MP CyberNode ReportOn the road with collective intelligence

Focus on CI, RDFa, Drupal

• Programming in Drupal as a Collective Intelligence Platform (Drupal has RDFa in core)

• RDFa Resource Description Framework (attributes)

• Readying a generic CI Portal for hosted use or delivery as a hardware package

• Two prototypes Korea GCCSR, Kuwait EWS

Korea GCCSR EWS•News Aggregator

•Scanning System

•Situation Room

•First Prototype CI

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The GCCSR Building GimcheonInitial staff and guests

Kuwait PMO EWS

•News Aggregator

•EWS Scanning

•Futures Methods

•Situational Awareness

Kuwait - EWS

Where Have We Come FromWhere Are We Now

Where Are We GoingHow Do We Get There

Roots of Futures MethodologiesPre History • Ancient Times • Middle Ages Modern Era

Utopians • Mercier • Condorcet • Turgot

Philosophers • Fourier • Comte • Marx

ScienceFiction • H.G. Wells, • Jules Verne

Divination • Shamanism, • Mythology, • Taoism • Oracle Delphi

Pantheism Science & Religion

Visionaries • Arthur Clarke • Bucky Fuller

Positivism

Futuribles • B. de Jouvenel • Dennis Gabor

Futures Research • Club of Rome • Hudson Institute

Meta Industrial Era

Visionaries • Oscar Ichazo • John Lilly • W.I.Thompson • Willis Harman • Mark Markley

Integral Futures • Ken Wilber • R. Slaughter • S. Inayatullah

TransPersonalVisionaries • Descartes • DaVinci • Newton • Pascal

Obstacles to Soft Side Thinking

• Functional Fixedness

• Physical & Mental Blind Spots

• Cultural Programming

• Mechanistic & Deterministic Models

• Reductionist Empiricism

Cognitive Illusions

• Using steam to pump water to water wheels instead of driving the mill directly

• Including buggy whip holders on the first automobiles

• Constraining computer mediated communications to function like regular mail.

• Using multi media to produce interactive Books and Movies or otherwise emulate existing media.

• Comparing Cyberspace to the Interstate Highway System

Examples of Functional Fixedness:

Familiar Metaphors encourage Functional Fixedness

Psychological Fixation Blocks Creativity & VisionMaking it hard to adapt to such rapid change

Functional FixednessA Legacy of Positivist Thinking that is one of the Greatest Barriers to Mastering the Soft Methodologies

A Key Recurring Thought“Significant problems cannot be

solved at the same level of thinking that created them.”

Albert Einstein

New Focus on Soft Side Methodologies

Integrating Indigenous Wisdom, Deep Ecology, Transpersonal Insights & Methods

Broaden the bandwidth of communication technology to encourage emergent communication & organization styles

Refocus on Human Meaning & Purpose

Modern Roots of the Transpersonal• Gurdjieff ’s Fourth Way

• De Chardin’s Noosphere

• Ichazo’s Arica Institute

• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

• Grof’s Altered States of Consciousness

• Jung’s Collective Unconscious

Abraham Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

A Humanistic Guide to Homo Digitalis

A Template for specifying design parameters for new technologies to ensure the emergence of Humanism in the Digital World.

From Survival to Self Actualization

Self ActualizationIs Not An End PointBut a Self Renewing Drive

Human/Organizational Challenges

• The Hanover Principles

• Focus on Meaning & Purpose

• SOCBED (Self Organizing Community-Based Economic Development

• Convolving Space & Cyberspace

• Lessons for Planning New Cities

Methods and Tools

• Polynesian Voyaging

• Cultivating the Network of mind

• Cultivating the Mind of the Network

• Cultivating New Business Models

Ancient Polynesian Voyaging

• Circumnavigating the Pacific

• No Compass, Sextant, GPS

• Communicating with Ocean, Wind, Atmosphere, Temperature, Tides, Currents

Cultivating the Network of Minds

• Learning Community/Appreciative Systems

• Storytelling - Indigenous Wisdom

• Transpersonal & Quantum Metaphors

• Multi-Spectral Work Place Environments

• T. Autonomous Zones

Cultivating the Mind of the Network

• Self Org. Community Based Economic Dev.

• Social Network Agents

• Semantic Web, RDFa

• Convolving Cyber and Physical Spaces

• Serious Games...

Emerging Maps of Ubiquitous Convolved Cyber-Space

A visual taxonomy of different modes of communication and interaction created by designer Nathan Shedroff

FullyConvolved

MetaVerse

Cultivating Emergent Business Models

• Maruyama’s Morpho-Genetic Joint Ventures

• Open Source- Cathedral & the Bazaar, Clue Train Manifesto

• Temporary Autonomous Zones as Incubators

• Positive Sum Serious Games, Increasing Returns

Some Examples of Soft Side Methodologies

•Adventure Theater

•SOCBED

Group Methodologies

Require Unusual EnvironmentsFor Best Results

• Temporary Autonomous Zones

• Open Space Technology Meetings

• Adventure Theater

• SYNCONS

Adventure Theater

Participatory Methodologybased on principles of Social Architecture.

Myth, Story Telling, Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology, Theater Exercises, Native American Spirituality, Shamanic Journeying, Taoism, Gestalt, and new Western Theories of Mind (eg Howard Gardner) and approaches to Organizational Change (eg. Margaret Wheatley, Peter Senge, and David Cooperrider.

WayFinders Cybercafe & Community Visioning Center

Self Organizing Community Based Economic DevelopmentSOCBED

A Participatory Futures Research Methodology

A learning community action research experiment in Maui, Hawaii. Starring the Ke Ala Hoku children’s Vision for Hawaii’s Future.

Millennium Project Second Life Campus