Timothy Wilken Recently, the concept of memes has been presented here. Recall synergic scientist N. Arthur Coulter‘s warning that we were caught in THE MACHINE. Held there by powerful protodynes and sociodynes. A protodyne is a strong […]
Continue readingA New Economy?
John Robb Did the Internet enable a new economy? I think the latest evidence says that it has. But it isn’t the new economy corporate America expected. Since 1993, the economic […]
Continue readingGreat Courage – The Second Greenpeace Foundation
One of the problems with a belief in Human Neutrality is that it causes great apathy. If I am truly independent, then I have no duty to family, community, Life or the Earth […]
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Win Wenger, Ph.D. For the past few decades the real problem has been that of distribution. Even in this country, where food is plentiful and cheap, millions go hungry and […]
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Timothy Wilken I have written elsewhere about my belief that humans could form the thinking cells for GAIA. Think a moment of how our brain functions—the neurons of our human brain […]
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Look Him in the Eye – My Millennium Message
“With a shock, my eyes met the left eye of the whale like Odysseus facing the Cyclops. That one eye stared back, an eye the size of my fist, blackish […]
Continue readingA Mutual, Joint-Stock World in all Meridians
This morning’s essay is reposted from Edge. James J. O’Donnell, is Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He recently […]
Continue readingWhat about the TrustMark?
Yesterday, I discussed Synergic Trusting and Synergic Trusts. That essay was a preamble to this morning’s article. Timothy Wilken, MD Creative Commons is a new web service that is focused […]
Continue readingLawrence Lessig’s “The Future of Ideas”
a review by Lucas Hendrich KurzweilAI.net The fertile ground of the Internet has led to countless innovations, eliminating physical barriers and allowing a borderless, transparent source of information to flourish. […]
Continue readingSynergic Trusting and Synergic Trusts – Two Different Things
Timothy Wilken, MD Trusting is not a new behavior for humanity. It was invented long ago when the world was dominated by the adversary way. Trusting meant that I could […]
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