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Reification is limitation

...The moment we've accepted that the purpose of information and of knowledge is "objectivity" – "the scientific method" naturally became the winner. We n

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There is no invisible hand

With the values we have, the only thing we are capable to create is the [[power structures|<em>power structure</em>]]!

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...ry scene. One necessary condition of successfully continuing our existence is the creation of an atmosphere of hope that the huge problems now confrontin <p>Which is a <em>new kind</em> of institution. And I make this proposal concrete and a

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IMAGES

...his is something no culture has really faced before. The typical situation is information scarcity. […] Lack of information can be very dangerous. [… ...ant, what is useful, what is not useful, where they live in a culture that is simply committed, through all of its media, to generate tons of information

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OLD IMAGES

...t-moving civilisation. The candle headlights represent the way information is created and used, which we have indiscriminately inherited from the past. ...but as a part of this reality, or a system within a system, whose purpose is to fulfil certain specific roles. Under this epistemology, the creative act

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WJR Thread

...Cybernetics, Wiener observed that our communication or societal "feedback" is broken. And that we must restructure it, and other systems, by (as we may s ...t chapter, "Information, Language and Society". If his technical language is unfamiliar, you may interpret the word "homeostasis" simply as the capabili

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CHG Thread

...ee the world? In what way might our societal evolution be redirected? What is it that we now take for granted that may quite thoroughly change? Can you i ...an instrument for communication, but for worldview sharing. Communication is in act ''sacrificed''...</p>

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NEG Thread

<p>The threat of personal meaninglessness is ordinarily held at bay because routinised activities, in combination with b

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OBD Thread

<p>What we are talking about here is really the pivotal point of our evolutionary entanglement – leading to a <p>The rest is T.B.A.</p>

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Polyscopy

...ion, reflect the state of the art knowledge in relevant areas. Our mission is to foster the evolution of socio-technical systems in pivotal domains inclu ...ed further. The most important result we expect of those dialogs, however, is the evolution of a public sphere or of a "collective mind" that will be cap

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Temp1

<div class="col-md-3"><h4>– If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.</h4></div> ...cting the dots" (as our logo might suggest), is what knowledge federation is really all about. So imagine if we would lose this all-important capability

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Old Main

<div class="col-md-3"><h2>– If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.</h2></div> <div class="col-md-6"><p>The quote in the heading is by Sir Isaac Newton from 1675. Imagine if we would lose this all-important

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STORIES

...x</em> be... then... It is meaningless to argue whether <em>x</em> "really is" as defined. </p> <p>Independent, that is, from the <em><b>beliefs</b></em> of our traditions; and from the social "r

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IMAGES-OLD

...imagine a change in our socially sanctioned capability to comprehend that is comparable to the one that the Enlightenment brought?</p> ...ta of matter, or the social mechanisms by which our shared idea of reality is constructed, or the neurological mechanisms that govern our awareness – b

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Douglas Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution

<div class="col-md-9"><p>This is not only about technology! It's "new thinking" that leads to an incomparabl ...y of thinking." In what follows the main points are illustrated. The story is told in the book – but can be sufficiently reconstructed from the documen

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VISION

<div class="col-md-3"><h4>Our vision is a whole new division, specialization and organization of knowledge work.</h ...kill to do that – and so the only way they are using this nervous system is to broadcast information.</p></div>

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Knowledge Work Has a Flat Tire

...his main point that the question is not what needs to be done because that is clear, but whether we will be able to mobilize the public to implement the ...rhetoric was poignant: “The smart heads have found out that the climate is changing because of the climate gas CO2 in the air. CO2 concentration has i

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Knowledge Federation History

...n_community The Knowledge Federation community 2010]] (on our own website) is a random sample of ten participants pointing to the transdisciplinary chara ...t led to the ZIG Project, through which the prototype drafted in Barcelona is being practically realized; and to The Game-Changing Game as a generic proc

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APPLICATIONS

...w <em>kind of</em> academic result—which is not telling us how the world is, but <em><b>designed</b></em> to be <em>part of</em> the world and <em>inte <p>A <em><b>prototype</b></em> is</p>

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TQPortal

...ng hypothesis is that ''every act'' (node created or edited) at the portal is or can be a part of one or many structured '''conversations'''. The platfor The platform is in the process of adding a full Role-playing Game system which includes the

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CONVERSATIONS

...uld be like in 2050; I called my contribution "World in the year 2000". It is not possible to <em>predict</em> what the world will be like in 2050, I exp ...horeographed in a multitude of ways; our concrete plan, already in motion, is to institute <em><b>knowledge federation</b></em> at the Inter University C

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STORIES-OLD

...]<br><small><center>Even if we don't mention him explicitly, this elephant is the main hero of our stories.</center></small></p> ...argest challenge to communication! A shared [[paradigm|<em>paradigm</em>]] is what <em>enables us</em> to communicate. How can we make sense of new thing

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