Holopticism Definition Holopticism is a combination of Greek words holos (whole, holistic, holography...), optiké (vision) and tekhné (art, technique). It expresses the capacity for players in a given organization (or group) to perceive the emerging whole of the organization as if it were a unique entity, be it in a natural physical space or an online space. Properties Holoptical space A holoptical space is a space in which each participant gets a live perception of the Whole. In the original collective intelligence context, conditions of holopticism are given by physical 3D space; human natural organic senses serve as interfaces. Holopticism and transparency Holopticism shouldn't be confused with transparency. Holopticism and panopticism Holopiticism is the opposite from panopticism where the architecture offers a centralized and total vision to a power that gets its omnipotence from it (Michel Foucault – Discipline and Punish). Sousveillance Holopticism and Collective Intelligence Holopticism in MMOG's
Eye Computer: Turning Vision Into A Programmable Computer « Changizi Blog Our everyday visual perceptions rely upon unfathomably complex computations carried out by tens of billions of neurons across over half our cortex. In spite of this, it does not “feel” like work to see. Our cognitive powers are, in stark contrast, “slow and painful,” and we have great trouble with embarrassingly simple logic tasks. Might it be possible to harness our visual computational powers for other tasks, perhaps for tasks cognition finds difficult? This is not the first time scientists have attempted to make use of biological computation; this was first tried with DNA, tapping into the computational prowess inside cells. Why with the Eye? People are notoriously poor reasoners, whether in the probabilistic domain or logical domain, something I have also personally witnessed when teaching logic and computer science. There are several reasons why the visual modality is a promising one for biological computation. The idea of tapping into vision for computation is not new. Like this:
Swarm Wall Street: why an anti-political movement is the most important force on the planet | coalition of the willing Swarm Wall Street: why an anti-political movement is the most important force on the planet Posted on 10. Oct, 2011 by timrayner in Open culture, The movement Why are people occupying Wall Street? Meanwhile the occupation grows day by day. If camp in Manhattan makes the doyens of the status quo feel nervous, the explosion of Occupy Together events across the US last weekend will have sent anxiety levels through the roof. Political leaders must be wondering what is going on. Last week, the movement crossed a threshold. OccupyWallStreet is a new kind of political movement. This is a point that many commentators fail to appreciate. [The aim of] #OccupyWallSt should be to call out this corruption, and unite a movement across the nation to demand that we change the system that permits this corruption. This is hoping for too much – and too little. OccupyWallStreet is not a political movement in the traditional sense. Swarm movements shape identity in a completely different way. About timrayner
Bilingualism Will Supercharge Your Babys Brain | Think Tank What’s the Big Idea? Pop quiz! Bilingualism is: a. b. c. d. e. Yep, it’s ‘e.’ According to Princeton Neuroscientist Sam Wang, co-author with Sandra Aamodt of Welcome to Your Child’s Brain, the benefits of bilingualism go far beyond the ability to order convincingly at Maxim’s in Paris, or to read Dostoevsky in the original. Cognitive science has demonstrated that all learning is, to a great extent, a process of unlearning – of redefining the schema we use to mentally represent and categorize the world. Bilingual kids are also better, says Wang, at “theory of mind” – the ability to imagine what others are thinking and feeling. Effortful self-control, the wide-ranging benefits of which are addressed in two previous posts on Willpower and Self-Discipline, is also strengthened by early bilingualism. What’s the Significance? The significance is enormous. There’s a socio-evolutionary angle here, too. Or maybe not.
Beyond Sustainability: Why an All-Consuming Campaign to Reduce Unsustainability Fails <A HREF=" Widgets</A> Issue 25 - 03 | Beyond Sustainability: Why an All-Consuming Campaign to Reduce Unsustainability Fails By John EhrenfeldPublished Aug. 4, 2006 4:00 a.m. John Ehrenfeld proposes a radically different conversation about sustainability, one that moves away from mere problem solving, demands a new definition and envisions infinite possibilities. Download About John Ehrenfeld | In 2000, John R. Request Processed
Strategy. So, where do we start? Identity dont you think? Strategy? It’s all about defining how you will create and sustain (more or better) value: value for your customers, value for your shareholders, value for your people, and ultimately value for all your stakeholders and for society, whether at the local, national or global level. By the textbook, your strategy should derive from your organizational vision, position your organization or product portfolio so it can ensure a sustainable competitive advantage, and result in the attainment of your strategic goals. You have several tools and templates at your disposal: SWOT, PEST, 5 forces, Value chain…; several strategic models: cost leadership, differentiation, Blue Ocean, resource based… as well as planning methodologies that ensure the whole strategy is spelled out and ready for implementation… But where should you start? What is going to drive your strategic thinking? So a good place to start, at the intersection of business strategy and branding is probably to define your identity.
The Impossible Alternative This article is the introduction to the anthology What Comes After Money? Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community, edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan, just released by EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books. Contributors include economist Bernard Leitaer, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, musician Paul D. The money game ... Ever since the mangling of his ideas led to horrific dictatorships and genocidal regimes over the last century, the philosopher Karl Marx has been out of fashion, neglected and suppressed. Hypnotized by our culture, most people believe that our current form of money is the only rational way to exchange value -- that a debt-based currency, detached from any tangible asset, is something as organic and inevitable as carbon molecules, ice, or photosynthesis. This requires an act of will, and a leap of faith, from many of us. The political philosopher Antonio Negri demystified "capital" by defining it, simply, as a "social relation."
Book of the Week: Towards the hyperconnective society | Michel Bauwens When I pit my $75/hour rate against someone in Pakistan asking only $30/hour, how do I survive? And if I cut my rate to $35/hour, does someone else offer the same service for $15/hour? * Book: The Next Billion Seconds. I think this new book of Mark Pesce, which will likely suffer from a strong case of technological determinism, bremains very interesting nevertheless, by alerting us on one potential direction of technology. Excerpted from the introduction, from Mark Pesce: “What happens after we’re all connected? The hyperconnectivity created by the mobile dramatically improves an individual’s ability to earn a living. Key thesis: Hyperconnectivity, and the frictionless free fall of markets Mark Pesce: “The law of supply and demand amplifies under the influence of hyperconnectivity. At the moment, Uber sets the rates for its drivers, preventing a race to the bottom. The frictionless free-fall of markets doesn’t end with the individual labourer. Let’s use Kogan as an example.
The End of Strategy &laquo; how to save the world I spent much of my professional career developing and implementing Strategic Plans. The hardest part of this was that most people didn’t (and still don’t) know what ‘strategy’ is: the choice among alternative courses of action, not the determination of goals and objectives. It’s about how, not about what. Most of the ‘strategic’ plans I was given (by bosses, and by clients I was advising) were not plans at all, but rather targets. This failure of understanding and setting strategy seems endemic in all kinds of organizations today. The middle column of the chart above shows how strategic planning should work, but in most organizations it does not work at all. Instead of being driven by a Mission and Vision (which are inherently and perpetually dissatisfied with the current state, such that any happiness in those organizations that goes beyond transitory success is highly suspect), these organizations are driven by a Purpose — a shared “Why are we here?” But old habits die hard.
Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech. We Recommend The youth and those who are not so young participating in Occupy Wall Street deserve support, not scorn. Does the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has now spread from lower Manhattan to places as far flung as Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, signal a new beginning for the left? Since they can no loner ignore the occupation, the mainstream media has decided to mock and dismiss it instead. About the Author Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute and author of the... Also by the Author I love you. That slogan began in Italy in 2008.
We need Dungeon Masters for the real world Games are useful. Games are fun. Yet, somehow, gamification itself has become the butt of almost every internet joke I’ve heard recently. It isn’t because games aren’t useful. Because of this, I feel that gamification is perhaps the most offensive thing to hit the internet in the past couple of years. First, my qualifications: I have been a player of video games, RPGs, city-wide games of tag, iPhone games, and more for almost my entire life. But this is actually about more than that. Are you a gamer? Stop trying to make games better. Our schools are broken. Occupy Wall Street is full of people who want the game world to work better. Our games are rigged in the wrong direction. There are people whose understanding of games is helping real life in small ways– helping understand behaviour and guiding it towards more useful things. Yet the majority of our institutions are broken, giving us no way to get better at the things that matter most. FACT. The list goes on and on.
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% | Society It’s no use pretending that what has obviously happened has not in fact happened. The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent. Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent. Economists long ago tried to justify the vast inequalities that seemed so troubling in the mid-19th century—inequalities that are but a pale shadow of what we are seeing in America today. Some people look at income inequality and shrug their shoulders. First, growing inequality is the flip side of something else: shrinking opportunity. Third, and perhaps most important, a modern economy requires “collective action”—it needs government to invest in infrastructure, education, and technology. Economists are not sure how to fully explain the growing inequality in America.