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Review: Understanding Knowledge as a Commons–From Theory to Practice

Almost a Three–Ambitious Title, Narrow Focus November 29, 2009 Charlotte Hess An MIT publication from 2007, this is actually knowledge from the 2000-2004 timeframe, and it is annoying narrow knowledge written from legal-economic point of view. Well-intentioned, no doubt, this is not the “inter-disciplinary” work that it claims to be, and I demonstrate restraint in …

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Search: taoism & co-intelligence

When you do not find results for a particular search term, please consider breaking up the search (e.g. tao by itself, co-intelligence by itself), and also use the Review menu (e.g. Culture, Research (92); (135);  DemocracyIntelligence (Collective & Quantum) (77);  Intelligence (Wealth of Networks) (36); Philosophy (50); Values, Ethics, Sustainable Evolution (134). The key concept …

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Review: Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

Boring, Original, Don’t Know Enough to Give Less Than Five Stars November 28, 2009 Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd I found this book boring, and not nearly as breath-taking and inspiring as Robert Wright’s Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, which altered my perception of everything else, and is right up there with E. …

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Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational]

The future of OSINT is M4IS2. The future of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is Multinational, Multifunctional, Multidisciplinary, Multidomain Information-Sharing & Sense-Making (M4IS2). The following, subject to the approval of Executive and Congressional leadership, are suggested hueristics (rules of thumb): Rule 1: All Open Source Information (OSIF) goes directly to the high side (multinational top secret) …

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Journal: Conflict Over Resources–Over the next 20 years, demand for food and energy will rise by half

The Madagascar model Nov 13th 2009 From The World in 2010 print edition By John Parker Conflicts over natural resources will grow In the world’s earliest written legal code, dating from 1790BC, Hammurabi, the king of Babylon, laid down rules governing the maintenance of irrigation systems and the amount of water people could take from …

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