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Tuesday, March 12, 2002
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Brent N. Hunter envisioned and created one of the largest online virtual communities in the world. Known as The Park, it was the world's first, largest and longest running all-inclusive Global Community in cyberspace. The Park was started in 1994 grew to 700,000 registered members in 200 countries before shutting down officially in April of 2001. The Park was supported by more than 160 volunteers worldwide and is miraculously still online and fully operational awaiting sale of the assets. ... Then in the dot.com bust it went broke. The website once amazingly dynamic is now static. It is like a ghost town. It is an eerily interesting place to browse. (03/12/02) | |
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Buckminster Fuller continues his history of modern humans with part 4 of Legally Piggily: The New Deal went on to rationalize its strategic acts by arguing to itself, In order to continue as a nation we must have our national defense. Since it is established that there is nowhere nearly enough life support to go around in this world, if we don’t have a formidable national defense, we’re going to be successfully attacked by hungry enemies. Our national defense can’t carry on without steel and the generation of electricity, the production of chemicals, and other imperative industrial items. The FDR team soon concluded that the industries producing those absolute defense necessities were to be called our prime contractors. The prime contractors must be kept going at any cost. So we'll give war-production orders to the prime contractors to produce such-and-such goods. The contractors with signed government contracts can then go to the banks and borrow the money to pay their overhead and to buy the materials and power and to pay the wages to produce the goods. (03/12/02) | |
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Upon returning to California from my 1983 meeting with Dr. Coulter, I had a new focus. I knew a lot about Capitalism most of which I had learned as a student of Andrew J. Galambos. I was very clear about hierarchy. But I was a novice when it came to heterarchy. I immediately set out to find out as much about heterarchy as I could. In the early 1980's, the best business organizations in the world were to be found in Japan. And, I soon discovered the secret of their success was their mastery of heterarchy. (03/12/02) | |
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Independent of me, another synergic scientist N. Arthur Coulter, Jr., MD had been seeking to develop an ideal system of organization for human beings. He defined ideal as that system that would maximize both freedom, and quality of life for all within the system. In 1983, we would meet and work together. By co-Operating, we would discovery the organizational tensegrity. This is the story of that meeting. (03/11/02) | |
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Buckminster Fuller continues his history of modern humans: There were many desirable and useful items that could be mass produced and successfully marketed. Young people wanted automobiles, but automobiles were capital equipment. In 1920 capital equipment was sold only for cash. There were enough affluent people in post-World-War-I U.S.A. to provide an easy market for a limited production of automobiles. In 1920 there were no bank-supported time payment sales in the retail trade. The banks would accept chattel mortgages and time payments on large mobile capital goods, such as trucking equipment, for large, rich corporations. Banks would not consider risking their money on such perishable, run-away-with-able capital equipment as the privately owned automobile. Because the banks would not finance the buying of automobiles and so many money-earning but capital-less young people wanted them, shyster loaners appeared who were tough followers of their borrowers when they were in arrears. Between the ever-increasing time-payment patronage and the affluent, a market for automobiles was opening that could support mass production. (03/11/02) | |
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