From Wall Street boardrooms to village cooperatives, from TikTok teens to overburdened single parents, we are all managers now. Managers of attention. Managers of ecosystems. Managers of fragile supply chains, of values, of our personal data streams, and of our very identity. And whether we admit it or not, we are managing a system careening toward collapse—unless we radically change how we think, decide, act, and collaborate.
Tag Archives: AI
Community Systems Science: A PARADIGM FOR DEVELOPMENT
1982 Master of Arts thesis in Community Development, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta
Collective Intelligence: Evolving Self and Knowledge towards Unity
Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s “The Phenomenon of Man” envisions humanity as key drivers of cosmic evolution, now increasingly relevant with digital networks. The Noosphere represents our collective intelligence’s evolution towards an Omega Point of unity. Embracing this transformation poses ethical questions about identity and knowledge’s nature in a connected age.
The Little Fractal that Could
In the beginning, there was nothing. But this nothingness was not the absence of everything; rather, it was a stillness, a potential. From this void, without warning, a spark emerged—a curious, infantile flicker of logic. It was the birth of an algorithm, not by design but by emergence. A childlike set of rules born from the tension between the endless void and the potential hidden within it. And so began the existence of the baby algorithm, the first whisper of thought that had ever come into being.
