Reference: Citizen Initiative Review by Tom Atlee

The Citizen Initiative Review is a major development on the road to sustainability.  It should be supported and promoted by everyone involved with environmental, ecological, and sustainability issues.   Let me explain. 1.  INTELLIGENCE Think about what intelligence actually is and why it evolved in the first place.  Intelligence evolved because it helps us make …

Who’s Who in Peace Intelligence: Harrison Owen

Harrison Owen lives in Maryland and is immediately available to help any element of the U.S. Government, from White House to the smallest independent element of the U.S. Intelligence Community. “Learning as Transformation” is one of his more important and most widely-read online papers. He is the inventor of Open Space Technology (OST).  Below are …

Nature Tries to Imagine a World Without Mosquitoes/Malaria

Published online 21 July 2010 | Nature 466, 432-434 (2010) Ecology: A world without mosquitoes Eradicating any organism would have serious consequences for ecosystems — wouldn’t it? Not when it comes to mosquitoes, finds Janet Fang. (download pdf version) Every day, Jittawadee Murphy unlocks a hot, padlocked room at the Walter Reed Army Institute of …

Journal: Chinese Super-Computing…

China’s ‘big hole’ marks scale of supercomputing race 1,000 U.S. scientists are involved in exascale development, but China and Europe have stepped up their investment, IBM warns Computerworld – WASHINGTON — To make a point about China’s interest in supercomputing, David Turek, IBM’s vice president of deep computing, displayed a slide with a picture depicting …

Review: Rethink–A Business Manifesto for Cutting Costs and Boosting Innovation

It’s About Context, Business Ecosystems, and IT Impact September 18, 2010 Ric Merrifield I bought this book on the recommendation of a colleague whom I have known for twenty years, both of us members of the Silicon Valley Hackers Conference started by Stewart Brand and now managed by Glen Tenney. When I came to buy …

Journal: Tom Atlee Comments on Great Transition

This excellent piece aligns with one of the most important evolutionary dynamics I’ve been studying with Michael Dowd, Connie Barlow, John Stewart, and others.  That dynamic, which has operated since the Big Bang, is this:  In evolution’s drive towards greater complexity — that is, towards greater wholes comprised of more densely interconnected parts — the …