Of interest to those on this list posting about 'cities', may be this,
from Paul Miller, aka DJ Spookie, to another list. Excuse his narrow
formatting.
Also of possible interest is Anthony Townsend's (of the Institute for the
Future) telecom-cities list and web site: http://cities.iftf.net
rl
These guys are so down on scenario planning, they might enjoy
http://www.gbn.com, or Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View from
1991. Regardless of what you think of the technique, the notion that it
is only used in current military and security circles is not supportable.
Richard
These guys are so down on scenario planning, they might enjoy
http://www.gbn.com, or Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View from
1991. Regardless of what you think of the technique, the notion that it is
only used in current military and security circles is not supportable.
Carl,
Not
I certainly understand and agree with Carl's concerns as expressed in the
article he included in his email. The use by the Pentagon of modeling and IT
programs for present and future urban battles is rather scary. This is a
moral question; should complexity/chaos/ABM expert lend their
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The UN currently does confront serious peacekeeping issues in such
poor mega-urban areas such as Port-au-Prince, Haiti and in other
failed states where its peacekeeping troops are involved. However,
this is morally different than a world power using IT applied
Glen E. P. Ropella wrote:
If we had access to perfect information, there'd be no need for morality.
Why? Having perfect information says nothing about the distribution of
power.
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I've been getting enough mail on my comment that I feel I should clarify
the meaning:
Scenario planning has been around for quite awhile, the
military/government uses of it are but a small fraction of its overall
use, it is *not* so far as I can tell a sales tool for new weapons
systems, it
