Circles.

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Theophillis Goodyear: Open Source as Enabler of Integrity

#OSE Open Source Everything

From the Film Casino: The Perfect Analogy for How Open Source Everything Works

Sam Rothstein is describing the checks and balances that kept everybody honest in the casino that he was in charge of, and said, “In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye in the sky is watching us all. Plus, we had a dozen guy up there [above the gambling tables in the casino, in the “eye in the sky”] most of them ex-cheats, who knew every trick in the house.”

In fact this is how ancient tribal societies worked. In a small community not much is secret. As someone once told me who lived in a very small town in Arizona, “There's always someone checking out your action.” But civilization turned out to be a great enabler of deception and wrongdoing because the complexity of the community became a kind of human forest that obscured crimes against the people.

Open source everything is a way to restore the dynamics of ancient tribal societies whereby we had each other to keep us all in line. No one has anything to lose from this dynamic except those who are exploiting the environment of secrecy that's screwing us all. Cockroaches scurry when the rock is lifted.

Every enlightened mind knows that the checks and balances that the Founding Fathers set up are not nearly enough today. They've become a joke. They've been gotten around. They've been subverted. So no matter from what perspective people may argue against Open Source Everything—-in regard to republican values versus representative democracy versus pure democracy, for example—-they can't argue against it from the perspective of checks and balances!

The argument of checks and balances is like a stake through the heart of anyone who argues in favor of limited participation in democracy versus Open Source Everything, because the idea of checks and balances was the glue with which the Founding Fathers cemented our fledgeling republic, without which it would have never taken wing.

Open source everything would be a case of the rock permanently lifted.