I'd couple this with the Ulam talks.
After further understanding the global cultural pressures we've taken
on when we plunged gleefully over the edge into the digital
revolution, we need to add that to the mix.
Cracking up, cracking open.
Our tools make our revolutions possible and increase their impact and
speed.
Clearly there are dangers as well as benefits to all our hyperfast,
hyperconnected technology. As Krakauer ended the last talk, he
pointed to the stock-trading algorithms that reacted faster than
humans would have, and were a major push over the economic edge for
us. His take: these were a more disturbing example of machine
"intelligence" than other Doomsday machines, and are already embedded
in our culture.
Internally, externally. Extraordinary pressures, extraordinary
opportunities.
All connected.
We are in midair over the waterfall.
What we can do is start where we are: get honest and capable in our
selves and our communities. Reach out from here.
We can incorporate revolutions in governments, economics,
technologies, at a pace we can manage. We have to recognize our
situation more clearly first.
Much bigger stakes than what passwords we should use.
Tory
Tory Hughes
www.toryhughes.com
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On Sep 5, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
Interesting premise from Tom's latest op-ed piece: http://goo.gl/rm3Te
We're going through 4 huge shifts in the world, and no one has any
idea how to manage them:
Quote: Now let me say that in English: the European Union is
cracking up. The Arab world is cracking up. China’s growth model is
under pressure and America’s credit-driven capitalist model has
suffered a warning heart attack and needs a total rethink. Recasting
any one of these alone would be huge. Doing all four at once — when
the world has never been more interconnected — is mind-boggling. We
are again “present at the creation” — but of what?
The first (the EU) freaks me out most, both because it's
extraordinarily difficult to manage, and because no one in the US
seems to see how important it is.
Worth a read.
-- Owen
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