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Philosophy
John Lloyd inventories the invisible
via ted.com
A witty, humbling and thought provoking TED talk by John Lloyd. Enjoy.
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Philosophy
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10 Rules That Govern Groups
1. Groups can arise from almost nothing
2. Initiation rites improve group evaluations
3. Groups breed conformity
4. Learn the ropes or be ostracised
5. You become your job
6. Leaders gain trust by conforming
7. Groups can improve performance...
8. ...but people will loaf
9. The grapevine is 80% accurate
10. Groups breed competition
Read more at spring.org.uk
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The Emergence of Next Generation Collective Intelligence
"Collective intelligence applications depend on managing,
understanding, and responding to massive amounts of user-generated
data in real time. The "subsystems" of the emerging internet operating
system are increasingly data subsystems: location, identity (of
people, products, and places), and the skeins of meaning that tie them
together. This leads to new levers of competitive advantage: Data is
the "Intel Inside" of the next generation of computer applications."
"The new direction for the Web, its collision course with the physical
world, opens enormous new possibilities for business, and enormous new
possibilities to make a difference on the world’s most pressing
problems... When we started the Web 2.0 events, we stated that "the
Web is a platform." Since then, thousands of businesses and millions
of lives have been changed by the products and services built on that
platform. But 2009 marks a pivot point in the history of the Web. It’s
time to leverage the true power of the platform we’ve built. The Web
is no longer an industry unto itself – the Web is now the world."
http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/10194
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Management
Philosophy
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Technology and Society
Provocative thoughtful 1998 address by the Neil Postman on Technology
and Society with many relevant considerations for today (via youtube)
http://tr.im/qTZ3
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Reinventing Liberal Arts Education
Liz Coleman's provocative and very important Tedtalk about way more than just reinventing liberal arts education http://tinyurl.com/lspv3x
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Philosophy
Politics
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Self-interest, Altruism and Theories of Behaviour
Yochai Benkler, professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, on The End of Universal Rationality (from Edge.org) http://tinyurl.com/d6bwjd
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Entrepreneurship
Philosophy
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The Philosophy of Technology
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a recent essay on the Philosophy of Technology: http://plato.stanford.edu/e...
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Technology
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