The Nature of the Future
L3C, a “low-profit” limited liability company that operates for profit but has as its primary focus achievement of socially beneficial goals, with profit making as a secondary goal.
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the Social Genome Project, whose aim is to create a simulation model of social mobility over the life cycle—from
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Today the World Game continues to be played across universities and is currently being further developed by o.s.Earth. John Hunter, a public school teacher in Virginia, carries the torch lit by Fuller by engaging his grade-school students in playing the World Peace Game, which he describes in a TED Talk.34 In a similar but more far-reaching
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cognitive divide. Those who are self-driven or whose social networks drive them to acquire more and more knowledge and to consume more and more rich content will be able to increase their cognitive capital, while those who do not possess such drive or whose social settings do not encourage such accumulation of knowledge will be left farther and
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differentiate us, at least for now, from smart machines include: ■ Sensemaking: the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed ■ Social and emotional intelligence: the ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions ■ Novel and adaptive
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■ Sensemaking: the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed ■ Social and emotional intelligence: the ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions ■ Novel and adaptive thinking: proficiency at coming up with solutions and responses beyond
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This doesn’t necessarily mean working less; it means doing work on our own terms instead of someone else’s.
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Our response has been to outsource citizenship, that is, participation in major decisions of our state, to specialists—a professional class of politicians aided by professional opinion makers and enabled by big-money interests—and allow them to make decisions for us.