The idea that ants, honeybees, or other social animals might do a thing or two better than we do is ancient.
A qui profite la dette ? - YouTube - 0 views
Open Atrium - 0 views
Conversation Agent: How Social Currency Influences Behavior - 0 views
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Buying patterns. influence
http://www.greenpeace.org/belgium/Global/belgium/report/2010/7/Energy_Revolution_En.pdf - 0 views
IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers - Telegraph - 0 views
Democracy in honeybees and other animals: What humans can learn from social species. - ... - 0 views
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Tom Seeley has written a lovely and compelling book titled Honeybee Democracy which suggests we turn to the bees to see how they make decisions. Thanks to the work of Seeley and his collaborators, it is now clear that honeybee hives really are democratic.
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When it’s time to look for a new nest, options are weighted by the evaluations of many different bees about a site’s qualities—its size, its humidity, the density of surrounding flowers. Individual bees vote with dances, and when the number of dances in favor of some particular site is high enough, the masses are swayed. Together, citizen bees choose, if not perfection, the best possible option.
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Awesome article. I did highlite it but really deserves a full read.
The ECB Report on Bitcoin and Virtual Currencies - Blog - Genesis Block - The... - 0 views
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"On Oct 29, 2012, the European Central Bank (ECB) released an official (and very nicely prepared) report called "Virtual Currency Schemes." The 55-page report looks at several facets of what virtual currencies are, how they're being used, and what they can do. "
The relation of habitual thought and behavior to language - Whorf - 0 views
Working with e-prime: some practical notes - 0 views
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"To achieve adjustment and sanity and the conditions that follow from them, we must study the structural characteristics of this world first and, then only, build languages of similar structure, instead of habitually ascribing to the world the primitive structure of our language." Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity.
Selective attention test - YouTube - 0 views
General semantics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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"General semantics is a program begun in the 1920s that seeks to regulate the evaluative operations performed in the human brain. . After partial launches under the names "human engineering" and "humanology,"[1] Polish-American originator Alfred Korzybski[2] (1879-1950) fully launched the program as "general semantics" in 1933 with the publication of Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics."
Ouishare - 0 views
Waterfootprint.org: Water footprint and virtual water - 0 views
How Social Media and Smart Devices Impact Consumers' Buying Decisions [Infographic] | M... - 0 views
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Good infographic about how markets are getting smarter and using mobile technologies
Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies - 0 views
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Tools, practices, articles, resources for personal knowledge management and collective intelligence within organizatons.
Visual Thinking Archive - a set on Flickr - 0 views
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Great set about social business, marketing and more
People | PatternDynamics - 0 views
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This is a tool that has been mentioned as the ONE tool for sustainability and probably thrivability in the integral world.
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