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Saturday, November 02, 2002

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My comments are back! My comments are back!

Thanks to Lawrence I fixed my faux pas on the Manila server and I have my very own comment system now. Cool.



Alternative Reality

These two posts showed up adjacent to each other in my news aggregator. Eerie, huh?

The Intuitive Manager and Innovation. By: Leland R. Kaiser, PhD Intuition gives birth to innovation. Innovation results in social and organizational change. Highly intuitive managers promote change by sensing "what could be." By contrast, managers with little intuition resist change by reinforcing "what is." In an absolute sense, "what is" is no more real than "what could be." Either reality is equally available at all times to all healthcare... [HeartMath Report] [Leaders.net]

Alternative Logic. In a previous installment you've seen some of the alternatives to numbers that exist. But can we do something even more radical? How about going to the very foundations of mathematics itself and replacing logic itself? That might sound a little unusual, I mean logic's logic, you can't choose what you want to be true can you? Well actually there are plenty of alternatives to familiar classical logic, so many that I can't hope to do justice to them in one article. Nonetheless, I can still try to throw out a few teasers and hope you are motivated to check out the references and links to see what I'm really talking about. [kuro5hin.org] [Seb's Open Research]



The State of the Union

The state of the nation is as poor as it has been in 30 years and this opinion from JR via Doc is a nice summary. For the first time in my memory I want to cast a blanket "None of the Above" vote on Tuesday. I suspect we were in such disarray during the early 70s with Watergate and the oil crisis, but I was too young to remember. But even then I don't know that all three branches of government and both political parties seemed so utterly befuddled. In lighter times I would vote Libertarian, but such a move seems almost trivial when the entire system is in such chaos.

Bitter ends.

I'm in agreement with John Robb in this response to the latest news on the Microsoft antitrust case.

This is a depressing situation. The SEC is AWOL, the DOJ has abdicated its responsibilities in favor of security, the courts are in confusion, our President is obsessed with war, our economy is teetering near the edge of oblivion, and our opposition parties are in disarray.  This is not the end of the world, but it does mean that we are in a protracted low point for the US. We just need to wait this out. Nothing else to do.  Unfortunately, that may take a decade.  Hopefully less.

But I think blame needs to be placed on the original case. It was lousy. I've explained why already, so I won't bother again here. No time anyway. (Hey, it's a freaking weekend.)

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Technology seems to be the heart of the problem. The technological burst that is the Internet, inter-connectedness, and the free flow of communication has almost paralyzed free governments with fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Funny, we thought the information revolution would bring down the dictators and despots. It seems to be bringing us down instead.



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