"Information Ecologist"?????? -tj
On Nov 8, 2007 9:55 AM, Prof David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gentlefolk, > > I need a word. > > I am working on some educational proposal material, roughing out a > possible grant application to the Olin Foundation, and related > activities for 632. > > What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that > incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following: > art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics, > imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity, > entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and > enlightenment? > > And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that > discipline / degree / body of knowledge? > > Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly > ugly as a word. > > Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s > science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship > used by Charles Darwin in his travels). > > Ideas?? > > dave west > > _______________________________________________ > Advisory mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://santafecomplex.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory_santafecomplex.org > > -- ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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