Archives: Technology
i disrupts the future of work
What does the future of work look like? Recent reports state that many jobs (42% in the USA) will disappear through machine to machine automation, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence. A terrible thing, or, a good thing? Continue reading
July 21, 2015
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Artificial intelligence, Artificial neural network, Calexico, California, Cambridge, Deep learning, digital disruption, Facebook, future of economic growth, iot, KPMG, machine to machine disrupts work, Massachusetts, near term trends of disruption, the future of knowledge work, the future of work, the future of work in the european union
What's next for banking?
I have enjoyed Mosaic Ventures blog on the unbundling of the banks. Their observation that it is not a new bank that we need but a new way of banking. There is in my view an inevitability to the arrival of a new ecosystem, as our world evolves that will serve us even better. But to do so we have to have fundamental redesign of what a businesses looks like. Mostly its design is distributed, networked and peer to peer. Continue reading
July 17, 2015
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Angels Den, banking, banking ethical alternatives, Crowd funding, crowdcube, Design, fintech, funding circle, Investment, London, Mosaic ventures, p2p lending, Seedrs, zopa
NASA shows us our beautifully interconnected planet
Our nonlinear world understands everything is interconnected to everything else. This video is a wonderful demonstration of the interconnectedness of our oceans. We have much to learn from natures design models and understand our own limitations if we believe that organisations or economies work best when they are deconstructed to the point when we can no longer see nor comprehend the whole system. Watch and wonder. Continue reading
November 14, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged designing networked organisations, Lee Smolin, natural capitalism, nonlinear design, nonlinear economies, nonlinear innovation, on beauty, on beauty and organizational design, organisations designed as open systems, perpetual ocean, radical economics, radical redesign business, the interconnected planet, the life and death of nonlinear organisations, the overview effect, the radical redesign of business
Dickson Despommier innovating the vertical farm
This is how Dickson sees our future panning out. By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster? Continue reading
November 12, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Agriculture, arbor house, Black Sea Region, Dickson Despommier, European Union, farming to save the planet, farming tools of innovation, Food and Agriculture Organization, future growing, gotham green, innovation in urban farming, lufa farms, natural capitalism, nonlinear innovation, Palm oil, Price index, restoration of farmland, Rome, rregenerative design model, sustainable urban farming, the failure the traditional farming, the greening of economics, United States, vertical farming
The healthy society and preventative medicine
In recent years, scientific and technological developments have contributed to major progress in the health of individuals and for societies at large. What are the future roads to increased health in the world? How will science, technology and innovation contribute to this development? Where are the major challenges and possibilities? Continue reading
October 16, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged biodiversity+human wellbeing, centre for healthy aging, economic performance+happiness+wellbeing, EuroScience Open Forum 2014 Copenhagen, innovation in health care, lene juel rasmussen, preventative health care, preventative medicine, science and health, technology and the future of health, the future of healthcare, transforming health care, wellbeing and action for happiness
Cradling the transformative economy
As we evolve for a linear model of economy. What we make and how we make it, what we do with our waste and how we waste that too. We start to see a new horizon where our obituary won’t be what we have sent to the landfill but something more elegaic and life affirming – as we become part of the circular economy. It has been described as cradle to cradle. Continue reading
July 9, 2014
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged adoption of sustainable technologies, Business, business benefits of c2c, c2c certification, c2c design, chemicals kind to the environment, Circular economy, cradle to cradle 101, Cradle-to-cradle design, ecology of economy, flute office, ford motor company green+sustainable, green business, Industrial design, innovative business models, Michael Braungart, natural business, nonlinear economy, nonlinear innovation, the access economy, Wikipedia, William McDonough
Myra Goodman on organic food systems as common sense
Myra Goodman runs the largest organic food production company in the USA. In this video she explains why organic farming makes sense. Makes sense, economically, for communities, and of course to help build a regenerative society. She makes the point that nature works at scale – so why cant farming? It is more of how we frame the question and what type of world we choose to live in. Continue reading
June 11, 2014
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged alice holden, Bangladesh, connecting food to people, diy farming, Earthbound Farm, farmers' markets, farming for the community, innovating food economies, Iowa, Myra Goodman, nonlinear innovation, Organic farming, organid ilford, rebecca hosking, Todmorden, United States, Vietnam, yeo valley farms
Odense working on an innovative template for civic centric systems
Place and community as social and economic networks: Last week I was in Odense, a municipality of Denmark, working with a team of people who are knee, elbow, neck deep in system change. My task was to help this team of wonderful people explore how they could address that change as it presents significant challenges in how people embrace transformation, and work meaningfully with it. This team had healthcare as a key concern. So we went on a journey exploring how one can create powerful systems change inside an existing organisation and, at the same time explored innovative practices that can reduce the significant financial burden of healthcare and more importantly change its purpose to one that was more preventative inspired by reinvigorating the sources of health. Continue reading
May 21, 2014
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged A restorative economy, civilizing the economy, cocreation civic innovation, denmark, Ecuador, healthcare innovation, Helene Bækmark, Innovation Lab Denmark, nonlinear innovation, Odense, peer to peer society, Scotland, six steps to transformation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, the open society
Kano: helping make creators of the future not consumers of the past
thought of Lewis Hyde who wrote in The Gift, “we’ve witnessed the steady conversion into private property of the art and ideas that earlier generations thought belonged to their cultural commons”. When reading Miranda Swayers piece on the computing company for kids – Kano. Essentially Kano is plug and play coding making computing and the creation of things via coding and computing accessible to all comers. Hydes observation also resonated, when Alex Klein one of the Kano founders tells a story from an experience from Zuccotti Park when as a journalist he was covering the Occupy Movement, he asked the Occupy-ers why, if they hated big business so much, they all used iPhones and Samsungs. Continue reading
January 5, 2014
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Alex Klein, changing the way we think about computing, coding for beginners, coding in education+why every child schould code, coding innovation, coding literacy, coding the future, creative coding, creativity and coding, diy computing made easy, ethics of craftsmanship, future education+raspberry pi+tinkering+play, future of education, future of learning, Hacker ethic, hacking the future, how to build your own computer, Kano, learning to code made easy, lessons in coding, Lewis Hyde, Life as craftsmanship, maker movement uk, miranda sawyer, No Straight Lines, Occupy Movement, principles of craftsmaship, Rewired State, smlxl, teaching coding, Zuccotti Park
Schaft: humanoid robotics and its implications
Robotics is on the cusp of reshaping our world – in every aspect of our lives, from the waiting rooms of our hospitals to our battlefields, disaster prone world and our everyday lives. For good and for bad. Continue reading
January 2, 2014
Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Boston Dynamics and google, cambridge university robotics, disaster relief robotics, ethical dimensions of technology, future japanese robotics, google robots replace humans, humanoid robotics, japanese robotics, law+technology, nonlinear innovation, robotic warfare, robotics and warfare, robotics implications for healthcare, technology and culture, technology and human behaviour, technology society and historical change
The restorative economy
Need to rewrite the foundations of economics: The need for a root and branch rewriting of economics produced a book last year called What’s the Use of Economics? Teaching the Dismal Science after the Crisis. Of course it is much much harder than anyone realises to bring into the world a truly viable alternative economy to an existing dominant model. There are many vested interests, and shifts of power that create vacuums’ generate the necessary conditions where waves of multiple dissonance; social, religious, economic combine to make people fearful of change and reactive to perceived threats real or otherwise. Opportunism trying to outflank those that seek a more ambitious goal. Continue reading
December 30, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, closed loop economics, crafting a new economy, david simon two americas, economic philosophy, economics of nature, economy of the commons, embracing a complex world, john fullerton the capital institute, lessons open commons region, natural capitalism, networked economic theory, new thinking in economic philosophy, new tools for a new economy, nonlinear innovation, open science commons, rise of foodbanks uk economy, systems thinking in economics, teaching the new economics, the carbon neutral economy, the dismal science, the open economy, the p2p economy, the Post-Crash Economics Society, the resilient economy, the shareable economy, what's the use of economics
Time to reimagine and recreate our state says Marianna Mazzucato
“The important thing for government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.” was the advice of John Maynard Keynes. Continue reading
December 15, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, civic innovation, designign for the humanos, east coast train-operating franchise, economy as a system, economy of the commons, eddy izzard for mayor, entrepreneurship the future of the eu, failure privatisation public sector uk, financing the innovative state, how to make britain great, Marianna Mazzucato, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, nuclear economics uk, private equity investment tax breaks, privatising public goods uk, problem with big government, reinventing medicine, reinventing regional government, reinventing the state, religion+identity+spirituality+john stuart mill+charles handy+the hungry spirit, resilient economies, startup britain, startup uk, the furture of britain, UK government subsidises privatised utilities, uk tax expenditures, US National Institutes of Health
Lego's new business model: Pleygo
LEGO has always fascinated me, because of its journey from small to great to almost has been to a company designed for meeting the demands and challenges of a non-linear world. LEGO is launching LEGO The Movie next year and they have also been exploring the idea of building a service / rental style model called Pleygo is like a Netlix-like rental service that allows families to swap Lego sets instead of purchasing new ones and creating more plastic waste in the process. The Lego swap service enables kids to try out and play with lots of different sets. Continue reading
December 12, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged adaptive business models, Alan Moore, business as a service, business as a service+business as a platform, designing the smart organization, history business model innovation, Lego business model innovation, Lego Pleygo business model, Lego the movie, lesson in business model innovation, new tools for a new economy, No Straight Lines, non-linear innovation, resilient business models, Transformation Labs, transformation workshops, what's next for business
High performance organizations through respect for people
Openness is resilience, leadership with purpose: Whereas one can see what happens when people exist in an open culture, which is led by purpose rather than a kpi. Two very different stories spring to mind, [1] the organisational systems change that was delivered through a process of participatory leadership in Nova Scotia for public health, [2] in Japan with Toyota. If you start to think about designing for whole systems with real human beings operating in those systems – I believe we see a very different organisational design emerge. Continue reading
November 17, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, art of hosting scotland, designing for humanity, designing healthcare systems, designing high performance organizations, future healthcare, future manufactuing, higher performing organizations, innovation nova scotia healthcare, innovation people power, innovation systems thinking, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, north staffordshire hospital system failure, Open innovation, Otto Scharmer, radical redesign business, the greatest asset of an organization, theory u, transforming peoples lives
Russ Ackoff, a system is a hole with a W
a talk by Russ Ackoff – which is both funny and profound. His quote that a system is a (w)hole, spelt with a W was fantastic – his insight that a system is not a sum of its parts but a sum if the interactions that take place – genius for its clarity. He made the point that to understand this concept write a note with your writing hand, then cut it off and see what happens. He is known as the father of systems thinking. Continue reading
October 31, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Business, Clare Crawford-Mason, constraints of design, Continual improvement process, Deming, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, effectiveness vs efficiency, John Seddon, Lloyd Dobyns, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, quality as effectiveness, quality of life, stafford beer, systems design, Systems thinking, the vanguard method, toyota way, true knowledge exists in a network, w edwards deming
Flute Office business, design and manufacturing innovation
Flute Office is a pioneering company that is producing an entire suite of products along with a ground breaking business model to change the way we think about what we sit on, what we work on, what perhaps we do other things on (Do its all verb). Continue reading
October 14, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Andy wood+adnams, Business model innovation, cradle to cradle, customer centric design, design thinking, future of furniture, future of the office, future of work, green business, human centered design, Hunter Lovins, innovative business models, iterate+design principle, Lean manufacturing, Local Motors, manufacturing innovation, mary dorrington ward, natural capitalism, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, renewable fibres, resilient design, rod fountain, service design, systems design, Systems thinking, Work
Lessons in craftsmanship: Tashi Mannox - Tibetan Calligrapher
Tashi Mannox Tibetan Calligrapher, says, it is commitment that gives you freedom, which reminds me of the truth that, the committed craftsman is the engaged craftsman. And that craftsman is always curious and happy to share the work and their knowledge. Continue reading
October 13, 2013
Craftsmanship / Openness / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Beijing, Buddhism, craft+ethics, crafted life, craftsmanship, Dalai Lama, design thinking, hand heart mind, Local Motors, Mike Friton, Nicholas DiChiara, No Straight Lines, poetry of craft, principles of craftsmaship, Seamus Heaney, Systems thinking, ten steps to being a better craftsman, the craftsman+innovation, Tibet, Tibetan, Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan culture, ushahidi
To the people that 'build stuff'
What makes work meaningful? Why do we go to work? Why should we work? For whom do we work? Is work about meaning and identity more than money? Should our work be meaningful? What fulfills us and what gets us out of bed on a Monday morning? It does not matter whether you are a coder, or a metal fabricator like Nicholas DiChiara, work is something that in my mind has always been about purpose and passion. Continue reading
September 25, 2013
Craftsmanship / Openness / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, American Craftsman, coherent systems of meaning, Craftsman, designing the smart organisation, ethics of craftsmanship, granfors bruks, happiness+work+meaning+identity, human identity+society, identity as a journey, innovation workshop, life of craftsmanship, Master craftsman, modern culture bankruptcy of meaning, moral identity, Nicholas DiChiara, No Straight Lines, principles of craftsmanship, purpose and the organization, purpose and work, Richard Sennett, six principles no straight lines, ten steps to being a better craftsman, the crafted organization, The Meaning of Educational Quality
Alice in wonga land, how payday loans make a profit
Payday loan company WONGA reported £1m profit per week for 2012. Charging 5500% APR on each of its 1m loans last year it’s now the biggest payday lender in the UK. It’s not alone with many other payday firms reporting increases in turnover and profits over the last 3 years. Errol Damelin the CEO of WONGA states that he hardly thinks a £200 loans get people into trouble. He’s right, cry the campaigners, it’s the thousands of per cent interest you charge on it, so lets cap it. Actually he’s right and the campaigners are wrong, on both counts. Continue reading
September 21, 2013
Tagged alice in wongaland, banking, business ethics, Certified Public Accountant, christian law on lending, Civil society, CPA, credit uniions, Errol Damelin, Ethics, fair finance, getting rid of payday loan debt, islamic law on lending, Maria Nowak, moral capitalism, No Straight Lines, open democracy+civil society+ethics, pay day loan victims, Payday loan, payday loans online, Payment, social innovation in finance, the idea of social justice, the joyless economy, things you should know before you take a payday loan, why do we need pay day loans?, Wonga
Contract law for SME's in Plain English
For the last few months I have been working with, and, advising a company called Lawbite. My reason for engaging with the company is that they are offering a viable alternative to legal advice for SME’s and start ups which is sorely needed. It is disruptive to the existing legal profession, but that is no bad thing. Lawbite is well overdue. Britain is sustained by SME’s yet their need of the law and the service they get from the law is not always evenly matched. Continue reading
September 18, 2013
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, angel investing, business ethics, Clive Rich, Confidentiality agreements, Contract, contract law for sme's, creativity impeded by copyright law, e-signing, employee law, english copyright law, eu copyright law, federation of small business, google campus, google+patents+copyright+mobile+data, Law, Law firm, law for start ups, law music, law+technology, Lawbite, lawbriefs, Lawyer, Legal advice, legal advice for sme's, lessons in law, metro bank, mums net, No Straight Lines, Plain English, property law, Pros and cons of using solicitors, shareholder agreements, shareholder law, start up britain, tech city, ten things i hate about lawyers, top 10 tips for negotiation, top tips for start ups, trade mark applications, trade marks, understanding the Law for SME's, virtual law firm, women in business, women in law
The lean green business system
The authors argue that things that are good for the planet are also good for business. Studies from the the Economist Intelligence Unit, Harvard, MIT Sloan, and others indicate that organizations that commit to goals of zero waste, zero harmful emissions, and zero use of nonrenewable resources clearly outperform their competition. Continue reading
September 15, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Adnams Brewery, Alan Moore, bio engineering, Business model innovation, design thinking, designing for the collective good, designing resilient food systems, Economist Intelligence Unit, environmental management, green business, green economy, green engineering, holistic design, Hunter Lovins, John Seddon, Kanban, Lean manufacturing, Manufacturing, natural capitalism, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, organizational design, quality of life, radical redesign business, systems design, theory of constraints, Toyota, toyota global vision, toyota way, United States, value based systems
Love your work
Below is a beautiful simple film about the craft of making sake. Why did I think it to be relevant? Because the ‘engaged’ craftsman brings the full power of humanity to bear upon his work. His hand is guided by his eye, informed by his creative mind; his productivity the act of unique creation. Indeed, the master craftsman is adept in using a values based philosophical framework, as well as tools and materials, to deliver useful things to the world. Continue reading
September 11, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, antonio genovesi+mark granovetter+guilds, beauty, collective craftsmanship, common good, craft+beauty, craft+craftmanship+meaning+work+identity+hand+heart+mind+open+explore+curious+makie labs+practice+play, craftsmanship+innovation, design thinking, ethics of craftsmanship, future of work, gransfors bruks, How to create an innovative and sustainable company, Japan, key words of craftsmanship, Life as craftsmanship, Local Motors, maker movement, making sake, Master craftsman, No Straight Lines, organisational design, principles of craftsmanship, richard sennet, Seamus Heaney, the crafted organization, the smart organisation, values based system
Openness the new model for society
It has been said that privacy is dead. Not so. It’s secrecy that is dying. Openness will kill it. Writes Jeff Jarvis, he goes on, Openness is the more powerful weapon. Openness is the principle that guides, for example, Guardian journalism. Openness is all that can restore trust in government and technology companies. And openness – in standards, governance, and ethics – must be the basis of technologists’ efforts to take back the the net. That said its not just about the net, its about the future direction of our societies, what does an open society looks like? Continue reading
September 7, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, bruce schneier, Charles Handy, christopher soghoian, Creative Commons, dan auerbach, designing for transformation, electronic frontier foundation, Elinor Ostrom, eva galperin, exploitation of common internet encryption technologies, future business, future democracy, future of society, jeff jarvis, journal social issues, karl popper, leadership, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, nonlinear thinking, open academic journals, open book, open business models, open civic society, open commons, Open Data, open democracy, open economics, open education, open enterprise, open genome, open government, open health+open data+open data records, Open innovation, open journalism, open manufacturing, open media, open organisation, open science, Open Society Foundations, open society institute, open society+architecture, open source movement, open source+open access, open systems, open to new ideas, open will, openness, organizational design, p2p society, Systems thinking, the commons, the open society, theory u, Tony Judt
Lone Frank asks big questions around data and genetics
Since genetic information does not determine you, it does not in itself tell you anything really important. It won’t be very important to not have your genetic information in the public domain. It won’t seem very important to people to keep it private. Our sense of privacy is evolving; our pictures, out personal data our views of what needs to be kept private change. So why would our genetic data be different? Continue reading
September 6, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged BigData, biology, consumer genetics, crafting resilient healthcare, data policy+future data policy+future IT policy, deCODEme, designing a lightweight healthcare system, disease risk, Eukaryotic, future genetics, future health, genetic data, Genetics, Genome, genomics+big data, health innovation, health monitoring, Human Genome Project, medicare, My Beautiful Genome, Navigenics, No Straight Lines, Nucleic acid sequence, open health+open data+open data records, personal data, personal identity+modern selfhood, Personally identifiable information, preventative health care, psychology+community+mental health+communication, Public domain
If data is the new oil where are its wells?
John Naughton in his recent column for The Observer, wrote that in 2006 or thereabouts, a phrase that data was new the oil came into public consciousness. At the time I was sitting on the board of a company specialising in large scale social data analytics (in those days mobile networks were large scale social networks), And I liked to use the term raw data has no value but refined data is the black gold of the 21st Century. Continue reading
September 5, 2013
Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Bradley Manning, cloud providers working with big data, cyber security, data, data analytics, data fear, data policy+future data policy+future IT policy, data the individual and the state, data+society, edward snowden, future social media, IBM, john naughton, Manuel Castells, meaning and data, monitory democracy, national security agency, No Straight Lines, open democracy+civil society+ethics, open health+open data+open data records, Slavoj Žižek, the open society, United States, wikileaks
The overview effect and a pioneering spirit
Our nonlinear world is about connectedness, our connectedness to each other and in fact to a wider universe. Something I explore in No Straight Lines. I am deeply interested in our humanity and the human spirit. I am interested in humanities capacity for a higher yearning, which inspires us to work towards a greater good. Our pioneering spirit today should be more about the quality of life, and better governance of this planet. When we see the world as a deeper system, we see the world differently as this moving film explains. Continue reading
August 30, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, blue marble, coherent systems of meaning, culture+meaning+identity, design for humanity, Earth, frank white, interconnectedness of life, meta-level systems thinking, modern society frameworks of meaning, No Straight Lines, nonlinear innovation, open systems, overview effect, sharing meaning in a networked world, smlxl, space exploration, Systems thinking, transformational experience
True knowledge exists in a network
Lee Smolin describes our universe at an atomic level as curved, open, diverse and highly networked, Manuel Castells describes our society as evolving into a networked one which as significant cultural and political implications, Janine Benyus talks about nature as a highly networked open, diverse eco-system from which we as humans have much to learn revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world. Continue reading
August 26, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature, designing for transformation, designing resilient food systems, firm of the future, holistic design, human centered design, Janine Benyus, knowledge, Lee Smolin, living systems, Manuel Castell, multi-disciplinary design, natural ecosystems, Network Society, networks and disruption of traditional organization, networks as power, Open system (systems theory), open systems design, organizational design, power of networks, systems based design, systems vision of the world
A handcrafted particle accelerator
Patrick Stevenson Keating created a handcrafted glass particle accelerator in what I would describe as an act of true craftsmanship. The piece consists of a series of organically-shaped hand-blown glass bulbs – each attached to a pump via a tube to create a vacuum. When the button is pushed, a voltage of 45,000V is applied across two electrodes. Continue reading
August 22, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Anatoli Bugorski, Doctor of Philosophy, Glass, hacking culture, hacking the future, hacktivism, hand made, Institute for High Energy Physics, Joule, maker movement, No Straight Lines, non-linear innovation, open hardware, open science, open source+open access, participatory cultures, Particle accelerator, Proton beam, Protvino, science commons, systems hacking, visible light
Smart meters, data, cyber security
John Naughton raises an interesting point about the proposed installation of data monitoring smart meters in 26 millions homes and its security implications in his Observer column. Continue reading
August 18, 2013
Ambiguity / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Big data, control data institute, cyber security, cyber war, dark data, data fear, data policy+future data policy+future IT policy, data the individual and the state, data+democracy, data+society, digital warfare, g4s, Gas meter, homeland security, john naughton, Kim Jong-un, meta data, Middle East, mobile data security, No Straight Lines, Public utility, Ross J. Anderson, Russia, Smart meter, smart metering, Wireless Data
Monitor me, data, health and technology
This Horizon documentary called ‘Monitor Me’, is an intriguing journey into what the future of medicine may look like, with blends of cutting edge medicine, technology and data that monitors all and everything, we can imagine entirely different ways in which we can manage our daily health like weight to high performance sport to discovering at its very earliest stages serious medical problems. Continue reading
August 17, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Alternative, bbc, better sleep, Brittany Wenger, brittnay wenger, design thinking, digital health apps, england rubgy elite performance, Eric Topol, Fong, future cancer, future healthcare, future medicine, Ginger.io, Health, health apps, health innovation, health monitoring, health+data, healthcare, heart monitoring, Innovation, Kevin Fong, Larry Smarr, london air ambulance, mhealth, mobile health, No Straight Lines, Patients Know Best, preventative health care, self tracking transforming health, top 10 health apps, United States, wearable technology, weight loss
Humanness of network knowledge
when we see things really scale up on the net, as we do with Wikipedia or some of the large collaborative projects like Linux and Debian and the like, the decision making changes, and rather than thinking, oh, we’ll find one person who’s smart enough to make decisions, no, we have a network, let’s do this in a networked way. And what are networks good at? Well, if a decision can be kept local, the person who knows most about the thing is the person who is dealing with it every day, the local decision. Continue reading
August 11, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, co-creation, compexity, Corporation, crowdfund, crowdfunding, Debian, Decision making, Hacking, harvesting natural systems, kevin kelly, leadership, Linux, natural systems, No Straight Lines, participatory cultures, participatory tools, systemns design, Systems thinking, the biology of machines, ushahidi, values based organization, Wikipedia
Rupert Sheldrake and the dogmas of scientific materialism
TED banned this talk, I wonder what was so controversial? Of particular interest to me was the idea of variations in light-speed and gravity the big G. Sheldrake goes onto talk about the big idea that the laws of nature at an atomic level are never set, are not constant as Newton proposed but are in a permanent state of evolution. Continue reading
August 5, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Education / Openness / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Alternative, cern, Collapse: How societies choose to fail or survive, elementary particles, general relativity, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Graham Hancock, Gravitation, laws of nature, Lee Smolin, light-speed, natures laws, networked identity, networks and disruption of traditional organization, Newton, No Straight Lines, open to new ideas, Phenomenology of Perception, Physics, quantum mechanics, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, rupert sheldrake, smlxl, Speed of light, Ted, the atlantic, The Network Society, the process of evolution, time reborn, variations in light speed
6 steps to transform the way we do business
Published in The Guardian Sustainable Business. Our institutions, organisations and economies were conceived, designed and built for a simpler more linear world. Overwhelmed by complexity, these have become disrupted and unsustainable. There is an urgent need to transform our societies, organisations and economies by better design to thrive in what I call a “non-linear world”. Continue reading
August 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged 1010, Alan Moore, Business, Business model innovation, business models, Design, designing for transformation, dynamic adaptive systems, Earth, Economic model, economic systems thinking, enterprise open innovation, firm of the future, Guardian, Math, No Straight Lines, Nonlinear system, Open innovation, Organization, participatory cultures, participatory tools, Systems thinking
Edward Snowden and the battle for internet freedom
Who would have thought even in 2005, that consumer politics and societal politics would revolve around data, who has it, who owns it and how it is used, combined with the legal frameworks that protect us as citizens. our destiny with data is complex. There are legitimate concerns about who actually owns this information, and when our identities can be pieced together via data flows, privacy becomes a key battleground. And there will be a pressing and increasing need to respect the sovereignty of the individual whether that be in a commercial or civil context. Continue reading
July 29, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, Apple, booz hamilton allen, center for digital democracy, cloud security, cyber-surveillance system, data, data security, Democracy, digital democracy, edward snowden, Facebook, gchq, Google, national security agency, No Straight Lines, smlxl
Doug Englebart and what world he was trying to create
In No Straight Lines, technology plays an important role, it must do. Because to deny our umbilical relationship with technology is to deny ourselves. But it always seems a struggle to get people to reconcile the important philosophical, anthropological and societal relationships to technology that we indeed have – where it comes from, what drives our longing (on a large scale) which consequently affects what we imagine, create and make. Doug Englebart died recently, Continue reading
July 16, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Bill Bailey, Bret Victor, collective intelligence, design literacy, Douglas Engelbart, Engelbart, Hacker ethic, hacking the future, Hypertext, Innovation, No Straight Lines, philosophy of innovation, smlxl, Straight Lines, Technology
Are we naked with or without data? Edward Snowden asks a big question
As the shape of our world evolves, we are also in political transformation, both in terms of the political relationship between the individual and commercial organisations and the large Politics of how we organise and run our societies. What should government look like in a non-linear world? Are we creating and running the right systems in the right way? How does data change/impact the process of democracy and civil organisation? Continue reading
July 10, 2013
Tagged Alan Moore, Big data, Brickstarter, Creative Commons, data analytics, data mining, data protection act+uk, data the black gold of the 21st century, data+democracy, edward snowden, future data, meta data, national security agency, New York City, News of the World, No Straight Lines, Open Data, Ordnance Survey, policing+crime+data, Politics, Prism, rupert murdoch, San Francisco, smlxl, social network analytics
How big data can help better understand social risks and opportunities
‘Black Swans turn Grey’: The risk landscape is undoubtedly shifting. PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers), invoking Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s recent book, posit that ‘Black Swans’ are increasingly ‘turning grey’. By this, they mean that previously catalytic and unforeseen events are becoming more regular; betraying an increased level of uncertainty faced by the global community in the face of growing connectivity and dependency. Continue reading
June 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Amnesty International, arab spring, BigData, Black Swan, crisis mananagement, enterprise risk management, No Straight Lines, non-linear thinking, political risk, predictive analytics, risk analysis, risk management, social data, social dynamics, social network theory, social networks, World Bank
Old World New World, connections, networks, pathways
Pilgrim paths, green roads, drove roads, corpse roads, trods, leys, dykes. drongs, sarns, snickets, holloways, bostles, shutes, driftways, lichways, ridings, halterpaths, cartways, carneys, causeways, herepaths. In Holland there are doodwegen and spookwegen – death roads and ghost roads. In Spain … Continue reading
May 30, 2013
Adaptiveness / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Big data, camino, communication based theory, communications media+political expression, disruption of the industrial age by networked world, global governance and the networked world, networked world, networks, No Straight Lines, richard long, sense making, sharing meaning in a networked world
No Straight Lines keynote @PINC
Alan Moore keynote at PINC: Today’s and tomorrow’s executives and leaders face a complex design challenge, in transforming existing organisations and economies from a linear to a non-linear economy. Executives and leaders must be able to thrive in a world of constant change and be able to create and lead agile organisations that deliver higher performance with lower input costs. No Straight Lines has six framing principles that teach the philosophy and practice of how to design organisations and economic models for a non-linear world. Continue reading
May 19, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, antifragile, business innovation, civil society and cultural power, communications innovation, design thinking, designing for humanity, designing organizational platforms, Financial Capital, freedom lab, healthcare innovation, keynote, leadership, LEGO CUUSOO, Local Motors, mobile commerce, networked society, No Straight Lines, Nonlinear system, Open Society, p2p economics, p2p society, participatory leadership, Patients Know Best, Social justice, technological revolution and financial capital, think tank, transformation lab, Worldreader.org, yeo valley farms
What does the imprisonment of Andrew Auernheimer tell us?
No matter what the outcome, I will not be broken. I am antifragile, tweeted Andrew Auernheimer before he was wrestled to the floor in a US courtroom and received 41 months for hacking into the the database of AT&T and redistributing that information into the public domain. Continue reading
May 6, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged aaron swartz, Alan Moore, at&t, Civil society, communication power, communities dominate brands, Democracy, Ethics, No Straight Lines, Social justice, the digital self, the networked society
Society, organisations, economies reshaped by mobile communications and big data
A few weeks ago I was in Miami, at the invitation of Blackberry giving the opening keynote based on the No Straight Lines project on how mobile technologies are reshaping and transforming our world. From the living breathing communications eco-system that is wrapping itself around the earth, to… Continue reading
May 5, 2013
Adaptiveness / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, augmented reality, bemobile 2013, Big data, BlackBerry, blended reality, chronic healthcare, chronic healthcare+innovation, cloud computing, collective intelligence, crisis maangement, data security, driverless cars, google glass, healthcare, m2m, machine to machine, mit media lab, mobile technologies, networked society, No Straight Lines, p2p society, Patients Know Best, pin wheel, rio de janerio, ropits, smart cities, ushahidi, world reader, Worldreader.org
una breve introducción sin líneas rectas
En una sociedad mediática, las unidades básicas son las grandes “masas” colectivas. La sociedad red, sin embargo, está formada por individuos que establecen conexiones voluntarias con otros individuos, sea cual sea su ubicación. En una sociedad red, la red se convierte en la unidad básica de organización a todos los niveles (individuos, grupos u organizaciones). Las redes sociales virtuales, las redes de medios de comunicación y las redes tecnológicas actúan como catalizadores de la sociedad red. Continue reading
April 22, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged ¿qué sigue para América Latina, Alan Moore, ciudades inteligentes, comunidad, culturas participativas, de igual a igual la sociedad, economía, economía verde, educación futura, empresa como comunidad, futuros negocios, grandes volúmenes de datos, identidad, medios de comunicación, móvil, natural para los negocios, no lineal, No Straight Lines, organización narrativa, pensamiento de diseño, pensamiento sistémico, red economía, sin líneas rectas, tecnologia
Complexity, simplexity, self-assembly
The No Straight Lines challenge: be realistic imagine the impossible, then create it. The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT is a cross-disciplinary research lab Continue reading
April 8, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged 4d printing, Alan Moore, Built environment, cross-disciplinary, dynamic assembly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, No Straight Lines, Printing, red lab, Self-assembly, Self-Assembly Lab, Skylar Tibbits, Vimeo
Big data and the sentient world
Chapter 5 of No Straight Lines addresses this emerging issue of data. The reason is that the fastest data set revolution is being created by you, every time we text search travel buy we add to the data mountain some 2.5 billion gigabytes a day we, that’s all of humanity are collectively writing a new consciousness into existence. In fact the architecture of our own brain suggests the future of sentience may reside in a different kind of BIG. The question is how do we make meaning out of this data? How can data help us meet the challenges in our daily lives, challenges for our cities, for our changing climate, the ever increasing demand to better manage the resources we have? Continue reading
April 7, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, BigData, cloud computing, cloud providers working with big data, control data institute, crowd aid exchange, data analytics, data architectures+social interaction, data meaning, data mining, data networks, data+democracy, data+health, data+marketing, data+prediction, data+society, Databases, designing with data, Environment, foursquare+girlswalker+sony+softbank+data+geo location+matrix+mixi+social networking+mobile business+mpesa, future data, Google, gps receivers, Hal Varian, Hurricane Katrina, location based data, machine to machine, meaning and data, No Straight Lines, Open Data, open regions+data, p2p+data, peer to peer networks, policing+crime+data, predicting crime, rio smart city, sentient world, smart cities, United States, unstructured data, wellness
The UK's social and economic design challenge
A design challenge of epic proportions: a number of conversations this week that has resulted in this post. One was related to four cities in the north of England and their urgent need to rethink and rebuild their local economies, with wellness as the heartbeat of a resilient economy. Then a conversation in my home town of Cambridge which explored the challenges that counties and regions around the UK now face as the UK divests itself of the structures that we call The State that provides services to society. It is a challenge because there will be a cumulative short fall in revenues over the next 5 years with nothing to replace it. Once we have divested these infrastructures there is no going back. Continue reading
April 6, 2013
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Arnold Heertje, collective intelligence, corazon aquino+people power movement, design for transformation, design thinking, designing for humanity, England, future civic society, Human, human os, human technologies, humanos, M. Scott Peck, No Straight Lines, open regions, p2p society, Participatory culture, people power, smlxl, Systems thinking, transformation lab
Arnold Heertje humanizing the economy
Arnold Heertje is an economist, author and a provocative voice in the Dutch public debate. His analyses of the current situation regarding the economic crisis and the symptom it is according to him of a larger social paradigmatic shift. Heertje argues that we have lived in a quantitative and dehumanizing economic paradigm which has alienated human beings from their labour and social being. This crisis is the implosion of that model and should be used to initiate the shift towards the new paradigm, which has in his mind everything to do with sustainability and a return to human proportions. Continue reading
April 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Arnold Heertje, Barack Obama, Big data, Crowd funding, designing for the human-os, Economic model, enterprising futures, future healthcare, human os, human proprtions, moral economy, New Economic Model, No Straight Lines, Obama, Paradigm, participatory cultures, participatory tools, Rahm Emanuel, schumacher college, smart cities, the ethical company, the future of education
Ethan Zuckerman on civic media and network power
Ethan Zuckerman exploring and unpacking how participatory media helped unfold the Arab Spring. His belief is that that media production changes agency for people on the ground to effect political and social change. Continue reading
March 26, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, arab spring, blogs of dissent, civic engagement in a networked society, civic participation+community media, civic society+repression, Civics, communities dominate brands, Daily Mail, Ethan Zuckerman, Henry Jenkins, Iran, media ecology, mit media lab, networked power, networked society, No Straight Lines, Participatory culture, participatory media, Sub-Saharan Africa, YouTube
People powered uprisings and participatory media
Why is it Zeynep Tufekci asks that when power does such terrible things to a people, a country directed from above that the collective find it so hard to challenge this authoritarian power. It is a story that is explored in No Straight Lines Continue reading
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged al-jazeera, arab spring, Collective action, Communication, Egypt, Facebook, future democracy, Gafsa, Henry Jenkins, networked protest, No Straight Lines, participatory cultures, participatory media, protest, Social network, Tunisia, Zeynep Tufekci
Innovating in crisis management with p2p and technology
Climate scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have reported that extreme weather will become the new normal. Few countries are prepared for multiple disasters. Does the world need a new humanitarian international project that matches the $150 billion international space station in scope and ambition? A key goal would be to ensure that everyone has access to a mobile phone or data signal during a disaster. Continue reading
March 22, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged 2010 Haiti earthquake, Alan Moore, American Red Cross, Big data, disaster innovation, distributed intelligence, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, impact of mobility, Innovation, intergovernmental panel on climate change, Mobile phone, No Straight Lines, Non-governmental organization, Patrick Meier, planetary weather, Qatar foundation, smlxl, ushahidi
Democratising legal documents for SME's
LawBit is an online legal service which provides “simple contracts for small companies”. Lawbit are operating a 10 day trial and are looking for SME’s to join in a small revolution. Continue reading
March 19, 2013
Adaptiveness / Openness / Technology
Tagged 10 things i hate about lawyers, chamber of commerce, contract law, Dispute resolution, fair law, helping sme's, Law, law 2.0, lawbit, Legal advice, legal advice for sme's, legal documemts, legal documents, Legal instrument, legal services, No Straight Lines, putting clients first, Service Providers, Services, uk business, United States, virtual law firm
Urban forests in the sky of Milan
The Bosco Verticale ‘eco-skyscrapers’ in Milan are described as urban forests in the sky, and will house as many trees as people. 50%+ of the world s population now live in cities so HOW DO WE bring the urban environment and nature closer together? Stefano Boeri Architects have been exploring the HOW. Continue reading
March 14, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Bosco Verticale, desiging with nature, eco-architecture, Energy, Innovation, inspired by nature, Milan, No Straight Lines, non-linear design, non-linear thnking, Stefano Boeri, Stefano Boeri Architects, Tower block, transformation, transition, upgrade, Urban area, Urban forest, vertical gardening
Crowd aid exchange, peer to peer crisis innovation
Last week I popped into the Humanitarian Centre in Cambridge part of the Cambridge University to meet Richard Dent who is working on what I think is an exciting and important project. Being part of the advisory board at Ushahidi, I was very interested in what Richard was up to. Ushahidi is a case study in No Straight Lines. Continue reading
February 26, 2013
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Cambridge University, complexity, crisis alert system, crisis management, data, extreme weather events, Haiti, Humanitarian Centre, Hurricane Katrina, mapping crisis, mashup, new zealand earthquake, No Straight Lines, Non-governmental organization, open api, Open Data, Richard Dent, scale and complexity of society, schumacher college, Technology, ushahidi
Lessig on Aaron's Law, the law and justice in a non-linear world
Lawrence Lessig, inaugral lecture gives his perspectives on the Aaron Swartz, and where we go from here. Continue reading
February 24, 2013
Education / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, cory doctorow+open book, Creative Commons, digital free speech, future copyright law, future education, Lawrence Lessig, No Straight Lines, open democracy, open innovation+open region+open commons+open data+open society+p2p society+open api's+, open science, open society institute, open source+open access, p2p, sharing economy, Sharing+Openness+Decentralization+Free access to computers+World Improvement, the open society
Achuar community speaks truth to power in the Amazon
Gregor MacLennan works for an Amazonwatch an organisation that campaigns for the rights and lives of indigenous tribes living in the Amazon rainforest in Peru.
MacLennan explains that huge tracts of the Amazon have been sold to international companies for mineral extraction. Those companies come and extract the minerals but they leave a lot behind: pollution on an unprecedented scale, deforestation, the undoable disruption of the communities that live there. Continue reading
February 21, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Achuar people, Alan Moore, amazon, Amazon rainforest, Amazonwatch, chevron, exxonn, Indigenous People, Indigenous tribes, Lima, mineral extraction, mining companies, mobile communications, No Straight Lines, oil spills, Peru, power+information technology, talisman energy
The Gestalt Switch to the Human-OS
In The Life and Death of Democracy, John Keane points out that when democracy takes hold of people’s lives, it gives them a glimpse of the contingency of things. They are, he says: ‘injected with the feeling that the world can be other than it is – that situations can be countered, outcomes altered, people’s lives changed through individual and collective action.’ Do people feel this today? Democracy, says Keane, ‘thrives on humility and a shared sense of equality among citizens needs to be visceral’. Continue reading
February 17, 2013
Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Amartya Sen, arab spring, Benjamin Barber, consumer politics, consumer society, Democracy, democracy 2.0, George W. Bush, J. G. Ballard, life and death of democracy, Lizabeth Cohen, No Straight Lines, one nation, open democracy, open democracy+civil society+ethics, political economy, pussy riot, SOCAP, social capital, the joyless economy+tibor scitovsky, Tibor Scitovsky, twitter+democracy, twitter+protest, United States, ushahidi
Banking on the sun, a community investing in sustainable energy
Banking on the Sun is perhaps one of the finest lines I have read recently, which I found tucked away in the Mercury News – which is not a planet. So ‘Oakland Solar financing startup Mosaic crowd sources installations’ is the headline – for $25 one can become part of a ‘community’ Continue reading
February 8, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, community, design thinking, Energy, No Straight Lines, oakland, open innovation+open region+open commons+open data+open society+p2p society+open api's+, p2p society, solar energy, solar power+smart grids, sustainable futures
Competing to innovate in the open society
An aspect of open collaboration literacy which may seem counter intuitive is that of competition. Competitions can attract people passionate about solving real world problems; these need to be open access attracting a true divergence of knowledge, and have a fine pedigree. The Longitude Prize was an act of Parliament (the Longitude Act) of the United Kingdom passed in July 1714 during the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board of Longitude and offered a monetary reward for anyone who could find a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. Continue reading
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Board of Longitude, company of the future, Competition, enterprise open innovation, firm of the future, Innovation, innovation performance, innovation platforms, Longitude Prize, NASA, No Straight Lines, Open Society, radical redesign business, Space, stsyems thinking, Technology, technology strategy board, TopCoder
Necessity hath no law
When people feel powerless, their style of reaction takes us back to a different age and a different time. Visceral protest. These reactions are representative of, I would argue, a desire for a moral economy, something that Amartya Sen describes in his work The Idea of Justice. Or social justice, as Sen asks, is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? Which also connects to Manual Castells work on Communication Power, Continue reading
February 7, 2013
Epic (designing for transformation) / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged 911, Alan Moore, Amartya Sen, anti-globalization, Democracy, greece, Idea of Justice, life and death of democracy, Michel Bauwens, New York City, No Straight Lines, occupy, Paul Mason, protest, Puerta del Sol, Social justice, spain, United States
The transformative power of mobile money
… in the western world, we have credit cards, debit cards and bank accounts, and, for us, mobile payments offer some improved convenience. It won’t really change our lives. But most people on the planet do not have access to a bank account. Banking is very poorly developed in all African countries compared to the industrialised world. There are significant challenges to getting banking services working in Africa, ranging from the high costs of opening an account to very limited bank branches and services and remarkably bureaucratic requirements to verify identity… Continue reading
Adaptiveness / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Africa, Alan Moore, American Express, banking crisis, banking+regional development, currency, Debit card, financial innovation, future banking, future mobile, India, Kenya, m-banking, Mobile banking, Mobile money, Mobile payment, money, Mpesa, No Straight Lines, simple banking, simplexity, SMS, start up africa, sustainable banking, Tomi Ahonen
Open science part of our non-linear world
Science like other industries faces significantly interlinked challenges; how is science going to be funded in the future, and how does one accelerate scientific breakthrough? Who has the right to access? Because many innovative ideas that have changed society have arisen from the combination of curiosity and academic freedom. Continue reading
February 4, 2013
Education / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Elsevier, Fab lab, identity, Lawrence Lessig, networked research, No Straight Lines, Open access, Open research, open science commons, Open Source, Oxford University, San Diego, science+society, Timothy Gowers
The promise of an open innovation platform
The promise of an open innovation platform is that it has the ability to create value writes Jack Hughes of TopCoder. Indeed Chapter Seven of No Straight Lines, devotes itself to exploring the open society which offers better ways of sharing knowledge, power and wealth. In fact it is my belief that Openness as a principle and practice is resilience and that there is indeed a more sustainable approach to the varied and many challenges we face. Continue reading
February 3, 2013
Adaptiveness / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, business school, collaborative design, company as community, company of the future, Crowdsourcing, curatiba, design thinking, Elinor Ostrom, enterprise perfomance, firm of the future, Kenya, Kenyan, Knowledge management, No Straight Lines, open government, Open innovation, Open Source, participatory cultures, Patients Know Best, radical re-design of business, Straight Lines, Systems thinking, TopCoder, ushahidi+ngo+networked
Henry Jenkins interview No Straight Lines
Henry Jenkins interviews author Alan Moore: Through the years, we have remained in touch. Moore remains one of the most thoughtful people I have met — someone who reads broadly, who asks challenging questions, who is willing to explore alternative perspectives, and who is trying to construct his own theoretical model for the changes that are impacting our contemporary society. Continue reading
January 30, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Cambridge, collective craftsmanship, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, craftsmanship, engagement marketing, hand+heart+mind, Henry Jenkins, human os, identity, Innovation, Marketing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, No Straight Lines, Participatory culture, six principles no straight lines, smlxl, system upgrade, Systems thinking
Hacking the success of the Obama campaign 2012
A compelling story of how a group of very extraordinary people worked together to create transformational change to run a complex campaign to help get Obama re-elected as President. The lessons that present themselves are useful lessons for other organisations. There is a saying that purpose is the hidden leader, it seems clear without common purpose, a higher goal that all had signed up for – the radical re-design of the campaign tech platforms and their enhanced capability would never have happened. Continue reading
January 25, 2013
Adaptiveness / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Atlantic, Barack Obama, Brazil, Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power, EPIC, eric schimdt, harper reed, No Straight Lines, Obama, Patients Know Best, President of the United States, software engineering, Technology, transformation, United States
Ushahidi: a story of non-linear innovation
As described in No Straight Lines – what we face in a complex challenging world is a design challenge. Here is a story of how without spending any money a group of highly motivated people came together from around the world with multiple-design skills and capability, to create what has become the cutting edge in crisis management, and a new radical design of NGO. This organisation is called Ushahidi. Continue reading
January 21, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, complexity, Connectivity and the Diffusion of Power, crisis manangement, design thinking, future ngo, Innovation, inovation workshop, mobile, Mobile Web, No Straight Lines, Open Data, Open innovation, Open Source, participatory cultures, Systems thinking, ushahidi+ngo+networked
How to create an innovative and sustainable company
How do we approach and create an holistic and systemic design of a business? Here is a story from the book that explores a different way of creating greater value – not only in the the product but in fact through the entire organisation, being more lightweight, sustainable, and innovative. Continue reading
January 19, 2013
Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Business, C. Wright Mills, collective craftsmanship, craftsmanship, Design, Ethics, future of the company, gransfors bruks, Innovation, Master craftsman, No Straight Lines, Philosophy, Sustainability, Sweden, Systems thinking
The No Straight Lines Yearbook 2012
2012 was the year No Straight Lines was launched. It felt like a very hard year after hardly taking a breath between the research, writing and production and then onto bringing an idea into the world. But the sum of the parts adds up to quite an interesting year. Continue reading
January 9, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, complexity, future of business, future of the organization, hacking the future, Innovation, No Straight Lines, Patients Know Best, smlxl, the social enterprise, transformation
Austerity will not get us to the future we deserve, but creative entrepreneurial expression will
Britain socially and culturally has been shaped by our responses to successive technologies, harnessing their potential to enable us to play a significant role on the worlds stage. This moment in time really does feel like a turning point in our collective approach to the organisation of the economy and society. If we want our towns and cities to hum along, if we want to educate our young to be truly part of the 21st Century, if we want to create jobs and meaningful work, create breakthrough science and pharma projects, a healthcare system that really works, if we want factories of the future that can create value globally then is time for us to be as great as our finest engineers, industrialists, innovators who sought ways of getting things done that were transformational for our society and our economy. A mindset of austerity will not get us to that place. It is time for us to use one of our greatest assets creative entrepreneurial expression and design for transformation. Continue reading
January 2, 2013
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Andrew Haldane, complexity theory, Eastman Kodak, future britain, future education, future health, future manufacturing, future of business, human os, open innovation+open region+open commons+open data+open society+p2p society+open api's+, participatory cultures+participatory tools+designing for transformation+design+transformation+ambiguity+scenario planning+creativity+openness+adaptiveness+narrative+storytelling, systems design, Systems thinking
A sociedade a e economia no straight lines
An interview with HSM in Brazil about No Straight Lines. It is in Portuguese and you can download it here Continue reading
November 24, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged adaptatividade, assistência médica, capitalismo moral, co-criação, complexidade, comunicações móveis, concepção da empresa, concepção da empresa do futuro, concorrência e inovação, cultura, democracia aberta, desenho, economia colaborativa, educação, empresa do futuro, espiritualidade, espiritualidade do homem, ética, habilidade, humanidade conduz a tecnologia, identidade, inovação aberta, inovação automotiva, inovação cuidados crônicos de saúde, inovação cuidados de saúde, inovação financeira, movimento criador, mundo complexo, negócio, negócios sociais, negócios sustentáveis, organização, organização em rede, redesenho radical dos negócios, saúde, significado, sistemas de pensamento, sociedade, tecnologia, transformação, transformação de negócios
The Radical Re-Design of Business
This week I was invited to Shanghai to speak about the transformational design of businesses at Radical Design Week – Shanghai.
In the Heavy Metal Seminar (heavy industry rather than a debate about Metallica), my topic was car manufacturing and how with state of the art 3D fabrication tools, combined with networked participatory cultures and tools, insights into rapid innovation and build practices, a car company Local Motors can build cars five times faster at one hundred times less the capital cost and sell its first production vehicle The Rally Fighter at $79,000. This is radical transformational business design. Continue reading
November 2, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged 3D printing, alan moore+no straight lines, Automotive industry, BMW, crowdfunding, DARPA, design thinking, designing transformational organization, Detroit, fabrication, innovation workshops, Local Motors, Nova Scotia, Open innovation, participatory cultures, radical venturing, Rally Fighter, shanghai, the lean organization, transformational design, World Food Programme
Waterstones Cambridge hosts No Straight Lines
On the 7th November 2012 starting at 5.30pm I shall be giving an introductory talk about No Straight Lines at Waterstones in Cambridge.
Humanity shifts gear when it demands fundamental change to its real world circumstances and this moment in time really does feel like a turning point in our collective approach to the organisation of the economy and society as a whole. So what does humanity want, and, how is this aspiration driving systemic change? Continue reading
October 9, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged Alan Moore, Cambridge, complexity, design thinking, designing for humanity, future business, future innovation, future nhs, Innovation, nature of business, networks, No Straight Lines, smlxl, Systems thinking, talks+cambridge, Waterstones+talks
No Straight Lines: insanely ambitious?
Insanely ambitious – or as Tony Judt asked why do we experience such difficulty even imaging a different sort of society? Why is it beyond us to conceive a different set of arrangements to our common advantage? Continue reading
August 22, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, book review, designing resilient food systems, Diane Coyle, non-linearity+adaptive systems+complexity+innovation+networked leadership+managing complexity+adaptive management+resilience+maladaptive systems+maximum sustained yield+presistence of relat
Diane Coyle reviews No Straight Lines
I met Alan earlier in the week to talk about the book, which is about redesigning business models taking into account both the dramatic effects of digital technologies and the multiple crises – financial, environmental, social – crashing over western economies at present. It seemed quite an apt choice of reading material, having seen Danny Boyle’s brilliant vision of a Britain socially and culturally shaped by our responses to successive technologies. This moment in time really does feel like a turning point in our collective approach to the organisation of the economy and society. Continue reading
July 29, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged adapt, alan moore+no straight lines, Alison Hastings, craftsmanship, Danny Boyle, Diane Coyle, Economic, future business, Open Society, systems design
Spanish reviews of No Straight Lines
Es difícil encontrar visionarios de esta calibre que sean capaces de plasmar con tal sencillez el cambio de paradigma actual que estamos viviendo. Continue reading
July 10, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, betterness+social divide+industrial divide+occupy+co-op capitalism+natural capitalism+alan greenspan+the end of work, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, complejidad, crisis del euro, culturas participativas, de crisis en el crecimiento, democracia abierta, design thinking, design+diversity, diseño para la humanidad, economía de la colaboración, el capitalismo moral, ética en los negocios, futuro de la banca, hackear el futuro, innovación, innovación sanitaria, innovation+design+architecture, la co-creación, la educación del futuro, partido popular+el mundo, santander, sistema de actualización
upgrading business to a human OS
This is a short story about a long journey, which explores the need to upgrade business to a human OS (human operating system), and maps out a navigation guide to a better business future. Continue reading
July 8, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged #tdc12+#dolectures+#likeminds, a consumers republic, agroecosystem, alfred marshall+principles of economics, banking ethical alternatives, banking evolution+piero basetti+bolgna+emilio romagna, banking+corruption, banking+institutional investors, brands, business model innovation fro growth, business+creating sustainable future, campaign for rural development, civitas, community memory project+berkeley, community of practice+learning, community reinvestment act, community+collective survival, community+resistance identity, demos
Review of No Straight Lines, via Indie Reader
No Straight Lines offers a plethora of examples of how societies and companies around the world are using technology in a collaborative and innovative way, bringing success to their economy and a meaningful connection between the members of the community. Moore successfully demonstrates how many businesses and institutions are locked in all levels of bureaucracy in an outdated and inflexible world vision and makes a strong case about why we should and how to use the tools we have to “effect change and challenge an ideology that’s proven to now be inappropriate for its time.” Continue reading
May 10, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Author, Business, collective intelligence, Ethics, Organizations, Reading, Social Sciences
Frugal Innovation working for the collective good
Last night I settled in to listen In Business with BBC journalist Peter Day. What Innovation and transformation of people’s lives, economies, etc., is very much part of the No Straight Lines project as so I was thrilled to hear Professor Jaideep Prabhu from the Cambridge University Judge Business school and Professor Anil Gupta from the Indian Institute of Management talk about Jugaad Innovation. Jugaad is a Hindi word meaning an innovation; an improvised solution born from ingenuity and resourcefulness when faced with scarce resources. Continue reading
May 4, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged affordable innovation, agroforestry+integrated farming+sustainable development+applied ecology, alan moore+no straight lines, bbc, creative capitalism, designing for humanity, frugal innovation+jugaad+lost cost innovation+quality innovation, Hacker ethic, smxl, zynga
Designing and co-creating the best possible future for the NHS
The bitter public battle now being fought over the future of the NHS looks set to continue. Its future shape uncertain, and the mounting resistance that is so visceral is based upon fear, uncertainty and crucially a genuine lack of trust in those that claim to be guiding us to the best possible future the NHS. The Lancet in January 2011 agreed that the current system stifles innovation and that although vast sums have been invested in the NHS we have not seen the benefit delivered as valuable frontline services. So we need transformation. But the question is how do we get to that best possible future? How do we create a more sustainable NHS? Here are a couple of thoughts. Continue reading
April 1, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
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Peter Day BBC interview on No Straight Lines
Peter Day hears from Alan Moore author of No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world and asks him ‘what next’ for the industrialised world. In his book he argues that the industrialised world is facing the combined problems of social, organisational and economic complexity. In this edition of Global Business he tells Peter Day how No Straight Lines interprets the disruptive trends shaping our world and how companies can address the challenges and move onwards and upwards. Continue reading
March 18, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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Update on the No Straight Lines open access participatory book
Update on our experience of publishing No Straight Lines as an open access participatory book. Continue reading
March 13, 2012
participatory culture+tools / Technology
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Who is reading No Straight Lines and what are people saying?
We are getting some great feedback for No Straight Lines. So here is a small collection of what people have said about the book and project. Continue reading
February 28, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
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Book Review of No Straight Lines
What Alan Moore does really effectively is create a bridge from this thinking to the observations and thoughts of people like Seth Godin, Stephen Pressfield, Derek Sivers and John Hagel to paint a picture of how to add the “What” and “How” to the very large “Why” he describes. The book is well written, thoroughly researched and is a great base refence source for those of us interested in and committed to helping enable the change he foresees Continue reading
February 23, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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Reschooling our selves for a non-linear world
A short video introducing some of the core themes of the book No Straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear worldf Continue reading
February 15, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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How to design, and manufacture in a non-linear world
using agile software development, modular design, and rapid prototyping, the WikiSpeed car development team, developing a 100 MGP car for the Automotive X-Prize, has achieved an extraordinary compression of development time Continue reading
February 11, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, Automobile, Automotive X-Prize, Autos, Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, collaborative economy+collaborative enterprise, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, Design, designing for a complex world, designing for service+designing with data, Human operating system+humanOS, Manufacturing, Modular design, Price, prototyping, Rapid Prototyping, Shopping, Technology, Vehicles
What makes the Do Lectures in Wales so special?
A short story about an amazing experience that I would recommend to anyone with an inquiring mind Continue reading
February 10, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, d.school+design school+engagment+smlxl+alan moore, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, social+market+foundation+john kay+ed milliband+capitalism+markets+executive pay+moral society+moral business+Jesse Norman+matthew hancock+, The Do Lectures+Wales+inpiration+talks
The No Straight Lines challenge: be realistic imagine the impossible
What do these have in common?
A car company built around a global community as an organisation, enabled by combining flex manufacturing techniques, open source platforms, open legal frameworks and social communication technologies premised upon cooperation, fuelled by the desire to be a great company and green; that can build cars 5 times faster at 100 times less the capital costs. A crisis management platform and organisation born out of the Kenyan post-election crisis of 2008 that can record critical information of events unfolding on the ground via a blend of location-based data, eyewitness accounts and mobile telephony, from often hard to reach places which visualises those unfolding events so that others can act and direct action at internet speeds. And now utilised for free in many parts of the world. Or, the largest organic diary farm in Britain, that has evolved a methodology that allows it to remain autonomous, profitable and sustainable in a market that is acutely volatile, because large-scale agricultural farming is mostly run on an oil-based economy, plus diary farmers are at the calculating mercy of the marketing needs and whimsies of large chain supermarkets. Continue reading
January 24, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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The last of the Kodak moments
When faced with an ambiguous world some move into that world, and embrace it to understand it, listen deeply and think very hard about transformation – how to transform, how to design for transformation. This is a very hard thing to do and few do it well. I am sure we are all a little sad of the passing of Kodak. Continue reading
January 20, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / System breakdown / Technology
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Education, technology and the almost forgotten skill of craftsmanship
In John Naughton’s article about technology and education in I smiled a wry smile, as Naughton gave his perspective on how out-of-step current education is with the modern world, as we currently know it. Having just taken my dyslexic son out of state education, because the systemic way it wanted to school my child was too painful to watch from the sidelines any longer. I nodded along with his assessment, whilst reaching once again for my credit card, rather than reaching for the phone to the deputy head (the big head wont see me I am not important enough). What is happening is that the national curriculum’s worthy aspirations to educate pupils about ICT are transmuted at the chalkface into teaching kids to use Microsoft software. Our children are mostly getting ICT training rather than ICT education. And if you can’t see the difference, try this simple thought-experiment: replace “ICT” with “sex” and see which you’d prefer in that context: education or training? Continue reading
January 18, 2012
Craftsmanship / Education / participatory culture+tools / Technology
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Thank you to Founders Space for guesting my post on Crowdfunding
Dear Steve Hoffman, Thank you Founders Space for kindly hosting my post [The NEXT Silicon Valley is not a place it’s a platform] on the possibilities of crowdfunding for entrepreneurs.
January 13, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / Technology
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Thanks to Jo Pine for the thumbs up on No Straight Lines
‘Anyone worried about where business is going in today’s chaotic world – and everyone concerned with where it should be going – must read No Straight Lines Continue reading
January 3, 2012
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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The NEXT Silicon Valley is not a place it's a platform
It wont be the banks, and it wont be the VC’s – so WHAT’s NEXT for the funding of innovative and entrepreneurial companies – that small spark which fires nascent, embryonic companies into life? How do we fast track those companies to maturity? As right now faced with the increasing speed it seems of the decay of an old industrial system all countries need more startups. Continue reading
December 17, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
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The £2 Chicken: the adaptive edge of food production and consumption
On BBC Radio 4 today the food programme explored how we are at the adaptive edge of how we farm and retail food. With growing economies like China we are beginning to be squeezed by the needs and demands of other countries. In the BBC 4 programme Dan Saladino explores how higher food prices are changing what we buy and how we eat. From increases in food related crime to shortages of ingredients, he asks, what else is in store? Continue reading
December 11, 2011
Adaptiveness / Ambiguity / Craftsmanship / Education / Epic (designing for transformation) / Openness / participatory culture+tools / System breakdown / Technology
Tagged alan moore+no straight lines, co-creation+open+openness+participatory leadership+language, crop rotation+green manure+compost+biological pest contro+genetically modified organisms+plant growth regulators+food additives+Organic Agriculture Movements+Food quality and safety+Climate change+Far, design+literacy+innovation+process+leadership+education+economics+society+commerce+culture+community+business+ethics+identity+psychology+beauty+diversity+data+technology, designing for a complex world, DO Lectures, Food, Food & Drug Administration, food+supermarkets+agriculture+yeo valley+organic+defra+soil association+do lectures+dan saladino+supermarkets+volatility+complexity, henry jenkins+howard rheingold+barbara ehrenreich+amartya sen+eric beinhocker+yochai benkler+robert axelrod+robert putman+manuel castells+jan van dijk+john kay+will hutton+jerrold seigel+jane jacobs+e, Human operating system+humanOS, Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm