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Feb 4 2012in Direct Democracy, Essays, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Working Groups by George PórTags: connective intelligence, differentiation, emergence, evolution, integration, sense-making, transformation, working groups
R’evolution is shorthand for the jump time of evolution, when social relations that have been frozen for a long time start thawing and the obsolescence of the dominant social order becomes obvious to the multitudes. It’s a time of unfreeze, a fascinating moment, when what the future can become is up to us, to our [...]
Tags: connective intelligence, differentiation, emergence, evolution, integration, sense-making, transformation, working groups
Dec 9 2011in Big Picture, Commons, Direct Democracy, Essays, FoO Media, Social Innovation by George PórTags: capital, collective capabilities, collective intelligence, complexity, differentiation, emergence, evolution, General Assemblies, globalization, governance, mode of value creation, ruling class, social life form, social organism
— an essay about evolutionary dynamics and the Occupy movement — Part One 1. How life assembled itself The origins of life Where were you and I, and what did we do, 3.5 billion years ago? Most likely, swimming in one of the Earth’s before-life oceans, close to the shoreline, as self-replicating but [...]
Tags: capital, collective capabilities, collective intelligence, complexity, differentiation, emergence, evolution, General Assemblies, globalization, governance, mode of value creation, ruling class, social life form, social organism
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