By Eric Sommer By a ‘synergy’, I mean a system of interactions between two or more actors or centers of action. The word ‘synergy’ comes from a Greek word meaning […]
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The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture
by Eric Steven Raymond To understand the role of reputation in the open-source culture, it is helpful to move from history further into anthropology and economics, and examine the difference […]
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Timothy Wilken The strategy of physics called reductionism has been one of the most powerful tools in the history of science. What is reductionism? How does it work? Lawrence Krauss […]
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Daniel Pink “School is like starting life with a 12-year jail sentence in which bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.” Those are the words of John Taylor Gatto, […]
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The Rest of the Story… from The Guardian “So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the “massacre of innocent people” or, if you like, […]
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Arthur Noll responds in the dialogue started yesterday: Bill, I’m not sure why you say that I stress materialism too much. My understanding of things does not diminish the importance […]
Continue readingCommunity Requires Shared Beliefs?
Bill Ellis comments: ” I don’t think we necessarily have to have shared beliefs to have community. My community of close friends working on many project together includes Christian Fundamentalists, […]
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by W… Three key perceptions which need to be better understood by all of us, especially in light of recent events: The classical Three Laws of Thermodynamics which, as Norbert […]
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Win Wenger I imagine each of us has something pretty special to say before it’s all over, but we never really get around to saying it. This time of sudden […]
Continue readingResponses to Understanding the Industrial Age
Steven Van Smith writes in response to Dee Hock’s Understanding the Industrial Age: “I agree with Hock’s assessment of reductionist and mechanistic thought. Cartesian duality has made ethics, and philosophy problematic. […]
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