On Social Learning, Sensemaking Capacity, and Collective Intelligence

Personas/Metaconstructs = State/Mode :: Identity/Experience Filter = Timelines...

Crossposted from Emergence Collective The Social API Lately there has been quite a bit of dialogue about writing a Social API (application programming interface) so that individuals and organizations can participate in "cross-platform" emergent innovation and action in a modular and plug-and-play manner. In our attempts to define...

This is part 7 in the series: The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization I've handled colour as...

"As president, I believe space exploration is not a luxury, not an afterthought, an...

“To think what thought is not prepared to think is that which alone deserves the name of...

lightness and darkness when the mind is asleep, but in dream, without the eyes to distract,...

A New Direction In AI Research Monica Anderson proposes adding a new target to ongoing AI...

Junto & beyond - further generations and explanations coming soon. also find full image...

Encoding and decoding appear in contemporary context as a fundamental feature of technology, in our...

Over the past few months, we've been discussing the various skills needed for effectively operating in a world characterized by information and accelerating change, and I've been assembling these ideas into a framework for a new thought architecture. This post will be the first in a 12 part series, and draws its influences from the fields of...

Monica Anderson discusses the ongoing paradigm shift - the "Holistic Shift" - which...

Brian Robertson wrote the Rule of Individual Action: No matter how clearly we’ve defined the rules, policies, and processes, we will occasionally see a need for action which doesn’t fit within the defined system. In most organizations we're tempted to hide such Individual Action for fear of blame, but doing so costs the...

Here comes a collection of thought sketches (or the microevolution of ideas revealed, if you...

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE by Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella Part 3 - Information and Meaning;...

Most people are well aware of the undesirable consequences that making their personal lives public...

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE by Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella Part 2 - Mind and Matter;...

LEVELS OF CONVERGENCE By Renata Lemos, Lucia Santaella. PART 1 Converging...

Citizen Kane -> aesthetics -> story -> reality -> perception -> senses ->...

This is part 8 in the series: The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization "..the...

We are on both sides, feeling something powerful transcending the limits of time/space and the...

If you are at a certain stage of awareness and being, in this polytopian unfolding, the...

Not only is the spirit of our age changing, growing more optimistic. Our ideologies and...

I admit that I am not the superstitious type. Superstitions have never resonated with me as my mind...

Many of us have been inspired by the cooperation meme lately, and it appears that our collective...

or The rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization (part 4) “Today, after over fifteen years of...

We've entered into a new year, the channels have been flooded with list upon list of 2010 predictions and trends, and now we're laying the foundations for how we'd like to characterize the times - David Houle is calling it the Transformation Decade, a tweet from @RitaJKing mentioned The Imagination Age, and Seth Godin rang in the new year with a...

Part 6 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization The peculiar ‘liquidity’...

AR Aura Recognition Gabriel Shalom, KS12 Presented in the production track of the 1st...

The idea for this post came up while reflecting on Wildcat’s latest posts on the Knowmad and from...

Groups and collectives come in an abundance of variety; they poetically coalesce into the...

In Hanif Kureishi's book The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), the main character Karim expresses...

ac_Sound Transform collage by Iuri Kothe Although our repositioning of augmented reality as...

Part 5 in the series : The Rise of the Cyber Unified Civilization If it works its already...

The more we can find out about the future, the more keenly we tend to try to understand its...

As life in our world becomes ever more complex, there is an ever increasing pressure on us to...

The Impact Bias "Here's two different futures that I invite you to contemplate, and you can...

Today, future-oriented acts and thoughts are exposed to personal and collective interpretation...

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals? — George Bernard Shaw Imagine a being so vast and powerful that its theory of mind of other...

This post was first published as part two of a series of three posts on on Augmentology...

Something I've noticed about internet communications (forums, msn, chat) is that they are more similar to my internal monologue than to face to face conversation. However, it is not a monologue, it is a dialogue or multilogue (polylogue? :P). I think this is primarily because of lower felt need to be be cautious, a willingness to risk displaying...

Learning about Fractals, Chaos, and Complex Systems has really changed my worldview, and...

This is an essay I recently wrote for a class on Fractals, Chaos, and Complex Systems. All...

We do not need salvation we need a transparent and complex enough interface W If there is one...

Some interesting books were recently brought to my attention by Carel. In one of them, Barry...

This post was first published as part three of a series of three posts on Augmentology...

The world as we know it is in disruption. Maybe it's always been in disruption, pushing us through cycles of apparent chaos so that evolution can continue and new paradigms emerge. Thanks to social technologies, we're growing into a globally connected communication system, and seem to be heading towards a tipping point. But what is it that we're...

In prefacing this question, I thought of beginning with a kind of disclaimer, stating that...

Or, The Risk of Extrapolating Linear Trends Against Non-Linear Systems. A common habit in forecasting, particularly in energy futures & economic growth, is to take roughly linear trends and extend them over the next few decades. The notion is that there is inertia in what has already happened that will make the future look markedly similar,...