Exponential Times...

[strittmatter]

Dr. Albert Bartlett would be proud...

So what does all this mean?

[jtabeb]

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Dr. Albert Bartlett would be proud...

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So what does all this mean?

It's getting harder to keep the lid on, global conciousness is possible, people can learn for themselves, "the experts" are dead and dying, the big picture matters, the more we found out about each other the more we realize how alike we all are and how many things we agree on, there is a better way of organizing society, compounding interest debt is the root of all evil, the US government sanctions ponzi schemes and uses them just like bernie madoff (pensions and social security), people know things are wrong and that there are solutions to all of these problems that face us but don't see any one person, country or agency that has the ability to fix them.

So we each have to fix them. Small to big from the bottom up. The knowlege and know-how are free, we just need to "free" up the effort to change things.


B.T.W.

He has my vote for best quote of this century:

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

[metalman]

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It's getting harder to keep the lid on, global conciousness is possible, people can learn for themselves, "the experts" are dead and dying, the big picture matters, the more we found out about each other the more we realize how alike we all are and how many things we agree on, there is a better way of organizing society, compounding interest debt is the root of all evil, the US government sanctions ponzi schemes and uses them just like bernie madoff (pensions and social security), people know things are wrong and that there are solutions to all of these problems that face us but don't see any one person, country or agency that has the ability to fix them.

So we each have to fix them. Small to big from the bottom up. The knowlege and know-how are free, we just need to "free" up the effort to change things.

very upbeat assessment and i agree with it!

[Chris Coles]

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This brings me onto familiar ground. The greatest challenge facing us is how to bring the rate of investment up to the exponential speed of the spreading internet. What we have today does not fulfil the requirements of anyone other than a very small group of bankers. We must simplify the mechanism to take savings into capital investment so that every individual with the potential can bring about change in their own way in their own communities. And that was why I started to write my new multi-part thread; The Road Ahead from a Grass Roots Viewpoint. http://www.itulip.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7480

[BiscayneSunrise]

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It means, to use a rather glib phrase, the world is getting flatter. National boundaries become almost meaningless and national governments are becoming marginalized. We are racing towards singularity and some real life version of what the science fiction writers have dreamed of.

And yes, I believe the world will ultimately be a very good place but here's the problem, though. Every time the world transitioned into a new historical epoch there was an extraordinary amount of pain involved as old models were displaced. Two examples, the black death killed half of europe and almost snuffed out western civilization but set the stage for the Renaissance, the age of enlightenment and the Industrial revolution. Similar story in modern China with the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

I've gone beyond telling people we are just in a depression but we are in a modern version of the black plague or the great leap forward.

I'm not saying we are going to see deaths of people like that but we will likely see the massive deaths of old school ideas and institutions. Along those lines, I think the trillions being spent on the stimulus package is a feature of an old school interventionist federal government in its' death throes. As Matt Miller infers in his book, "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas" the entrenched institutions won't go down easily.

[Chris Coles]

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As Matt Miller infers in his book, "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas" the entrenched institutions won't go down easily.

Indeed, we have to instead learn that we can simply walk away from them; they are, in the long term, irrelevant.

[*T*]

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Singularity.

We will soon measure wealth in information rather than money.

[don]

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The final nail in the coffin for the "White Man's Burden" sales pitch.

It's successor, "Bringing Them Democracy", seems to be on an accelerated half life as well in these "Exponential Times".

How you gonna keep them under our heel, now that they've got a cellphone?

(popular tune sung during the central Asian adventure ;))