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Wired 1.02: Crypto Rebels
Amitai Givertz | August 26th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"As the Cold War drifts into deep memory, one might think that the American body charged with keeping our secret codes and breaking the codes of our enemies -- the National Security Agency (NSA) -- might finally breathe easy for the first time in its read more
Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us | Video on TED.c…
Amitai Givertz | August 19th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Talks Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us" read more
You can’t eat Whuffie (but it’s getting harder to eat without…
Amitai Givertz | August 10th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Whuffie has replaced money, providing a motivation for people to do useful and creative things. A person’s Whuffie is a general measurement of his or her overall reputation, and Whuffie is lost and gained according to a person’s favorable or unf read more
Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Netw…
Amitai Givertz | July 19th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Are there systematic differences between people who use social network sites and those who stay away, despite a familiarity with them? Based on data from a survey administered to a diverse group of young adults, this article looks at the predictors read more
Designing for Civil Society: Internet tribes examined ... sociabl…
Amitai Givertz | July 9th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Internet users contributing content can appear to be rather different tribes. There are the independent bloggers who are single voices loosely linked, and the hoards gathering together in forums and chat rooms. Then there are the social networkers u read more
How Entrenched is Old Media Thinking? | The Relationship Economy.…
Amitai Givertz | June 29th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Have They Forgotten Who The Customer Is?News is a business aimed at serving the market. The market is people. If the people are shifting, and the data speaks loudly that they are, to “social media” vs. “top down media” then maybe the old med read more
U.S. Schools: Not That Bad | BusinessWeek
Amitai Givertz | June 28th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Students have 2 million minutes—the time from the beginning of eighth grade to high school graduation—to build the intellectual foundation they'll need for professional success. That's the premise of a new documentary, Two Million Minutes, that' read more
Connecting the Dots: The Cognitive Age: Why Social Media Matters
Amitai Givertz | May 17th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Our economy is down, gas prices are up, jobs are being lost and outsourced, we're at 'war' with possible escalation (e.g., attacking Iran), and there is tremendous uncertainty in nearly every industry being disrupted in some way by the connecting of read more
A Relationship Economy....What Say You?
Amitai Givertz | May 9th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
A "The marketplace is buzzing with the new way of solving problems.Though is hasn’t been posted at Dictionary.com or Webster.com (yet) “Socialutions” is defined as people, communities and organizations leveraging technology to interact with peo read more
The Cognitive Age - New York Times
Amitai Givertz | May 4th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"If you go into a good library, you will find thousands of books on globalization. Some will laud it. Some will warn about its dangers. But they’ll agree that globalization is the chief process driving our age. Our lives are being transformed by th read more
The Naked Corporation - History's Long Wave of Transparency
Amitai Givertz | April 27th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Many of the limits on transparency – from principal-agent problems, to the protection of trade secrets, to the complexity that can overwhelm signals with noise, to the war on openness – are increasing or ineradicable. So why do we claim transpar read more
Contrary imaginations. - By Daniel Engber - Slate Magazine
Amitai Givertz | April 25th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has a name for all those books that aim to refute his popular treatise on atheism: With a nod to Yeats, he calls them 'fleas.' The latest flea at which he deigns to flick his tail is The Devil's Delusion: Athei read more
The Future Will Be A Totalitarian Government Dystopia vs. The Fut…
Amitai Givertz | April 4th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"I am sad to say that for all our efforts in the name of freedom, the future shall be a bleak one, indeed. Such visionary authors as George Orwell and Robert Heinlein have mapped out the hellish future that awaits. By the end of this century, the Ear read more
The Moral Instinct - New York Times
Amitai Givertz | February 2nd 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug? And which do you think is the least admirable? For most people, it’s an easy question. Mother Teresa, famous for ministering to the poo read more
Blog of Collective Intelligence
Amitai Givertz | January 27th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as differentiation and integration, competition and collaboration. read more
Twelve Principles of the Network Economy - Kelly
Amitai Givertz | January 26th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"In a groundbreaking article in Wired (5th September, 1997) Kevin Kelly described the Twelve Principles of the Network Economy. According to Kelly, the emerging new economy represents a tectonic upheaval in our commonwealth, a social shift that reord read more
New Rules for the New Economy
Amitai Givertz | January 26th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"The Digital Revolution gets all the headlines these days. But turning slowly beneath the fast-forward turbulence, steadily driving the gyrating cycles of cool technogadgets and gotta-haves, is a much more profound revolution - the Network Economy.Th read more
How far will the internet information revolution take us?
Amitai Givertz | January 19th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
ChiefTech: The Potential for Enterprise Metaverses
Amitai Givertz | January 19th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"As part of an internal CSC research project I've started working on this year, I found myself revisiting Second Life in the last few days. I'm actually less interested in the social and virtual alter ego aspects of these public 3D virtual worlds - o read more
Techdirt: Web Voyeurism Adds That Human Element To News Stories
Amitai Givertz | January 19th 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"If you've noticed an increasing trend in news stories recently to discuss additional information about someone as found on their online blog or social networking profile, you're not alone. It seems that it's not just the police who will now look for read more
Peter Kropotkin - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution 1902
Amitai Givertz | January 2nd 2008 by Amitai Givertz
"I -- Swarms of Butterflies, Dragon-Flies, Etc.II -- The AntsIII. -- Nesting AssociationsIV -- Sociability of AnimalsV -- Checks to Over-MultiplicationVI -- Adaptations to Avoid CompetitionVII. -- The Origin of the FamilyVIII -- Destruction of Privat read more
The Corporate Form, Limited Liability, and the State - Mises Inst…
Amitai Givertz | December 24th 2007 by Amitai Givertz
"A common complaint of anticorporate libertarians and self-described anarchists is that corporations are creatures of the state. The limited-liability feature of the corporate form, they claim, and the ability of corporations to raise large amounts o read more
What is social capital: basic concepts
Amitai Givertz | December 2nd 2007 by Amitai Givertz
Essential readings of this section include the studies that have introduced the multidimensional concept of social capital in the social sciences debate, influencing great part of the following literature on this topic. Further readings include some read more
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