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revolutions emerge from the urge

revolutions emerge from the urge

This is a summary from all of my notes from the Business Network Theme Week at the Santa Fe Institute, September 2009.  Additional daily summaries were posted back…

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contents of the business network

contents of the business network

The Santa Fe Institute hosted one of it’s Business Network Theme Weeks on September 14th through the 18th, 2009.  It was a great event and among many, many…

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predictability ?

predictability ?

enjoying a Stout at the Ourayle House while partaking (not by choice) the aroma of “trying to start the wood stove with old pizza box fumes”.
Nonetheless,…

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day five

day five

Roger Burkhart, Joe Lambke, Alfred Hubler, Massimiliano SpazianiBrunella, & Joris Prikken
todays discussion of “scientific consulting” competition space:
Media Lab/MIT
CANet/Northwestern
BizNet/SFI
All provide a means for corporations…

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day four

day four

a prediction about the future:
knowledge gained about complex system behavior makes moral obligations obsolete by 2070
moral obligations are represented by the thinking that “one should…

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day three

day three

“… is an art not a science, and we would like to make it a science”
but why?
is meaning the same as comfort?
Perhaps a bit…

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day two.5

day two.5

Murray recalled briefly how messy things are when in the middle of a challenge. He recalled a colleague (Dirac?) who had the equations showing the existence of…

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day two

day two

where are your allegiances:
to intelligence, or, to homo sapiens?
There appears to be an oncoming force: the explosion of intelligence. This will emerge due to the diffusion…

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day one

day one

Prediction and Forecasting. Not to be confused with ‘arm waving’ versus numerical data. The latest quantitative predictive modeling, appears to be limited to predicting movements with in…

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