The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Michael Sandal’s book, as reviewed here at Phi Beta Iota (see Review: Public Philosophy–Essays on Morality in Politics) prompted my putting forward some related links and thoughts. I highly recommend Michael Sandal’s TED presentation The Lost Art of Democratic Debate “Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says — but we’re shamefully out of practice. …
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Just from the topics, it seems like a more coherent version of this stuff I wrote in 2004: Achieving the Star Trek Society. “This essay shows how a total of $14000 billion up front and at least another $2085 billion per year can be made available for creative investment in the USA by adopting a …
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Creating a Smart Nation–and a World Brain–demands the participation of all of the people all of the time.
Paul Fernhout has been helping his wife (Cynthia Kurtz) develop Rakontu, a free and open source software communications and sensemaking tool for small purpose-driven communities that focuses on exchanging stories. He has hopes to expand Rakontu eventually into a broader Public Intelligence platform including a semantic desktop, simulations, narrative methods, visualization tools, and structured arguments. …
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Full Briefing (33 Slides) See Also: Graphic: Topic Maps How We Really Think Graphic: Topic Maps and How We Think Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Douglas Engelbart Who’s Who in Collective Intelligence: Pierre Levy
Below is updated information followed by the original response. With the permission of Robert Horn, a co-founder of Earth Intelligence Network and also the “owner” of the term “information mapping,” we have posted his seminal work in easy to download and exploit segments: Reference: Mapping Hypertext (1989) Latest example of Robert Horn’s work: Reference: Sustainable …
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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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