es, to complement their very best
reasons for doing so is ONE : Our Network Evolution.
"Every epoch in human history is marked by the appearance of a
seemingly insurmountable collection of crisis, accompanied by a
series of insights and ideas that question the foundation of our
current reality by evidence to the contrary. In other words, when
the nature of inquiry conflicts with the nature of reality, we
collectively experience a paradigm shift. Suddenly, the earth is no
longer flat, the Sun does not fall off the edge of the sky and fire is
no longer a manifest of magic. We are living through ONE of those
times. What is technically possible now questions our fundamental
assumptions about our socioeconomic reality at its very roots.
Questions like: Can our economics and ecology integrate to co-exist
in harmony? Can supply and demand maintain perpetual equilibrium
in real time? Can individual impact be understood on a global scale?
Is intelligence artificial or natural? Are debt and inflation necessary
to create currency? Can we shift from personal acquisition to global
contribution as the default mode of our civilization?"
The answer to all of the above rests on a simple yet universal truth :
Alone, there will never be enough. Together, we have more than
we could ever need.
Ray Podder ONE : Our Network Evolution
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algorithm desert ants use to regulate foraging is like the
Traffic Control Protocol (TCP) [updated with correct spelling] used
to regulate data traffic on the internet.
Both ant and human networks use positive feedback: either from
acknowledgements that trigger the transmission of the next data
packet, or from food-laden returning foragers that trigger the exit
of another outgoing forager.
This research led some to marvel at the ingenuity of ants, able to
invent systems familiar to us: wow, ants have been using internet
algorithms for millions of years!
( WIRED, too, flirted with the concept of “anternet”
in its Jargon Watch column last year.)
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single item were to be chosen to exemplify the TRUTH of this statement - in juxtaposition to the multitude of other proofs, from the pyramids, through aqueducts, to the terracotta army - IT would be the Antikythera... a timepiece/computer mechanism? - an ancient Greek clockwork machine which was found in a shipwreck more than a hundred years ago, by sponge divers at the bottomof the sea near the island of Antikythera - that has taken more than a century to decipher. It astonished the whole international community of experts on the ancient world.
Was it an astrolabe ? Was it an orrery or an astronomical clock ?Or just SOME [THING] ELSE ?
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ing the community submit and select questions for the candidates. If we can reach a few hundred thousand voters on this forum, we believe the candidates will be compelled to answer our top questions.
We want this to be something new. So we've structured things to promote full answers from the candidates. There are no time limits for replies, and we're going to ask you to vote on whether or not the replies were complete answers, "Was that an answer to the question?" not "Did you agree with the answer?" So it will be in the candidates' interest to answer them fully off the bat.
However, this only works if people participate. So IN PREPARATION for the fall of 2012 please, spread the word by sharing this video or emailing your friends about the site
http://www.communitycounts.us
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Added by Michael Grove at 10:06 on December 10, 2010