"Cultural Engineer" and the blog "Civilization Systems" July 24, 2011
Latest post - Leveling The Transaction Landscape: Technology and the Campfire
We can now share our voices, images, information and opinions... just about anywhere in the world; and retrieve the same from others at almost no cost. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) at its roots is about reducing the cost... and broadening the availability... of human transaction.
ICT is really about the future catching up to the past... to a time when we could transact across the world we knew without a need for technical assistance.
More at http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2011/04/leveling-transaction-landscape.html
and and old post called
On Creating Communities (Part 1)
This post is in answer to a request for a piece about my work with Chagora and Civilization Systems for GigaGranadaHills (An excellent local blog for our community). Thanks to L. Williamson for her interest and the invitation
When humans moved from living as Hunter/Gatherers to Organized Agriculture and then on to other forms of economic activity requiring a larger Social Organism* it resulted in some very fundamental changes to the communities in which we and our progenitors had lived for literally millions of years...
*A self-recognized and internally governed economic/political grouping organized for basic survival decisions and actions.
And it engendered some new forms for group decision.
While these new economic activities have brought enormous biological success (in terms of population growth and resource utilization)...
There are still unresolved issues in group decision systems (governance) which have persisted since that first move to agriculture some 10,000 years ago. And these still unresolved issues are now at a critical juncture and badly need to be addressed for the future of us all.
What are these issues? Let me see if I can explain what I see as a root of the problem;
Continued at .http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-creating-communities-part-1.html