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	March 25, 2007

Sunday Open Thread - March 25, 2007 What I'm planning on writing about soon: Finding & Working With Others: Instead of working alone, connecting and collaborating with others, on our own terms, in our own context, developing our own plan of action. A billion diverse people doing our own thing but in sync, in community. Some early thoughts on this, sure to stir up controversy: The mechanism for finding others won't be a website, database or other online technology. The mechanism for finding others cannot be one of agency, because person-to-person connection agencies are fatally flawed by their intrinsic conflict of interest. The Fourth Turning: The coming dark and turbulent era. (I gave away my copy of the book, so this one will have to wait until I pick up a new copy). The 'M' word. Squatter Communities (in struggling nations, which now contain as many as 1.5 billion people) as Model Intentional Communities. New Developments in Innovation: Disrupting the disrupters; Next-gen biomimicry; New fields of peer-to-peer technology.  Knowledge Management: Common-denominator low-hanging fruit. What I'm thinking about: We live in a world of specialization and communication. So why are there so few excellent craftspeople, and so few excellent conversationalists? Bad practice? What do you think? Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams. He and I will both be in Denver presenting at SLA 2007, June 3-6. Oh, Al Gore will be there too. 2:30:37 PM  trackback []  comment []

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