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Whole and General Systems: A new conceptual framework and
paradigm: Tools, Links and Comments
Venus and David, - FUSION put together
-
design with nature...
The Roman
Aphrodite is the also the Neolithic mother goddess who rises
from the sea and epitomizes collective values:
a force which is balanced by David who represents ego and self,
the dauntless individual vs. giants - FISSION - take
apart - Two very different people from different
times. At the same time the analogous as biological humans.
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from the machine
model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard
pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces.
Up until the present we thought we could figure it all out. It
was just a matter of time before we "solved" all the puzzles of
the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of
energy and location it's a question of profound meaning.
The concept of
Complementarily
is to look at one and the same event with two
or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles.
The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also
complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these
contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.
The separation by
Descartes of dualism of mind and matter, body and spirit, church
and state, is replaced by a Cartesian shift.
Matter moves from
here to there without going through the intermediate space,
objects act on each other at a distance without any physical
connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence
in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in
the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh. Chaos
theory,
finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Correction:
On the web-page http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ it says that
neutrinos do not have mass or energy. While it is debatable whether
neutrinos have mass or not, they certainly have energy. Just as light
does not have mass, but has energy.
The full relativistic formula for the energy of a particle is
E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where E is the energy, p is the momentum and
c is the speed of light. So a particle that is massless (such as
a photon or a neutrino) has an energy of E=pc.
You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:
http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no
mass -
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OFFICE 97
June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET?
Intranets are the integration of Internet
paradigms and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure to create dramatically more effective business
management systems. Microsoft's approach to intranet systems is based on:
melding public and private networks into one, integrating Web page and link
paradigms for all products, simplifying applications deployment and
administration, and integrating all of the above into existing investments
We are looking for additions and comments for "
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Bill Gates and the Internet
journal sent Friday June 15th" (In Hypertext).
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
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copies send message "Request SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL" to
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The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
copy which is on:
BELOW is the draft text ( after the index )
look at dates
for the hypertext version and syj615.txt for plain text,
and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version.
When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
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Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
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On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
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struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
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The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
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.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
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undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
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and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
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Welcome to the Synergy Network NEWS PAGE ONE
Whole and General Systems: A new conceptual framework and
paradigm: Tools, Links and Comments
- FUSION put together
-
design with nature...
The Roman
Aphrodite is the also the Neolithic mother goddess who rises
from the sea and epitomizes collective values:
a force which is balanced by David who represents ego and self,
the dauntless individual vs. giants - FISSION - take
apart - Two very different people from different
times. At the same time the analogous as biological humans.
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from the machine
model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard
pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces.
Up until the present we thought we could figure it all out. It
was just a matter of time before we "solved" all the puzzles of
the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of
energy and location it's a question of profound meaning.
The concept of
Complementarily
is to look at one and the same event with two
or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles.
The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also
complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these
contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.
The separation by
Descartes of dualism of mind and matter, body and spirit, church
and state, is replaced by a Cartesian shift.
Matter moves from
here to there without going through the intermediate space,
objects act on each other at a distance without any physical
connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence
in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in
the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh. Chaos
theory,
finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Correction:
On the web-page http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ it says that
neutrinos do not have mass or energy. While it is debatable whether
neutrinos have mass or not, they certainly have energy. Just as light
does not have mass, but has energy.
The full relativistic formula for the energy of a particle is
E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where E is the energy, p is the momentum and
c is the speed of light. So a particle that is massless (such as
a photon or a neutrino) has an energy of E=pc.
You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:
http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no
mass -
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OFFICE 97
June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET?
Intranets are the integration of Internet
paradigms and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure to create dramatically more effective business
management systems. Microsoft's approach to intranet systems is based on:
melding public and private networks into one, integrating Web page and link
paradigms for all products, simplifying applications deployment and
administration, and integrating all of the above into existing investments
We are looking for additions and comments for "
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Bill Gates and the Internet
journal sent Friday June 15th" (In Hypertext).
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
is distributed on Fridays to about 30,000 readers, in thirty countries, see below. To request
copies send message "Request SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL" to
pflaump@cfl.rr.com.
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The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
copy which is on:
BELOW is the draft text ( after the index )
look at dates
for the hypertext version and syj615.txt for plain text,
and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version.
When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
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Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
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the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
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Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
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months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Make PORTALS
your home page and use "wiredbrain" password "synergy" for set-up start
pages.
MSN now does the best search
Social
ergonomics
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The Roman
Aphrodite is the also the Neolithic mother goddess who rises
from the sea and epitomizes collective values:
a force which is balanced by David who represents ego and self,
the dauntless individual vs. giants - FISSION - take
apart - Two very different people from different
times. At the same time the analogous as biological humans.
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from the machine
model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard
pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces.
Up until the present we thought we could figure it all out. It
was just a matter of time before we "solved" all the puzzles of
the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of
energy and location it's a question of profound meaning.
The concept of
Complementarily
is to look at one and the same event with two
or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles.
The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also
complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these
contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.
The separation by
Descartes of dualism of mind and matter, body and spirit, church
and state, is replaced by a Cartesian shift.
Matter moves from
here to there without going through the intermediate space,
objects act on each other at a distance without any physical
connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence
in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in
the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh. Chaos
theory,
finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Correction:
On the web-page http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ it says that
neutrinos do not have mass or energy. While it is debatable whether
neutrinos have mass or not, they certainly have energy. Just as light
does not have mass, but has energy.
The full relativistic formula for the energy of a particle is
E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where E is the energy, p is the momentum and
c is the speed of light. So a particle that is massless (such as
a photon or a neutrino) has an energy of E=pc.
You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:
http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no
mass -
Sendpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.comtm">Dpflaump@cfl.rr.comm
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL contributions:
NEWS PAGES
doc1.htm
doc2.htm
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OFFICE 97
June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET?
Intranets are the integration of Internet
paradigms and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure to create dramatically more effective business
management systems. Microsoft's approach to intranet systems is based on:
melding public and private networks into one, integrating Web page and link
paradigms for all products, simplifying applications deployment and
administration, and integrating all of the above into existing investments
We are looking for additions and comments for "
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Bill Gates and the Internet
journal sent Friday June 15th" (In Hypertext).
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
is distributed on Fridays to about 30,000 readers, in thirty countries, see below. To request
copies send message "Request SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL" to
pflaump@cfl.rr.com.
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The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
copy which is on:
BELOW is the draft text ( after the index )
look at dates
for the hypertext version and syj615.txt for plain text,
and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version.
When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
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Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
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OPEN-ME is the second page
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VISIONS of blue sky futures
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discussion and activities
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for information on the internet
also internet news
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the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
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Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
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Whole and General Systems: A new conceptual framework and
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- FUSION put together
-
design with nature...
The Roman
Aphrodite is the also the Neolithic mother goddess who rises
from the sea and epitomizes collective values:
a force which is balanced by David who represents ego and self,
the dauntless individual vs. giants - FISSION - take
apart - Two very different people from different
times. At the same time the analogous as biological humans.
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from the machine
model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard
pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces.
Up until the present we thought we could figure it all out. It
was just a matter of time before we "solved" all the puzzles of
the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of
energy and location it's a question of profound meaning.
The concept of
Complementarily
is to look at one and the same event with two
or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles.
The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also
complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these
contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.
The separation by
Descartes of dualism of mind and matter, body and spirit, church
and state, is replaced by a Cartesian shift.
Matter moves from
here to there without going through the intermediate space,
objects act on each other at a distance without any physical
connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence
in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in
the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh. Chaos
theory,
finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Correction:
On the web-page http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ it says that
neutrinos do not have mass or energy. While it is debatable whether
neutrinos have mass or not, they certainly have energy. Just as light
does not have mass, but has energy.
The full relativistic formula for the energy of a particle is
E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where E is the energy, p is the momentum and
c is the speed of light. So a particle that is massless (such as
a photon or a neutrino) has an energy of E=pc.
You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:
http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no
mass -
Sendpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.comtm">Dpflaump@cfl.rr.comm
RE:
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OFFICE 97
June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET?
Intranets are the integration of Internet
paradigms and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure to create dramatically more effective business
management systems. Microsoft's approach to intranet systems is based on:
melding public and private networks into one, integrating Web page and link
paradigms for all products, simplifying applications deployment and
administration, and integrating all of the above into existing investments
We are looking for additions and comments for "
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Bill Gates and the Internet
journal sent Friday June 15th" (In Hypertext).
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
is distributed on Fridays to about 30,000 readers, in thirty countries, see below. To request
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The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
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When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
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OPEN-ME is the second page
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Register as beta tester
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The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
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VISIONS of blue sky futures
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MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
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current case
discussion and activities
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meaning and policy
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current discussions and
documents
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feelings and sufi
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intro to groups
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education; small
schools and ethics
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TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
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setup for group STYLES
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writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
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Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
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the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
a force which is balanced by David who represents ego and self, the dauntless individual vs. giants - FISSION - take apart - Two very different people from different times. At the same time the analogous as biological humans.
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from the machine model, clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a world of strange and mysterious forces.
Up until the present we thought we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before we "solved" all the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot more than the problem of energy and location it's a question of profound meaning.
The concept of Complementarily
is to look at one and the same event with two or more frames of reference, electrons are waves and particles. The two frames mutually exclude each other, but they also
complement each other, and only the juxtaposition of these
contradictory frames provide a exhaustive view.
The separation by
Descartes of dualism of mind and matter, body and spirit, church
and state, is replaced by a Cartesian shift.
Matter moves from
here to there without going through the intermediate space,
objects act on each other at a distance without any physical
connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence
in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in
the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh. Chaos
theory,
finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Correction:
On the web-page http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ it says that
neutrinos do not have mass or energy. While it is debatable whether
neutrinos have mass or not, they certainly have energy. Just as light
does not have mass, but has energy.
The full relativistic formula for the energy of a particle is
E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where E is the energy, p is the momentum and
c is the speed of light. So a particle that is massless (such as
a photon or a neutrino) has an energy of E=pc.
You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:
http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no
mass -
Sendpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.comtm">Dpflaump@cfl.rr.comm
Matter moves from
here to there without going through the intermediate space,
objects act on each other at a distance without any physical
connections, waves move in space in a ether that has no existence
in space-time as neutrinos have no mass or energy but exist in
the billions passing through our not too, too solid flesh. Chaos
theory,
finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Correction:
On the web-page http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ it says that
neutrinos do not have mass or energy. While it is debatable whether
neutrinos have mass or not, they certainly have energy. Just as light
does not have mass, but has energy.
The full relativistic formula for the energy of a particle is
E^2 = p^2 c^2 + m^2 c^4, where E is the energy, p is the momentum and
c is the speed of light. So a particle that is massless (such as
a photon or a neutrino) has an energy of E=pc.
You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:
http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no
mass -
Sendpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.comtm">Dpflaump@cfl.rr.comm
You may be able to learn more at the following urls or elsewhere:
http: //zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/122/mar4/sprel.html
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no
mass -
Sendpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.comtm">Dpflaump@cfl.rr.comm
http://zopyros.ccqc.uga.edu/~kellogg/docs/rltvt/rltvt.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/physics-faq/part4.html
-mark at noc@noether.UCSC.EDU
Great let's see more of this ! I thought E=MC2 so it maybe hard to have energy with no mass -
Sendpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaumpflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.comtm">Dpflaump@cfl.rr.comm
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RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL contributions:
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OFFICE 97
June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET?
Intranets are the integration of Internet
paradigms and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure to create dramatically more effective business
management systems. Microsoft's approach to intranet systems is based on:
melding public and private networks into one, integrating Web page and link
paradigms for all products, simplifying applications deployment and
administration, and integrating all of the above into existing investments
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When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
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Date:
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From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
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When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
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The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
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On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
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struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
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Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
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The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
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OFFICE 97
June 13, 1996 -- Microsoft Intranet Strategy Day.
DEMO of WHAT IS AN INTRANET?
Intranets are the integration of Internet
paradigms and standards with a corporation's existing network, desktop and
server infrastructure to create dramatically more effective business
management systems. Microsoft's approach to intranet systems is based on:
melding public and private networks into one, integrating Web page and link
paradigms for all products, simplifying applications deployment and
administration, and integrating all of the above into existing investments
We are looking for additions and comments for "
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Bill Gates and the Internet
journal sent Friday June 15th" (In Hypertext).
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
is distributed on Fridays to about 30,000 readers, in thirty countries, see below. To request
copies send message "Request SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL" to
pflaump@cfl.rr.com.
pflaump@cfl.rr.com.htmpflaump@cfl.rr.comp://pflaump@cfl.rr.comt/documents/ JOURNAL, is waiting for input.
The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
copy which is on:
BELOW is the draft text ( after the index )
look at dates
for the hypertext version and syj615.txt for plain text,
and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version.
When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
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Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
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contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
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We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
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The first class group
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NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
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Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
We are looking for additions and comments for "
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The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
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and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version.
When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
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Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
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OPEN-ME is the second page
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Register as beta tester
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VISIONS of blue sky futures
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MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
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current case
discussion and activities
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meaning and policy
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current discussions and
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schools and ethics
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TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
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See newbie.htm THE
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for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
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Send comments or contributions
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The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
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Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
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we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
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Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
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RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL Bill Gates and the Internet
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is distributed on Fridays to about 30,000 readers, in thirty countries, see below. To request
copies send message "Request SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL" to
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The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
copy which is on:
BELOW is the draft text ( after the index )
look at dates
for the hypertext version and syj615.txt for plain text,
and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version.
When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
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and participate in the project without charge or registration at
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The site itself will
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We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
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GO HERE FIRST
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FIRST page in the
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100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
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NEWBIE in plain.txt
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The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The Synergy process is for many to provide input to the draft
copy which is on:
BELOW is the draft text ( after the index )
look at dates
for the hypertext version and syj615.txt for plain text,
and syj615.htp ( p for word pad) for the SHORT and final version.
When you open the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL in your browser you can save plain text
to file by using the file button. To save hypertext use view,
source, edit; select all, and copy in order to paste text to
clipboard then transfer to Word Pad or other editor. You can add
what you will, questions and comments, remove what you think
unnecessary and e-mail the new version back to me. Other
contributions, announcements, can be sent directly to me.
For example:
SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
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OPEN-ME is the second page
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Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
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feelings and sufi
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intro to groups
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education; small
schools and ethics
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TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
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setup for group STYLES
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writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
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Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
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Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
Date:
Sun, 16 Jun 1996 10:59:31 +0800 (WST)
From:
Kim FLINTOFF
To:
pflaump@cfl.rr.com
pflaump@cfl.rr.cometepflaump@cfl.rr.com ripflaump@cfl.rr.com
I just have a couple of queries -
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
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orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
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the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
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Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
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society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
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breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
a) I seem to get 2 mailings of the same copy of the http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL - is this
really necessary - my system administrator is pretty tight with space!!
Peter:
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't.
I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
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SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
There are bugs in the mailing system. It works and then it doesn't. I send a copy to myself and if I don't get it in a day or so, I resend.
b) I am using a Lynx system via university - I actually dial in from home
using an old Amiga 500, 2400 baud modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) and a VT100 emulation programmed -
the mail system is PINE (not sure what version) but the point is I get
zillions of formatting commands distributed through the text - any clues
on how to make it more readable for myself??
Peter:
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor.
Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then
save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it
in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste
to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the
and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good
way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me
as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard
binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages
where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
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NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
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SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
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Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The test is to see if http format via E-mail can go from the web to the word processor. Use the browser to open the SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL ( Saved from your mailer to file ) then save the image from your browser and all the http code will be gone - you also can run your mouse over it in your browser with the right click down and then use ctrl insert to copy and shift insert to paste to any note pad or MS Word doc same as selects all, copy and paste. You know you can see the and copy HTTP code in your browser by using View then source frame ? This is a good way of learning - how did they do that ? I have been trying to get people to edit and return to me as a form of synergy. You can also useftp.wiredbrain.com user pflaump password synergy UNIX standard binary to up and down load - including free web pages in / (public_html) ~ pflaumpPages where there are examples of many types of pages.
Well that's about it for the time being - except I noticed some comments
about not relying on universities, colleges etc.. in the current
issue....well I would like to point out that there are many -VERY MANY-
people who are not financially able to access even a moderate level of up
to date technology ( I am a tertiary graduate of 10 years living in
Australia and it is a struggle for me to maintain my meager system) - as you
can see from the description of my system I am at the low end of technology
but it only cost me about $200 Australian to get the access I have - thanks
to my university which provides free E-mail, Internet access, ftp, etc to
all students - if it weren't for them you wouldn't be hearing from me now!!
Peter: I think you have just proven my point.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
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OPEN-ME is the second page
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Register as beta tester
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The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
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current discussions and
documents
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feelings and sufi
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intro to groups
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education; small
schools and ethics
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TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
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setup for group STYLES
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writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
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Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
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Send comments or contributions
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the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The low level of access is because they
have their priorities wrong. I was just talking to a local boy who finished the
IB program
and is going to MIT.
They gave him $20,000 of the $30,000 annual cost. I thought
that the cost is too high for humanities or social science. You have to go to MIT
or Cal Tech to get a good return on investment - financial and all that effort.
The preceding comments may be totally irrelevant to the point being made
but I haven't got on my soapbox for a while -
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Don't forget the WORKING POOR!!
Cheerio for now
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Kim Flintoff
st962001@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au
For those that get
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
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Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL e-mail:
When you get it you save to a /temp file. You can then open it in
your editor. For those that want plain text and can use the
browsers edit button, go select all, copy and paste to word
processor without any http codes.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The topics include knowledge about human behavior, the Internet
and other life forms, education, management, economics, and
policy. Hyper-links references demonstrate the power of the
Internet and hypertext to make connections, i.e.
Learning and DOING:
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information
works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right
and what are the names of the ones I am missing ?
AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria
BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL,
CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland
FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland
IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX,
MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH,
PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG,
TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
On Monday, June 10th,
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The demonstration of how hypertext links can give multi-dimensional information works is at the end of the page BELOW with the references and on the other Synergy Pages see visions, synergy, etc.
The following 30 countries are on the mailing list - do I have them right and what are the names of the ones I am missing ? AR, Argentina AT, Austria AU, Australia BG, Bugiria BR, Brazil CA, Canada CH, Switzerland CL, CR, Croasia DE, Germany ES, Spain FI, Finland FR, France HK, Hong Kong ID, IE, Ireland IT, Italy JP, Japan KR, MX, MY, Malaysia NL, Netherlands NZ, New Zealand PH, PL, Poland PT, SE, Sweden SG, TR, Turkey UK, Great Britain ZA, Russia RO Romania
The New York Times on the Web launched an
interactive multimedia photo journalism project that chronicles Bosnia's
struggle for peace. "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace," features an
electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty /images by renowned
photo journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war
and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet access can view
and participate in the project without charge or registration at
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps, audio
clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents, and links to
relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions and forum
contributions will be posted regularly on the site.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The site itself will
remain accessible until August.
We invite you to visit this new and important Web site early and often. It
can be reached either from
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
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writing - New Visions
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NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
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the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The New York Times on the Web's home page
(http://www.nytimes.com), or by pointing your browser to
http://www.nytimes.com/bosni a.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group
"Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
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Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
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setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Index of /
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
GO HERE FIRST
Parent Directory TURNPIKE
NEWS and comments - interactions
FIRST page in the
orginal long form
Directory of the site
100's of DOCUMENTS
GUIDE to the site made by Altavista
Guide for NEWBIES and the
internet
NEWBIE in plain.txt
START of the network
The first class group "Administrators" to report
You can see what a synergy class
is like.
![[TXT]]()
OPEN-ME is the second page
![[TXT]]()
Register as beta tester
![[DIR]]()
The SYNERGY files/ and subfiles:
NEW, http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/, LOGOS, ETHOS, Pages,
![[TXT]]()
VISIONS of blue sky futures
![[DIR]]()
MAIN http files includes LOGOS and
![[DIR]]()
current case
discussion and activities
![[DIR]]()
meaning and policy
![[DIR]]()
current discussions and
documents
![[DIR]]()
feelings and sufi
![[DIR]]()
intro to groups
![[DIR]]()
education; small
schools and ethics
![[DIR]]()
TRANSPERSONAL psychology Files
![[TXT]]()
setup for group STYLES
![[TXT]]()
SYNERGY A new style of
writing - New Visions
See newbie.htm THE
NEWBIE PAGE
for information on the internet
also internet news
pflaump@cfl.rr.com/epflaump@cfl.rr.combopflaump@cfl.rr.com height="70">Dr.
Peter Pflaum
Since I am getting questions, from
all over the world, in the mail at pflaump@cfl.rr.com:pflaump@cfl.rr.comlpflaump@cfl.rr.com.pflaump@cfl.rr.com.compflaump@cfl.rr.compflaump@cfl.rr.com="45" height="52">
Mr. Bullwinkle Moose " Dr. Know-it-All "
Send comments or contributions
to:pflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.copflaump@cfl.rr.comBR> On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
OPEN-ME is the second page
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The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
On-line training from RJC Designs in Canada
the hyper text links -
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL too long... what do we take out ?
RE:
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL: Nature does makes leaps ? Look before
you jump ...if you get to the end you will hear about how to be
rich.
NOTE:
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The experiment: Please download this into your word
processor and E-mail it back to me at Revans, R.W.
The Origins and Growth of Action Learning
( 1982)
THEME: Continuous and discontinuous CHANGE:
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
BIOLOGY: Time Frames: Niles Eldredge and Gould's "Punctuated
Equilibria" I am sure someone knows a lot more about this than I
do.
PHYSICS:
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. Surely someone can help us
with this ?
Social Science: Charles Handy:
The Age of Unreason
involves
management, learning organizations, education, economics and
policy
Mancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The Age of Unreason
involves management, learning organizations, education, economics and policyMancur Olson's Rise and Fall of Nations.
Technology :Shoshana Zuboff details case studies -- In
The Age Of
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The Smart Machine, 1988
documentsDY:
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The idea of the virtual office/school.
You Click on your office/school, which is rented space on the
Internet.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The Executive Suite Bill Gates Vision
location is near the mall, bank,
library, post office and other net services. As you enter the
building you can visit your accountant, tax lawyer, private
detective, travel service, advertising agency or go directly to
your office or one of the members of your work group/classmates.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The actual office is a interface of programs using a WinFrame and the market
type connection to a office suite programs, word processor in
hypertext, d-base, spreadsheet, presentations, audio and visual
presentations. Your files in file c: is on your computer, f: is a
central file d-base in your mail remote office, g: h: etc. are PC
of your work group, L: is a data base service of the software
with photo styles and other plug ins: ADD YOUR IDEAS HERE !
From your e-mail you connect to files and send a answer to a
price quote, reference, or other information. From your calendar
you mail greeting to your grandmother on her 87th birthday and
order a present from the specialty shop in the mall. You check
how your group is doing with the blue sky paradigm of the virtual
office - which this document is a copy. ADD you comments ideas -
and return to me.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
As there is a seamless interface between your office and the
virtual off, there is between the school and reality.
There is
the help function and tutor on your machine, on the net, with a
BBS and help desk. You maybe learning algebra or the design of
chips. You have people to consult, multilocular programming where
the units can be reassembled to your specific needs. You don't
have to remember a lot because your computer keeps good track of
facts for you.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Do keep up the intriguing work !
An Vranckx
Belgium
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Dear Peter Pflaum,
I have been intrigued by your messages and how they found their way into
my mailbox. I am currently completing my PhD, and wish I could quote some
of the staments that you made in the first texts (How do you wish to be
quoted on them? as: SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL?)
(pep) YES That's fine ....
I fail to understand the case study/experiment, however.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The other day, I was reading C lifford Stoll, Sillicon Snake Oil - Second
Thoughts on the Information Highway (Pan Books, 1996). It summarizes large
bits of my thoughts about virtual offices etc.
(pep) I will add it some how ? HYPE vs. HOPE vs. REALITY ?
The idea is this -
CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what
we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The idea is this - CONNECT THINKING and DOING as we are doing. What we are is what we do and what we do is what we are.
What you say about the unreasonable person, innovation depending on the
one who behaves different from the 'normal': much is to be said on that
issue. I found a very reasonable explanation for these processes in a
superb book that you may have read as well, W ill McWhinney, Paths of
Change (published 1992 at Sage, Newbury Park).
Date:
13 Jun 96 08:51:15 -0500
From:
"Eric Harvey"
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
I received a notice requesting work for your upcoming issue of
Synergy. I am a philsophy professor and conventionally published author,
currently experiementing with the net. I have a new webpage devoted to
poetry and fiction on the root themes of religion. IF you would like to
use something from it, that would be fine with me if you would include a
link with the credits.
Neal Weiner
THE VIRTUE OF WHAT IS
http://www.marlboro.edu/~ nweiner
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
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Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Hi peter, here are some of my thoughts.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The New World Order, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Internet as a life
form are all temporary antidotes to basic human needs. Needs such as
knowing where we came from, where we are going, and how to get there.
Needs like these are the primary connection of all humans.
The
question is not how many more ideas can we imagine or support with
data or conceptualize; the question is, which theories, faiths, and
social structures will meet the needs of common people. I am
suggesting that true change will result from definite, concrete cures
to the questions that are common to all individuals. People have asked
the same questions since the beginning and the mind will always have a
new approach to take, but the answers reside in history not in the
future. We need to exhaust our energies and time to explore the past.
Too many people are trying to reinvent the mouse trap instead of using
the one we have.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Natura non facit saltum;
Nature does not take leaps, but it does it ?
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The idea of natural
stability is based on the strong and natural human instinct,
hope, and desire for an orderly universe which is understandable,
predictable and under control. We want, need, desire, and
therefore create the illusion of control of our destinies,
freewill is not important or reasonable. We fear the uncertainty
of freedom, and seek strong certain leaders to hold our
collective hands in the storm.
The slow, continuous,
evolutionary, progressive, process of change is reasonable and
politically correct. Predictable Change depends on the future
being determined by the knowledge of the past. Change can be
understood by the rules of the past and controlled by the
leaders, scholars, politicians of the present.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but
Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of
the Species" or the "/decent of man"
The physical fossil record
does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady
"progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites
to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science
adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age
by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and
order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does
rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative
activity.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
Physics:
The Uncertainty principle:
Quanta theory is a real paradigm shift from a machine model,
clock work world, with hard parts and material hard pieces, to a
world of strange and mysterious forces. Up until now we thought
we could figure it all out. It was just a matter of time before
we "solved" the puzzles of the universe. Quanta theory is a lot
more than the problem of energy and location.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The concept of
Complementarily is the ability to look at one and the same event
with two or more frames of reference, with different prospective,
with different time frames and view points at one and the same
time. Chaos theory, finding patterns in random events, often
seems to explain nature in ways that deterministic models could
not.
Social Science:
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The Age of Unreason: ( Charles Handry, Harvard
Business School Press 1990)
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The idea of the unreasonable person comes from George Bernard
Shaw. Shaw observed that real change and progress depended on the
unreasonable person. Reasonable people adapt to the social
realities of their time. Unreasonable people try to make reality
adapt to new ideas. St. Joan, H.G. Wells, Shaw, Jesus, Galileo, (
add your candidates for people of new vision, who moved beyond
the conventions of their time ) ..we call this "blue sky
paradigms", bold imagines, going where no man has gone before,
leadership, courage, heroic, in public and private lives doing
and thinking the unreasonable - Don Quixote, the dreamer, being
trailed by Sancho Pansa, the reasonable fool.
Change is different now, massive downsizing, technological
shifts, means a period of uncertainty where new rules are played
in a new game by different people.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The ecological niches are how
all creatures great and small earn a living.
The way "/dork" is
organized in communities make the biggest difference in our
lives. From serfdom, enclosure, factories depended on a central
power source, to more diversified production using electrical
energy and "high" tech chemistry and communications,
transportation shifts all effect in very basic ways the shape of
our lives, personal, family, community, economic, business,
political and spiritual.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The introduction of running water in a
small Spanish village changed the way people met and talked at
the common well and washing house.
How do the creature of the sea, those who crawl upon the earth,
"earn a living" is the central enigma of the shifting dynamics of
not too stable ecological systems, business, families, and
nations. New absurd, strange, weird, freaky, ideas sometimes are
new ways of taking advantages of the opportunities and avoiding
the dangers of change. Learning becomes a constant experiment,
where the wisdom of leaders, scholars, investors, and bosses
maybe very wrong. Learning maybe disrespectful or down right
rebellious. Peer reviewed http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNALs seldom have a new idea. Peer
reviewed grants seldom take chances. Faced with fear of decline,
takeover, collapse, DOWNSIZING , new faces, new rules, new
questions, organizations frieze like rabbits in car headlights
not knowing where to turn until they are road kill.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
The tectonic plates deep beneath the way we earn a living are
under great stress and will break loose and time now as an earth
quake. We are expecting the "big one";
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
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will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
FOR EXAMPLE: How to make mega-bucks:
Mancur Olson's
The Rise and Fall of Nations.
Lord
Keynes
Who wrote of Newton
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was
the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians
and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on
the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as
those who began to build our intellectual inheritance
rather less than 10,000 years ago. "
The great economist
shorted the DM in 1920's to make himself, Cambridge
University, and the Insurance Companies he worked for a lot of
money. I have hear Mr. Soros talk about the difference between
Illusion and reality. ( He made a billion or so shorting the
pound ) People come to believe false ideas and replace their
ideas with reality. ( Government and Bank of England statements
about defending the pound ) When the difference becomes great
there is the chance to make a killing.
GO SHORT THE YEN: You borrow yen, as bonds, a futures contracts (
much more risk because of the fixed time periods on futures ).
This is going SHORT. You borrow something today and hope to pay
for it later at a lower price, thereby keeping the difference
between today's price and a future lower price. This is how
people can make money in up or down markets.
The yen is
overvalued and will drop by 50% to 200 % sometime soon.
When the Spanish mugged Peru and ran off with billions in gold (
the money at that time ) it raised prices in Spain. More money
meant the relative value of gold was lower - it would buy less
stuff.
The ancient regime with it's medieval mind set drove out
the productive forces of Arabs and Jews and replaced them with
the glorious bandits called conquistadors.
Japan has horded money
and the price of stuff is way out of line.
If they stop it the price of their money will drop from a slow
evolutionary change, if they don't stop it ( having a large trade
surplus ) the price of their money will drop from a discontinuous
change.
Their idea that they can "control" the future is vain
glorious as those of the Soviet Union, Philip II and the Roman
Catholic Church, IBM and GM, the federal reserve, and Pat
Robinson.
The SYNERGY http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL will be distributed on Fridays and go to
those that request copies at pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.pflaump@cfl.rr.comdbrain.net/documents/ JOURNAL
will replace all other mailing.
Our Nation is at risk
.
Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and
technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is
concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that
undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while
we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and
contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our
society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a
Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are
matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational
performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have
allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement
made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems
which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,
unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling,
and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18
months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to
renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and
breadth of our land.
RE:
The origin and design of the biosphere: Where I live:
It's a matter of perspective. How do I think about space, land,
place and time ? Archie Carr ( the famous turtle man from UF in
Gainsville ) described the world as seen by turtles.
They were
here as the continents rose and fell in the seas, great masses
moved on plates, mountains rose and wore down, as dinosaurs came
for a hundred million years and then disappeared in a long dark
night.
The dynamic planet as explained by Lovelock's Gaia is a
moving, changing, energetic, vibrant, place. It is our character
as a creature to create an image of our selves and our
environment that reflects our attitudes as much as any
"objective" reality. /images are made in the mind, have depth,
color, and feeling produced in the brain and "programmed" by
biology. I have been making an comparison from the living planet
to the Internet as a new life form. How do we get perspective, a
time frame on the Internet ?
The most important idea and theory of our time is Werner
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy.
" Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. "