CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Colloquium Unfinished Revolution
Net System, 000127
Electronic Notebook
Core of Knowledge Management
Groupware, Enterprise Management
Virtual Office Uses Internet
Electronic Conferencing

1309 -    ..
1310 - Summary/Objective
1311 -
131101 - Follow up ref SDS 40 0001.
131102 -
131103 - John Deneen submitted information on two existing technologies for
131104 - consideration in formulating core DKR capabilities.  Paul Fernhout
131105 - reviewed arguements on balancing free markets and managed economy
131106 - policy choices in addressing resource depletion and humanity issues.
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1312 -
1313 -
1314 - Progress
1315 -
131501 -  ..
131502 - Groupware and Notebook Computer Provide Starting Point
131503 -
131504 - Follow up ref SDS 40 8960.
131505 -
131506 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from John Deneen, VP SATCOM Consultants, Inc.,
131507 - responding to Eric Armstrong's letter on 000124, ref DRP 2 0001, which
131508 - endorsed Jeff Miller's suggestion to discuss system design with
131509 - specific examples, ref DRP 1 7708, reported on 000124. ref SDS 38 8960
131510 -
131511 -        [On 000305 John suggests reviewing Xanadu. ref SDS 42 0866
131512 -
131513 - John proposes the DKR provide groupware for "virtual," electronic
131514 - conferencing and collaboration using the web.  He explains and
131515 - provides a resource for reviewing...
131516 -
131517 -  ..
131518 -
131519 -      NetSystem
131520 -
131521 -      ... an integrated system of World Wide Web (WWW) based
131522 -      collaborative "groupware" tools that enable the secure "virtual"
131523 -      electronic interaction of teams of professionals. ref DRT 1 5525
131524 -
131525 -      http://techconf.llnl.gov/Help/Quicknew.html
131526 -
131527 -      More info about the University of California Institute on Global
131528 -      Conflict and Cooperation to use the Internet for electronic
131529 -      conferencing, part of a proposed "virtual diplomacy" initiative
131530 -      for dealing with Environmental Threats & National Security can be
131531 -      found at...
131532 -
131533 -      http://cgsr.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/downloader/CGSR_lib/009-0006.htm
131534 -
131535 -      http://cgsr.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/downloader/CGSR_lib/009-0008.htm
131536 -      ..
131537 -      Electronic Notebook Software - is for scientists and
131538 -      engineers to do remote experimentation and collaboration...
131539 -
131540 -      http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~geist/java/applets/enote/
131541 -
131542 - Electronic (video) conferencing, collaboration and "virtual" office
131543 - seem to be contemplated as Enterprise Management capabilities of the
131544 - Dynamic Knowledge Repository (DKR) based on Doug's 1992 paper on
131545 - Gruopware reviewed on 991222. ref SDS 35 5360
131546 -
131547 - On 000120 support for collaboration was cited as a key capability for
131548 - augmenting. ref SDS 37 1640
131549 -
131550 - John further suggests evaluating...
131551 -
131552 -  ..
131553 -
131554 -      Electronic Notebook
131555 -
131556 -      Software for scientists and engineers to do remote
131557 -      experimentation and collaboration. ref DRT 1 2048
131558 -
131559 -      http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~geist/java/applets/enote/
131560 -
131561 -
131562 - John provides a letter he used to obtain the software, ref DRT 1 7280,
131563 - and a response from the government agency sponsoring the Electronic
131564 - Notebook, requesting suggestions for improvements. ref DRT 1 1334
131565 -
131566 - John does not provide an explanation of his experience using these
131567 - tools.
131568 -
131569 -      •  <QX57 Did John obtain the software and try it?
131570 -
131571 -      •  How effective was it for
131572 -
131573 -         a.  collaboration?
131574 -         b.  electronic conferencing
131575 -         c.  remote experimentation
131576 -         d.  local exepriementation
131577 -
131578 -
131579 - John's letter requesting the Electronic Notbebook program discloses
131580 - his background as a scientist...
131581 -
131582 -      ... former LLNL scientist and my consulting affiliation with the
131583 -      Archimedes Project at Stanford...
131584 -
131585 -      http://corporate.stanford.edu/stanford/showset.html
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SUBJECTS
Objectives, Collective IQ
Competition, Cooperation, Innate Conflict to Integrated Tools
Tragedy of Commons Competition Inhibits Sharing
Global Problems Too Vast Lack Focus
ABC Improvement Model
New Reality Management Imploding
Binary Forces, Market Forces
Command and Control
Malthusian Predictions
Club of Rome Predictions
Biodiversity Diminishing
Sunshine Profits Shield Management from Mistakes
World Problems Balance Free Markets Long Term Environmental Cycles of

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331601 -  ..
331602 - Competition Limits Value of DKR to Support Collaboration
331603 -
331604 - Follow up ref SDS 38 4028.
331605 -
331606 - Paul Fernhout responds, ref DRT 2 0001, to Mike Taylor's letter about
331607 - the character of problems that need support by a DKR, in relation to
331608 - striking the balance between a free market model of economic theory
331609 - and command and control of a "managed economy" often associated with a
331610 - socialist or communist totalitarian government.
331611 -
331612 - Paul concurs with Mike's explanation that predictions of economic and
331613 - humanitarian strife would ensue with depletion of natural resources,
331614 - have failed because free markets move investment and ingenuity toward
331615 - development of alternative resources.
331616 -
331617 -     [On 001219 Paul recommends that DKR project address values, and
331618 -     feels KM is not necessary to solve unmet needs of world hunger.
331619 -     ref SDS 44 GN5H
331620 - ..
331621 - Paul says the Club or Rome report...
331622 -
331623 -     http://www.clubofrome.org/
331624 -
331625 - ...and related simulation led to many of these predictions, but has
331626 - been discredited.  It did not allow for any technological improvement.
331627 - ref DRT 2 6156
331628 -
331629 -     http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/19-12-98/1997.html
331630 -
331631 - Even Malthus, in later editions (1806, rarely cited), recanted the
331632 - notion that population always grows faster than food supply.
331633 -
331634 -     http://www.monthlyreview.org/1298jbf.htm
331635 -
331636 - Julian Simon is cited as supporting Mike's advocacy for free market
331637 - solutions to allocation of resources. ref DRT 2 4224  Web sites are
331638 - listed for Simon's work, with special attention to...
331639 -
331640 -     http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/BMGT/.Faculty/JSimon/Ultimate_Resource/
331641 - ..
331642 - Sources for views opposing Simon, and presumably free markets,
331643 - ref DRT 2 7310, are given as...
331644 -
331645 -     http://www.jps.net/zpg/
331646 -
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331648 -
331649 -  ..
331650 - Diminishing Biodiversity and Free Markets
331651 -
331652 - Paul argues that Simon's free market theory does not adequately
331653 - address the problem of diminishing biodiversity as an irreplaceable
331654 - resource. ref DRT 2 7221
331655 -
331656 - He maintains that common action is therefore needed to guide market
331657 - forces toward action that avoids this common problem.
331658 -
331659 -      [On 000604 Paul makes same argument. ref SDS 43 1075
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331662 -  ..
331663 - Free Markes Fail to Empower Poor and Inept; Community Needs Humanity
331664 -
331665 - Paul notes that people without money, unskilled, starving in poverty,
331666 - unable to work cannot participate in the market. Other market players
331667 - may take it upon themselves to solve this problem through charity...
331668 -
331669 -     http://www.hungersite.com/
331670 -
331671 - ...or variants of charity (taxation and redistribution via welfare or
331672 - education or jobs training or economic development), but it is not a
331673 - *direct* working of the market. ref DRT 2 1786
331674 -
331675 - ..
331676 - Paul argues...
331677 -
331678 -    •  charity is needed for those unable to participate in the market,
331679 -
331680 -    •  laws must govern activities with external costs,
331681 -
331682 -    •  regulations must prevent chaos.
331683 -
331684 - He says the only question is what are our non-economic goals, and how
331685 - can we structure our economics best to achieve them? ref DRT 2 0868
331686 -
331687 -      [On 000128 Clark supports this view. ref SDS 41 4028]
331688 -
331689 -
331690 -     ..
331691 -    Communities Form Organically from Common Values and Objectives
331692 -    Sunshine Profits Invest to Recycle Failure for Vital Community
331693 -
331694 -    Paul makes a strong point about the need for a community to
331695 -    establish values.  Culture and tradition mold civilization, and
331696 -    identify people within a hierarchy of organizations, i.e., a
331697 -    nation, state, city, company and team, based on common values
331698 -    and/or objectives.
331699 -
331700 -    The U.S. Constitution cites the need to establish justice and
331701 -    secure the blessings of freedom, do ordain and establish a
331702 -    statement of laws for self-government.  A hallmark of the design is
331703 -    to balance competing forces for individual liberty with community
331704 -    responsibility.  To avoid the tyranny of the mob, and the status
331705 -    quo, yet to rein in freedom short of license and chaos.
331706 -    ..
331707 -    Markets require economic vitality, and so must invest to
331708 -    reduce the consequences of "failure," as a common necessity to
331709 -    sustain a stable community, and further to provide multiple chances
331710 -    for latent talent to flourish.  The market does not know where the
331711 -    next Rockefeller or Gates might arise, and cannot afford to permit
331712 -    human capital to be wasted.  What people commonly call charity, is
331713 -    in reality an investment in a diversified portfolio.  Since it is
331714 -    necessarily high risk, the investment must be prudent.
331715 -
331716 -        [On 000128 cite theory of deferred reciprocal treatment that
331717 -        explains biological drive for charity. ref SDS 41 1020]
331718 -
331719 -    This is the investment theory for sunshine profits.  The source of
331720 -    profit is human ingenuity.  It must be continually invested to
331721 -    discover and nurture innovation and industry from all quarters.
331722 -    ..
331723 -    Taxation is one form of investment.
331724 -
331725 -
331726 -  ..
331727 - Community Requires Community Investment
331728 -
331729 - Paul points out that markets take time to work, so if someone needs
331730 - help now, then non-market intervention may be justified, and further
331731 - notes that investment for prenatal care, educational daycare, parental
331732 - leave, and community services like after-school centers, are needed to
331733 - reduce the burden of dollars and human tragedy from failed lives that
331734 - lead to imprisonment. ref DRT 2 1798
331735 -
331736 -
331737 -     ..
331738 -    Community Requires Community Investment, Balancing Binary Forces
331739 -
331740 -    There is a market for prenatal care, daycare, vacations and so on,
331741 -    but not everyone implements them in a consistent manner, because
331742 -    they relate to personal preference and values.  Not all children do
331743 -    well in these settings.  Children are fairly malable and pretty
331744 -    much grow up finding their way and honing their talents in a vast
331745 -    market of opportunities presented through school, television,
331746 -    friends and relatives.
331747 -
331748 -    No matter what level of resources are available, people will have a
331749 -    range of outcomes from good to bad.
331750 -
331751 -    Government mandates on family life inevitably make problems worse,
331752 -    as evidenced in Romania, USSR and China.
331753 -
331754 -
331755 -  ..
331756 - Binary Forces Balance Expression of Self-interest Based on Context
331757 -
331758 - Paul notes that "self-interest" is expressed by individuals in
331759 - different ways in different contexts. ref DRT 2 5427
331760 -
331761 -    One example is the movie Reds where the main character champions
331762 -    the ascendency of communism in Russia that subordinates individual
331763 -    expression to improve the collective, but then objects that his
331764 -    self-expression through writing in order to achieve that end,
331765 -    should not be subject to the same test of common good.
331766 -
331767 -    Generally, people making the rules support global adherence to one
331768 -    approach, while those who want to be making the rules champion
331769 -    diversity, until the acquire the reins of power, then they suddenly
331770 -    recognized the benefits of focusing attention on their ideas, and
331771 -    see less merit in wasting time on the ideas of others.
331772 - ..
331773 - This supports the need to balance binary forces of nature cited
331774 - on 000125. ref SDS 40 3089  The balance will never be struck, we can
331775 - only hope to moderate swings of the pendulum to avoid our "ant nest"
331776 - from breaking off the twig and falling into the river, cited by Paul,
331777 - before we can transplant to another stronger twig, or reinforce the
331778 - twig with a steel girder. ref DRT 2 7462  The U.S. Constitution
331779 - strives to minimize these risks through a balance of forces, national
331780 - and states rights, legislative and executive functions, elections for
331781 - some and appointment for life of judges. This allows a wide range of
331782 - ideas to be tried with minimal risk to the entire "nest."
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