-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- from: http://www.plausiblefutures.com/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.plausiblefutures.com/">Plausible Futures</A> ----- | Future Studies | Scenario Planning | Learning Organizations | System Dynamics | Network Economy | Information Warfare | Future Technology | Habitat | Demography "Learning faster than your competitors comes to be seen as the only sustainable competitive advantage in an environment of rapid innovations and change." - Arie de Geus "However certain our expectation, the moment foreseen may be unexpected when it arrives." - T.S. Eliot "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." -Edmund Burke "And to make things even more challenging and intelligence-provoking for the passengers, no instruction book on identification of parts and what they do and how to operate them came with the spaceship." - Buckminster Fuller. "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" by D. C. Engelbart 1962. This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being. A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promise is the computer, when it can be harnessed for direct on-line assistance, integrated with new concepts and methods. Source: Stanford Research Institute. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Exterior of Reality Tunnels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Ethics of the Cyborg: Should there be a limit placed on the integration of humans and computers and electronic technology? Though this technology seems science-fictional, it is no different from the state of recombinant rDNA research in the 1960s. At that point, the technology was only in its infancy, yet prescient social critics like Jeremy Rifkin were already starting to question whether all the possible dangers this technology would present were controlled for. Bioelectronics is already a real and recognized bioengineering discipline in Europe, and there are research laboratories already in place - the International Society for Molecular Electronics and BioComputing (ISMEBC) based in Hungary and the Electronics and Biotechnology Advanced (E.L.B.A.) research park on the Mediterranean island of Elba. Source: Steve Mizrach, University of Florida. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Higher Education in an Era of Digital Competition: Emerging Organizational Models. This paper describes and analyzes seven models of higher education organization that are challenging the future preeminence of the traditional model of residential higher education. These models are emerging to meet the new conditions and to take advantage of the new environment that has created both opportunity and risk for all organizations, and which demands experimentation of structure, form, and process. Source: Asynchronous Learning Networks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception. The sociological theory that the loss of the support of objectively established religion, the dissolution of the last remnants of pre-capitalism, together with technological and social differentiation or specialisation, have led to cultural chaos is disproved every day; for culture now impresses the same stamp on everything. Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment, by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, 1944. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reproduction technology for a new eugenics by Glayde Whitney. The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the Galtonian Revolution will come to fruition. This new revolution in the new millennium, which I call the Galtonian Revolution (Whitney, 1995; 1997a) will be more momentous for the future of mankind than was the Copernican Revolution or the Darwinian Revolution. For with the Galtonian Revolution, for the first time, the major changes will not be to ideas alone, but rather the major change will be to mankind itself. Source: Th e Galton Institute conference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stratfor - The Internet's most intelligent source of international news and analysis. Stratfor, Inc. is a private global intelligence services company that was founded in 1995 and is located in Austin, Texas. Stratfor provides its clients with customized in-depth analysis and forecasting focusing on global, geopolitical, and financial issues that affect their competitive position. Stratfor pioneered the field of business intelligence and is unrivaled in its range of cutting-edge, Internet-based capabilities. I recommend their daily email newsletter. Source: Stratfor.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ExploreZone. Science, space exploration and breaking news from the global environment. Source: ExploreZone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The international drug complex. When the visible hand of crime fractures the strong arm of the law. Understanding the intertwined dynamics of international crime, law enforcement and the flourishing drug economy Source: Hans T. van der Veen, European University Institute, San Domenico, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As We May Think by Vannevar Bush. Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his record more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursion may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important. Source: The Atlantic Monthly, 1945. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alan's bubble. Greenspan supported this thesis in an article entitled "Gold and Economic Freedom" (1966), claiming that the gold standard provided the only reliable balancing mechanism in the banking system and was the ultimate protector of property rights. Likewise, he blamed the Federal Reserve for its loose monetary policy in 1927, which spilled over into the stock market and led directly to the 1929 collapse. In the same article, he attacked welfare spending in the strident language of his mentor: "The welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which government confiscates the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a variety of welfare schemes." Source: Prospect Magazine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Strange fiction. Jack Parsons & The Curious Origins of The American Space Program. So this was official history. The GALCIT project and Aerojet Engineering Corporation (of which Parsons was one of the founding shareholders) had become an important part of aerial warfare research during the Second World War. Later in the 1950s the Jet Propulsion Laboratory would be at the center of the race to space. It would seem no one cared to acknowledge the important entrepreneurial role played by a disciple of the unsavory Aleister Crowley. Why was that? Operation Economic Depression by Palisade Business. International operative Bart Bestley fights a worldwide conspiracy to control the money supply and create conditions for a global market crash. Confronting the Patriarchs--a super-secret society of the world's wealthiest families--Bestley and his Gallic sponsors, Jean and George LeBlanc, struggle to unravel the Patriarchs' schemes before millions of investors are ruined and the world is plunged into another Great Depression. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Role of Language in the Perceptual Processes. [Not dealing with the problem of "perception" directly in my work, I shall use this term here in the vernacular sense. I do not consider myself qualified to define it, and so shall use quotation marks to indicate my nontechnical treatment of this type of human reactions. I cannot avoid dealing with the problems of "perception" indirectly but will do so from a different angle]. Source: European Society for General Semantics . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ki and the Arts of Sex, Healing and Corporate Body Building by W. David Kubiak. Two useful analogies for discussing ki transactions can be drawn from fiscal accounting and electromagnetic theory. In the fiscal analogy ki or attention is treated like a currency that may be paid out, taken in, accumulated, squandered, invested, etc. Each healthy individual is thought to begin each day with a "subsistence allowance" of ki from the collective contributions of his psychological constituents. His net balance at any particular moment, however, is largely determined by the profitability of his subsequent transactions with the natural and social environment. A kind of double-entry bookkeeping can thus be imagined, balancing attention received against attention paid out. Social relations are occasions of vital trade, and far more is at stake than mere ego massage. Not only does a regular ki surplus increase your energy, potency, and vital charisma, but running a deficit can impoverish your sex life and eventually your health. Source: W. David Kubiak. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Praxis Review, a quarterly journal of contemporary management theory and technique. Published quarterly with articles and reviews of management science, business psychology, training and development, systems models, scenario planning, tests and measurements, cognitive technology, fiction and popular media, human resources, organizational design, learning systems, human factors, creativity and design, web theory. Source: Praxis Review. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Logic of Heterarchies - Making Organizations Competitive for Knowledge-based Competition. Arbeitsbericht Nr. 91 des Seminars f�r Allg. Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Betriebswirtschaftliche Planung und Logistik der Universit�t zu K�ln, K�ln, 1996, zugleich Vortragsreferat auf der II CEMS Academic Conference, 12.-14. September 1996, Universita Bocconi, Mailand. 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