Imagine that you are a journalist; and that one day you wake up thinking: "It really makes no sense to be a journalist while the things are as they are. It is not clear that journalism can still make money (in a world with abundant free information). And it is not clear that journalism can …
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Is it true that problems such as war, unemployment, poverty, economic and environmental non-sustainability – and a vast amount of injustice that affects you and me and all of us directly – are built into the very mechanism of the global monetary system? This is what the Zeitgeist movement is claiming. "Money must go!" they …
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“In our quest for knowledge, an undertaking as old as the humankind, we have reached the point where we just have to continue through self-organization” is the claim I made at the end of Ode to Self Organization – Part One, and I promised to explain why in Part Two. A motivation for taking up …
“Boldly creating a world that works for all” is the motto of the San Francisco Bay Area Future Salon, where I gave my last lecture before leaving the United States, on May 26th, the evening before my flight back to Norway. "I will invite the Future Salon members to a bit of meta-thinking and meta-design," …
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The invitation flyer for the Dubrovnik workshop and the new Knowledge Federation website having been completed, Act Two of Knowledge Federation development is about to begin. You may think of a knowledge federation as a new way of orchestrating knowledge work, which suits the interactive, networked media technology as astutely as the conventional organization suited the …
What I want to tell you about is self-organization in knowledge work. That will, namely, be the lead theme of the Knowledge Federation 2010 workshop, which I will be facilitating this fall. But before I do that, I would like to say just a few words about how I think a sustainable course of development …
A reader not interested in how to update the academic practice to better serve the society might prefer to skip this entry. Stephen Toulmin (1922-2009) was a philosopher in good standing. Having studied at Cambridge early enough to take classes from Wittgenstein, he went on to develop his own point of view, which enabled him to …
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, the key task that remains for knowledge federation is to begin doing it. My key task then is to bring together a suitable creative mix of people and organizations who will be the first members, co-creators and stake holders in the first federation. Every time I talk to …
With the publication of the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge Federation, Act One of Knowledge Federation development has been completed. We have good reasons to be satisfied: Knowledge federation as an idea and as a way of working together has been designed and profiled. We have developed an embryo of a community. …
Having arrived to the SRI a half hour early, I was sitting in the lobby and reading their 50th anniversary report; an article that attempted to explain why Doug Engelbart failed to receive understanding and support while he worked there early in his career. I met Doug in June 2004 when he gave an invited talk at …
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