The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
What kind of power, for whom, and for what? Tom Atlee May 9, 2013 In this article I explore current trends in the evolution of power that have profound implications for our future. This is an appreciative critical review of Moises Naim’s new book THE END OF POWER: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to …
A Fresh Look at Big Data May 8, 2013 Next week I am doing an invited talk in London. My subject is search and Big Data. I will be digging into this notion in this month’s Honk newsletter and adding some business intelligence related comments at an Information Today conference in New York later this …
NEW 28 June 2016: FREE: Digital copy of the book to anyone willing to arrange for its translation into any language (already in Chinese), and posting to Amazon as a book in that language. Keep the money. Spread the ideas. Proposed to Nordics: Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) — a Nordic Manifesto Proposed to UN: …
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NEW: Kindle Book Open Power ($2.99) OLD: Core Documents for Both Initiatives (Free) OLD: the foundation book The Open Source Everything Manifesto ROBERT STEELE: There are two schools of thought on effecting political (and hence economic and social) reform. One school is the school of love — this school emphasizes trust building and doing no …
An Evolving Systems Analysis of Sandy Hook Sandy Hook in a New Light: Lately I find myself attempting to fit both personal experience and global events into a General Systems framework. General Systems Theory is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry pioneered by biologist Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy. It seeks to expound principles that are applicable to …
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Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill 5.0 out of 5 stars Important Milestone, Two Gaps, February 4, 2013 I was educated in the Limits to Growth period–back in the day of telephone couplers–and have also been an ardent follower of Herman Daly’s pioneering work in ecological economics as well as complementary work spanning the last several …
Qualities of folly and wisdom – with factors that support each aspect of participatory wisdom A. Fairness vs. bias 1. Folly comes from narrow-mindedness, bias, partisanship 2. Wisdom depends on open-mindedness, equity, objectivity 3. Factors supporting this aspect of participatory wisdom include balanced information; attention to “broad benefit” and “general welfare”; balance of power; neutral …
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