Review: The Philosophy of Sustainable Design
Can Be Considered “Ref A” or the Prime Directive, March 9, 2008
Amazon Book Lists: Steele’s 2005-2009 Mixed Bag
9/11 Blockbusters Featuring Dick Cheney (March 13, 2006) Atlas Visualizations Ready to Be Converted Into Serious Games (June 21, 2007) Biomimicry, Benevolent Bacteria, and Green Everything (November 20, 2007) Books Relevant to Evaluating Cheney (January 11, 2007) Capitalism 3.0 aka Natural Capitalism aka True Cost (March 19, 2007) Collective and Commercial Intelligence for Peace and …
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Reference: The Autocatalysis of Social Systems and the Emergence of Trust
Core Quote: “Under the condition of double contingency, every self-commitment, however accidentally arisen or however calculated, will acquire information and connective value for the action of others. Precisely because such a system is formed in a closed and self-referential way — namely A is determined by B and B by A — every accident, every …
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Reference: How Not to Study the World-Wide Web (WWW)
ABSTRACT: In his book, Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi gives us a detailed analysis of the typology of the WWW. In so doing, he makes many errors from which we can derive important lessons about ways not to study the …
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Reference: 21st Century Governance as a Complex Adaptive System
ABSTRACT: The Information Revolution combined with connective technologies creates a unique global social network. This network is vulnerable to cascades of information, norms, and coordinated action. The inherent unpredictability of the information society demands new kinds of governance that focus on rapid network-coordinated response over centralized predictive planning. CORE QUOTE: “Power, as the capacity to …
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Review: The Wealth of Networks–How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Hardcover)
Manifesto for the 21st Century of Informed Prosperous Democracy, August 9, 2006
