Research question to save humanity

How can we best study and improve how human behavior and tool systems co-evlove to raise the collective capability.

Program for the Future Notes from the Lunatic Fringe

Ten Top Take-a-ways from The Program for the Future The Program for the Future met March 3, 2010 for a CoLABoration. Note: The tables at CoLAB had various affinity groups — education, government, health care, communications, business, technology — I asked to label a table “lunatic fringe.” Eileen Clegg describes it “as a popular if

Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck?

Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck? Facebook Fan Page This facebook campaign really caught my attention, (and the attention of another 197,773 people) but I wonder, how we harness this mass frustration against Glenn Beck and convert it into a social/political movement towards change? Or is knowing we

Why are we laboring in this guy’s vinyard?- Facebook owned by Murdock

Bruce Sterling interview http://blog.whoiswho.de/stories/46088/ Turns out that Bruce Sterling quote is only a metaphor, really it’s MySpace that is owned by Murdock. Fascinating. He equates the US to the Soviet Union in 1981-with a broken social contract… “Trapped between a collapsing previous order and an extremely unsettled…new order.” Snippets …Knowing that our societies have become

It’s about the journey

The best thing we could possibly do is not think that somebody is going to tell you what “the answer” is but somebody that says, “Here is a process that will help facilitate optimally that evolution.”

New paradigm for the new year

My goal is to help Web 2.0 move away from tiny tweets to slow dialog. May we use our collective intelligence to engage in meaningful dialog about the complex issues we face. May we use collective IQ to: improve our capability to portray accurate pictures of our current paradigm to produce a result that is

Don’t believe everything you think

When you believe something all evidence points to the truth of your point of view. To get people to change their beliefs is very difficult. When we watch films we “suspend our disbelief.” We don’t sit in the dark theater watching a thriller, animation, or even romantic comedy saying, “That is not possible.” If the

You can go to the same stream but you can never walk in the same stream water twice

Yesterday, I walked from the Powel Street Bart Station in San Francisco to 5th and Townsend at 5:30 in the afternoon. I grew up in San Francisco and had walked those same streets many times, but the flavor of the city has changed. It’s younger and cleaner–the contrasts more striking. Black men in their 30’s