Death of Distance: Macrae Future History Revolution Maps : Monthly Innovation Feeds

Death of Distance (DoD) offers monthly clusters of sightings of where on the web the world is changing fastest for humanity. Inspect the archives for the best news reported into us each month by correspondents for over a hundred club of cities and all hemispheres. Any blogger or web content editor who is interested in exploring our future views with us is welcome to use our monthly feeds if they wish: our 1984 book : the net is the biggest revolution human beings have ever faced in one generation- bigger even than the steam engine which begot the the industrial revolution because that was mainly a transport (shift in place) revoltion whereas the net is a shift in place*space (communications revolution) Between 1984-2024: all these constructs will change in the way their value (productive*demanding) impacts impact peoples: what use it is being a member of a nation serving each other at work rather than being bossed what economics is best for most people how we learn -eg we need to be able to select our best mentors through life (come on the other side of the world) and help others do likewise transparency 1 - neither addicting a young customer nor profiteering exponentially from what a customer of any age or a society is a sustainable network economy model transparency 2 - we can ill afford nations or global market sectors that intentionally compound risk or shortage onto others just because they know more first; we can't afford any nation compounding an underclass because its fears, terrors, polutions or illnesses will wave through us all, as well as this not being connected to the colaboration advantage which has been the human species ticket to surviving nature's biggest chnages Since my dad's survey in 1976 in The Economist, we have cheered all forms of entrepreneurial revolution - people who transform systems as they multiply more value on all sides of producing and demanding in ways that sustain upward exponentials, not just a bubble up and down. As well our 1984 book, we've been involved in most future histories involving forward exponential anlaysis, predicting which natoios were sustaining upward paths since 1962 (Japan), debating megatrends, storytelling with Herman Kahn, and revisiting the main mathematicians and mapmakers concerned with compound future consequences from Einstein to Von Neumann, from Deming to Buckmister Fuller, from Gombrich to Drucker... We believe the future explorer's maxim: the future is happening somewhere, its just not evenly distributed. Netizens can turn this round and correspond openly around what deep-context future is happening near them; and swap how this works with other netizens. Imagine some traingular mentoring 1 2 games of snap: where the future happening around A may be incredibly valuable for B to know about, whereas futures happening around her may be most valuable for C, and C's future's may be most valuable for A. Solaroof's wiki which is due to be celebrated in roadshows round Britain in 2006 - and scaled asap worldwide by one (eg Omniworldview) or more of aSIN's nominated best for humanity investment nets - is a most fascinating example of this where inventors are mapping how rich arid deserts will as photosynthetic energisers of clean power. One great way for extremely poor people to become richer without making those well off people poorer. We believe thousands smaller ways as well as a few more bib ways can and need to be found by 2010 so that we can truly see that extreme poverty will be banished from the future not compounded by it. Corresponding for the future can multiply great benefits for all as long as we know from the start that while powrerful people appear to applaud innovation, they do sometimes have short-term motivatations to sabotage it. For one of two reasons: it may take away some of their old power, or as increasingly happens when integrating global and local change, it may require all sides to move through a conflict barrier. Some leaders love facilitating this for people, but many don't. This is particulary the case if the conflict is going to show that something they lobbied for ten years ago turns out to be a mistake compared with what we now know could be best. What we need more than ever is to celebrate all forms of governance that look to the future to detect emerging conflicts in time to resolve them. Once a conflict creeps into a system and propagates cycles after cycle it acts like a cancer so that an organisation which once served a great purpose starts losing reality of doing good but pumps more and more cost into the image of still being purpsoeful. This is not only poor marketing but it invalidates economic theory's assumption that competition is being directed in a way that human beings can overall trust as progress. For all these reasons, on our timeline from 1984, the years to 2010 were scheduled to be the most dramatic, when every human being needed to stand up uniting what we each know how to do most deeply and caringly. If not enough of us connect, the risk is that a globalisation of ever plummeting trust will take over, and soon after 2010 that will be spinning unstopably towards all the worst nightmares of social control by technology that the Orwellian scenario and other science fiction writers have feared, rather than the optimistic ones others have mapped. Because of DoD, the 21st Century is mathematically bound to be either the best of times or the worst of times for all of our species- but exponentially the singularity will soon turn one irreversibly of these ways. Please will you join us in spotting and celebrating all the most human DoD happenings so they can be replicated worldwide faster than the fearful ones.

Gospelising the mission -is Clare one of 21stC's David Livingstones? If so who else is in the David Livingstone network of journalism? http://www.pledgebank.com/bbcgames Can we connect realisation of the above huge question with the one below? Could there be any simpler way for collaboration 1 2 to change the world 1 2 than bloggers 1 2 and teachers 1 2 helping all people to beam up their communities most critical challenges into this. Transparent , Sustainable 1 2 and interactive 1 2 3 4 valuation of corporate branding 1 2 3 4 if you wish. http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com/ At its core our death of distance future history nets - formed by an economist, a science fiction writer, a doctor of biology, a mathematician, a future systems mapmaker and experimenters with learning networks - have been debating charters for 22 years now which clarify that sustainability or destruction of humanity by globalisation is a media and mediation revolution. There's a huge quality/leadership mediation idea emerging among those who opinion lead Social Entrepreneur (SE) networks and citizen organisations - corporations who get this will have a huge competitive advantage. ( I first understood this idea when watching the 16 ashoka dvd testimonies by their 6 top guides to SE as a maturing quality of leadership) -ref 1 2 Suppose we have a class of corporations of 2006 voted as getting SE. How would we keep raising the bar each year for corporations to be in the class. One suggestion is that as well as increasingly funding relevant SE projects (surely better corporate branding than television spots) the top league should increasingly be asked to sign the 10 global compact principles so that by 2015 nothing the corporation does is in conflict with them This idea raises different sorts of questions depending how your initiatives are helping to popularise SE quality or project activate it http://project30000.blogspot.com/ . Constant conversations and feedback and feedforward is needed from travellers like Clare and fans like us to make sure SE quality challengers leaders in the ways diversity's urgent challenges most need. There is one parallel in corporate history as far as I know- 1980's Baldrige quality maturity profile benchmarking leagues I don't want to distract this thread from its exciting travels around the world. It's my purpose to try to contact everyone with everyone who believes we can Baldrige SE as a worldwide way of valuing corporations progress towards sustaining people (especially those in desparte need most impacted by particular sectors global and local leadership). Do contact me any time to discuss more C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net

Can you help co-create and open source the Peoples Surveys

eg DoD1 is a survey which assumes love thy neighbour is a ky commandemnt which we all need to debate how to lifve up to in a networked world of 2 million global villages

Survey DoD1: Which communities do you know of who love thy neighbour?

I think that surveys can help people simplify what sort of collaboration challenges networks pose. Here is some background to survey DoD1 which may help the way you answer it

Since a Death of Distance (DoD) book I co-authored in 1984, we have been interested in changing economics to truly map a networked world. We see a networked world comprising 2 million or more global villages or communities (people whose productive and demanding relationships with each other are systemised around compounding a sustainability consequence)

DoD means that we are no longer talking of such villages as just defined by geography and local governance. Any global industry sector is spinning a consequence, as is a religious or educational system defined round priority beliefs in how people’s time is spent as well as what becoming educated is, as is any identifiable group – eg a network open sourcing a project franchise that is replicable interlocally in helping make a cause of extreme poverty history or all women with at least 10 years experience on the net of advancing women’s views of humanity could each be a village or cluster of villages.

Since 1984, we’ve been hosting debates of a networked world as: an unprecedented revolutionary change to hit one generation of peoples on earth. Unless 6 billion beings can agree how ten or fewer commandments transparently fit for multiplying goodwill through this transformation, global consequences of being everywhere connected will end up in very inhuman outcomes.

Any commandment requires debates everywhere we can loosely connect to work through practical contextual details. Examples: the DoD construct that every community is a neighbour does not mean that you should stop valuing some communities as practically closer than others, but it does mean: close isn’t just geographical, and please know our greatest risk may be a community you could never include whatever reconciliations each side tried. A general pattern rule also appears to be that rich communities need to work harder at respecting why extremely poor communities have had to adopt a historically fundamental belief to sustain life (and if we want to openly evolve these, then we need to narrow digital divides as part of the inter-community dialogue).

Whilst I would welcome any way you choose to answer this survey, you might start with the communities you are in and trust the most to love thy neighbour. If a few people contributed this listing, we could then ask: can we find ways to deepen collaboration waves across these communities? In particular, is there a shortlist of replicable projects emerging out of Catcomm’s activities that all these communities should simultaneously know of. Both so that project replication waved around our networks and so that more people wanted to sponsor hubs and Rio’s CASA as a pioneer community of our networked world.

References:
DeathofDistance
Changing to the Peoples Economics
Global Village Script
10 Commandments of Networked World
GoodwillWars

The impact of cafes (one hour open meetings but on particular crisis invitations - ie truncated open spaces) where invitations are past through all changemakers networks has never been higher. Especially in London as a model for the future of all open cross-cultural cities and villages as social sub-networks - a reconciliation of enduring urgency forced on us by 7/7 and the recognition that government over many years has failed to wholly integrate cultures at the grassroots in ways that people and local communities must take charge of.

This is such a huge subject that I neither have time nor space in this weblog medium to do justice to all the questions that live cafes have raised and how all the major crises of lost sustainability and distrust between different local and global groups of peoples are being made ever more conflicted by national government- whose monopoly rule over public service budgets in the most vital areas like safety, media, health, education, peace is disastrous when most of the challenges facing us are as world citizens (interlocal waves that are made worse wherever a Blair of Bush make decisions like a Canute) or wherever 2 party politics one-dimensionalises issues that need 360 degree diversity of transparent public dialogue

We will have a special series of cafes in the Islington area all of sept 11-15 - email me for a full calendar; and if you only read this after sept 15: I will be happy to after action debrief on you what we learnt from the dialogues and where next we will be restaging them. I will also be putting a lot of the learnings from our cafe series at these weblogs which are inter-related . chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

http://worldcitizen.tv - this looks as ways we citizens can perform communications experiments to show that huge investigative journalism contexts are being missed (biased out) by the BBC, and debates how to rectify this

http://worldentrepreneur.net which focuses on the source of good news out of America in terms of supporting the world's poorest with 30 years of mapping what social projects have resolved crises in one local community and can be replicated as interlocal franchises

http://worldeconomist.net pulls together these latest practical banks of learnings and connects this back with my father and my future history book on death of distance in 1984 which forecast that economics as a worldwide discipline would need transforming between 2005-2105, as much if not more than when James Wilson founded The Economist to keep questioning how economics could sustain peoples through the industrial revolution

We also has http://worldapprentice.com given that folk of every age need to start blueprinting a revolutionary new curricula and modalities of education for all our children if we are to time warp through sustainability's inconvenient truths. At time of writing I am still waiting to hear whether I will get accepted into the first wave of 2000 people being trained by Al Gore on how to present his inconvenient truth slides. This first wave rehearsals and start of an amazing change network takes place In Nashville towards the end of September
http://www.theclimateproject.org

The RSA's and Starbucks and BBC action network coffeehouse challenge in 2006 has been much more interesting in London this year as its been permitted to brew as a summer long festival rather being constrained to a one-month (May schedule)

CAFES & OPENSPACERACE 1 2
God bless all who host and attend cafes - seeds and real-people crossroads to the huge virtual networks that can be multiplied if each person's social network can be interfaced with each other person united in hi-trust and wish to raise questions about a global crisis context before we rush for any open answer

WEN Guidemaker's Observation web: WorldEconomist.net ...Delicious linking bookmarks

http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2006/20060825/default.htm
Remarks by Chairman Ben S. BernankeAt the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Thirtieth Annual Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, WyomingAugust 25, 2006
Global Economic Integration: What's New and What's Not?
When geographers study the earth and its features, distance is one of the basic measures they use to describe the patterns they observe. Distance is an elastic concept, however. The physical distance along a great circle from Wausau, Wisconsin to Wuhan, China is fixed at 7,020 miles. But to an economist, the distance from Wausau to Wuhan can also be expressed in other metrics, such as the cost of shipping goods between the two cities, the time it takes for a message to travel those 7,020 miles, and the cost of sending and receiving the message. Economically relevant distances between Wausau and Wuhan may also depend on what trade economists refer to as the "width of the border," which reflects the extra costs of economic exchange imposed by factors such as tariff and nontariff barriers, as well as costs arising from differences in language, culture, legal traditions, and political systems.
One of the defining characteristics of the world in which we now live is that, by most economically relevant measures, distances are shrinking rapidly. The shrinking globe has been a major source of the powerful wave of worldwide economic integration and increased economic interdependence that we are currently experiencing. The causes and implications of declining economic distances and increased economic integration are, of course, the subject of this conference.
The pace of global economic change in recent decades has been breathtaking indeed, and the full implications of these developments for all aspects of our lives will not be known for many years. History may provide some guidance, however. The process of global economic integration has been going on for thousands of years, and the sources and consequences of this integration have often borne at least a qualitative resemblance to those associated with the current episode. In my remarks today I will briefly review some past episodes of global economic integration, identify some common themes, and then put forward some ways in which I see the current episode as similar to and different from the past. In doing so, I hope to provide some background and context for the important discussions that we will be having over the next few days.
A Short History of Global Economic IntegrationAs I just noted, the economic integration of widely separated regions is hardly a new phenomenon. Two thousand years ago, the Romans unified their far-flung empire through an extensive transportation network and a common language, legal system, and currency. One historian recently observed that "a citizen of the empire traveling from Britain to the Euphrates in the mid-second century CE would have found in virtually every town along the journey foods, goods, landscapes, buildings, institutions, laws, entertainment, and sacred elements not dissimilar to those in his own community." (Hitchner, 2003, p. 398). This unification promoted trade and economic development.
A millennium and a half later, at the end of the fifteenth century, the voyages of Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and other explorers initiated a period of trade over even vaster distances. These voyages of discovery were made possible by advances in European ship technology and navigation, including improvements in the compass, in the rudder, and in sail design. The sea lanes opened by these voyages facilitated a thriving intercontinental trade--although the high costs of and the risks associated with long voyages tended to limit trade to a relatively small set of commodities of high value relative to their weight and bulk, such as sugar, tobacco, spices, tea, silk, and precious metals. Much of this trade ultimately came under the control of the trading companies created by the English and the Dutch. These state-sanctioned monopolies enjoyed--and aggressively protected--high markups and profits. Influenced by the prevailing mercantilist view of trade as a zero-sum game, European nation-states competed to dominate lucrative markets, a competition that sometimes spilled over into military conflict.
The expansion of international trade in the sixteenth century faced some domestic opposition. For example, in an interesting combination of mercantilist thought and social commentary, the reformer Martin Luther wrote in 1524:
"But foreign trade, which brings from Calcutta and India and such places wares like costly silks, articles of gold, and spices--which minister only to ostentation but serve no useful purpose, and which drain away the money of the land and people--would not be permitted if we had proper government and princes... God has cast us Germans off to such an extent that we have to fling our gold and silver into foreign lands and make the whole world rich, while we ourselves remain beggars." (James, 2001, p. 8) Global economic integration took another major leap forward during the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the beginning of World War I. International trade again expanded significantly as did cross-border flows of financial capital and labor. Once again, new technologies played an important role in facilitating integration: Transport costs plunged as steam power replaced the sail and railroads replaced the wagon or the barge, and an ambitious public works project, the opening of the Suez Canal, significantly reduced travel times between Europe and Asia. Communication costs likewise fell as the telegraph came into common use. One observer in the late 1860s described the just completed trans-Atlantic telegraph cable as having "annihilated both space and time in the transmission of intelligence" (Standage, 1998, p. 90). Trade expanded the variety of available goods, both in Europe and elsewhere, and as the trade monopolies of earlier times were replaced by intense competition, prices converged globally for a wide range of commodities, including spices, wheat, cotton, pig iron, and jute (Findlay and O'Rourke, 2002).
The structure of trade during the post-Napoleonic period followed a "core-periphery" pattern. Capital-rich Western European countries, particularly Britain, were the center, or core, of the trading system and the international monetary system. Countries in which natural resources and land were relatively abundant formed the periphery. Manufactured goods, financial capital, and labor tended to flow from the core to the periphery, with natural resources and agricultural products flowing from the periphery to the core. The composition of the core and the periphery remained fairly stable, with one important exception being the United States, which, over the course of the nineteenth century, made the transition from the periphery to the core. The share of manufactured goods in U.S. exports rose from less than 30 percent in 1840 to 60 percent in 1913, and the United States became a net exporter of financial capital beginning in the late 1890s.1
For the most part, government policies during this era fostered openness to trade, capital mobility, and migration. Britain unilaterally repealed its tariffs on grains (the so-called corn laws) in 1846, and a series of bilateral treaties subsequently dismantled many barriers to trade in Europe. A growing appreciation for the principle of comparative advantage, as forcefully articulated by Adam Smith and David Ricardo, may have made governments more receptive to the view that international trade is not a zero-sum game but can be beneficial to all participants.
That said, domestic opposition to free trade eventually intensified, as cheap grain from the periphery put downward pressure on the incomes of landowners in the core. Beginning in the late 1870s, many European countries raised tariffs, with Britain being a prominent exception. Britain did respond to protectionist pressures by passing legislation that required that goods be stamped with their country of origin. This step provided additional grist for trade protesters, however, as the author of one British anti-free-trade pamphlet in the 1890s lamented that even the pencil he used to write his protest was marked "made in Germany" (James, 2001, p. 15). In the United States, tariffs on manufactures were raised in the 1860s to relatively high levels, where they remained until well into the twentieth century. Despite these increased barriers to the importation of goods, the United States was remarkably open to immigration throughout this period.
Unfortunately, the international economic integration achieved during the nineteenth century was largely unraveled in the twentieth by two world wars and the Great Depression. After World War II, the major powers undertook the difficult tasks of rebuilding both the physical infrastructure and the international trade and monetary systems. The industrial core--now including an emergent Japan as well as the United States and Western Europe--ultimately succeeded in restoring a substantial degree of economic integration, though decades passed before trade as a share of global output reached pre-World War I levels.
One manifestation of this re-integration was the rise of so-called intra-industry trade. Researchers in the late-1960s and the 1970s noted that an increasing share of global trade was taking place between countries with similar resource endowments, trading similar types of goods--mainly manufactured products traded among industrial countries.2 Unlike international trade in the nineteenth century, these flows could not be readily explained by the perspectives of Ricardo or of the Swedish economists Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin that emphasized national differences in endowments of natural resources or factors of production. In influential work, Paul Krugman and others have since argued that intra-industry trade can be attributed to firms' efforts to exploit economies of scale, coupled with a taste for variety by purchasers.
Postwar economic re-integration was supported by several factors, both technological and political. Technological advances further reduced the costs of transportation and communication, as the air freight fleet was converted from propeller to jet and intermodal shipping techniques (including containerization) became common. Telephone communication expanded, and digital electronic computing came into use. Taken together, these advances allowed an ever-broadening set of products to be traded internationally. In the policy sphere, tariff barriers--which had been dramatically increased during the Great Depression--were lowered, with many of these reductions negotiated within the multilateral framework provided by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Globalization was, to some extent, also supported by geopolitical considerations, as economic integration among the Western market economies became viewed as part of the strategy for waging the Cold War. However, although trade expanded significantly in the early post-World War II period, many countries--recalling the exchange-rate and financial crises of the 1930s--adopted regulations aimed at limiting the mobility of financial capital across national borders.
Several conclusions emerge from this brief historical review. Perhaps the clearest conclusion is that new technologies that reduce the costs of transportation and communication have been a major factor supporting global economic integration. Of course, technological advance is itself affected by the economic incentives for inventive activity; these incentives increase with the size of the market, creating something of a virtuous circle. For example, in the nineteenth century, the high potential return to improving communications between Europe and the United States prompted intensive work to better understand electricity and to improve telegraph technology--efforts that together helped make the trans-Atlantic cable possible.
A second conclusion from history is that national policy choices may be critical determinants of the extent of international economic integration. Britain's embrace of free trade and free capital flows helped to catalyze international integration in the nineteenth century. Fifteenth-century China provides an opposing example. In the early decades of that century, the Chinese sailed great fleets to the ports of Asia and East Africa, including ships much larger than those that the Europeans were to use later in the voyages of discovery. These expeditions apparently had only limited economic impact, however. Ultimately, internal political struggles led to a curtailment of further Chinese exploration (Findlay, 1992). Evidently, in this case, different choices by political leaders might have led to very different historical outcomes.
A third observation is that social dislocation, and consequently often social resistance, may result when economies become more open. An important source of dislocation is that--as the principle of comparative advantage suggests--the expansion of trade opportunities tends to change the mix of goods that each country produces and the relative returns to capital and labor. The resulting shifts in the structure of production impose costs on workers and business owners in some industries and thus create a constituency that opposes the process of economic integration. More broadly, increased economic interdependence may also engender opposition by stimulating social or cultural change, or by being perceived as benefiting some groups much more than others.
The Current Episode of Global Economic IntegrationHow does the current wave of global economic integration compare with previous episodes? In a number of ways, the remarkable economic changes that we observe today are being driven by the same basic forces and are having similar effects as in the past. Perhaps most important, technological advances continue to play an important role in facilitating global integration. For example, dramatic improvements in supply-chain management, made possible by advances in communication and computer technologies, have significantly reduced the costs of coordinating production among globally distributed suppliers.
Another common feature of the contemporary economic landscape and the experience of the past is the continued broadening of the range of products that are viewed as tradable. In part, this broadening simply reflects the wider range of goods available today--high-tech consumer goods, for example--as well as ongoing declines in transportation costs. Particularly striking, however, is the extent to which information and communication technologies now facilitate active international trade in a wide range of services, from call center operations to sophisticated financial, legal, medical, and engineering services.
The critical role of government policy in supporting, or at least permitting, global economic integration, is a third similarity between the past and the present. Progress in trade liberalization has continued in recent decades--though not always at a steady pace, as the recent Doha Round negotiations demonstrate. Moreover, the institutional framework supporting global trade, most importantly the World Trade Organization, has expanded and strengthened over time. Regional frameworks and agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union's "single market," have also promoted trade. Government restrictions on international capital flows have generally declined, and the "soft infrastructure" supporting those flows--for example, legal frameworks and accounting rules--have improved, in part through international cooperation.
In yet another parallel with the past, however, social and political opposition to rapid economic integration has also emerged. As in the past, much of this opposition is driven by the distributional impact of changes in the pattern of production, but other concerns have been expressed as well--for example, about the effects of global economic integration on the environment or on the poorest countries.
What, then, is new about the current episode? Each observer will have his or her own perspective, but, to me, four differences between the current wave of global economic integration and past episodes seem most important. First, the scale and pace of the current episode is unprecedented. For example, in recent years, global merchandise exports have been above 20 percent of world gross domestic product, compared with about 8 percent in 1913 and less than 15 percent as recently as 1990; and international financial flows have expanded even more quickly.3 But these data understate the magnitude of the change that we are now experiencing. The emergence of China, India, and the former communist-bloc countries implies that the greater part of the earth's population is now engaged, at least potentially, in the global economy. There are no historical antecedents for this development. Columbus's voyage to the New World ultimately led to enormous economic change, of course, but the full integration of the New and the Old Worlds took centuries. In contrast, the economic opening of China, which began in earnest less than three decades ago, is proceeding rapidly and, if anything, seems to be accelerating.
Second, the traditional distinction between the core and the periphery is becoming increasingly less relevant, as the mature industrial economies and the emerging-market economies become more integrated and interdependent. Notably, the nineteenth-century pattern, in which the core exported manufactures to the periphery in exchange for commodities, no longer holds, as an increasing share of world manufacturing capacity is now found in emerging markets. An even more striking aspect of the breakdown of the core-periphery paradigm is the direction of capital flows: In the nineteenth century, the country at the center of the world's economy, Great Britain, ran current account surpluses and exported financial capital to the periphery. Today, the world's largest economy, that of the United States, runs a current-account deficit, financed to a substantial extent by capital exports from emerging-market nations.
Third, production processes are becoming geographically fragmented to an unprecedented degree.4 Rather than producing goods in a single process in a single location, firms are increasingly breaking the production process into discrete steps and performing each step in whatever location allows them to minimize costs. For example, the U.S. chip producer AMD locates most of its research and development in California; produces in Texas, Germany, and Japan; does final processing and testing in Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and China; and then sells to markets around the globe. To be sure, international production chains are not entirely new: In 1911, Henry Ford opened his company's first overseas factory in Manchester, England, to be closer to a growing source of demand. The factory produced bodies for the Model A automobile, but imported the chassis and mechanical parts from the United States for assembly in Manchester. Although examples like this one illustrate the historical continuity of the process of economic integration, today the geographical extension of production processes is far more advanced and pervasive than ever before. As an aside, some interesting economic questions are raised by the fact that in some cases international production chains are managed almost entirely within a single multinational corporation (roughly 40 percent of U.S. merchandise trade is classified as intra-firm) and in others they are built through arm's-length transactions among unrelated firms. But the empirical evidence in both cases suggests that substantial productivity gains can often be achieved through the development of global supply chains.5
The final item on my list of what is new about the current episode is that international capital markets have become substantially more mature. Although the net capital flows of a century ago, measured relative to global output, are comparable to those of the present, gross flows today are much larger. Moreover, capital flows now take many more forms than in the past: In the nineteenth century, international portfolio investments were concentrated in the finance of infrastructure projects (such as the American railroads) and in the purchase of government debt. Today, international investors hold an array of debt instruments, equities, and derivatives, including claims on a broad range of sectors. Flows of foreign direct investment are also much larger relative to output than they were fifty or a hundred years ago.6 As I noted earlier, the increase in capital flows owes much to capital-market liberalization and factors such as the greater standardization of accounting practices as well as to technological advances.
ConclusionBy almost any economically relevant metric, distances have shrunk considerably in recent decades. As a consequence, economically speaking, Wausau and Wuhan are today closer and more interdependent than ever before. Economic and technological changes are likely to shrink effective distances still further in coming years, creating the potential for continued improvements in productivity and living standards and for a reduction in global poverty.
Further progress in global economic integration should not be taken for granted, however. Geopolitical concerns, including international tensions and the risks of terrorism, already constrain the pace of worldwide economic integration and may do so even more in the future. And, as in the past, the social and political opposition to openness can be strong. Although this opposition has many sources, I have suggested that much of it arises because changes in the patterns of production are likely to threaten the livelihoods of some workers and the profits of some firms, even when these changes lead to greater productivity and output overall. The natural reaction of those so affected is to resist change, for example, by seeking the passage of protectionist measures. The challenge for policymakers is to ensure that the benefits of global economic integration are sufficiently widely shared--for example, by helping displaced workers get the necessary training to take advantage of new opportunities--that a consensus for welfare-enhancing change can be obtained. Building such a consensus may be far from easy, at both the national and the global levels. However, the effort is well worth making, as the potential benefits of increased global economic integration are large indeed.
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Footnotes
1. Data are from Historical Statistics of the United States (2006). Return to text
2. See, for example, Grubel and Lloyd (1975). Return to text
3. Maddison (2001) and International Monetary Fund data. Return to text
4. See, for example, Hanson, Mataloni, and Slaughter (2005). Return to text
5. Some of the key empirical papers in this literature are Doms and Jensen (1998); Criscuolo and Martin (2005); Corrado, Lengermann, and Slifman (2005); Bloom, Sadun, and Van Reenen (2006), and Kurz (2006). Return to text
6. See, for example, Bordo, Eichengreen, and Irwin (1999). Return to text
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DoD FutureFeeds May
Oxford- video Gore at World Championship of Social Entrepreneur 1 2; nets of yourgandhi: Lietaer presents on Living Earth to London's 500 "be the change" 3-day network event ; changemakers- May sees the first wave of the ultimate webjam on health for all projects

Governance Structure of A*B*C:
A)Sustainability*B)Transparency*C)Gravity of True Purpose

Q1 Is it possible to govern the A*B*C of the local and global networks of civil society without this molecular structure?

continue the debate and finetune the details at http://civil-society.blogspot.com or discuss with me at C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net (CM1)

To celebrate today's start of the Social Entrepreneur World Championships (University of Oxford hosted by Skoll Foundation) we are starting a survey and campign for the inauguration of social entrepreneur olympics. Why should the deep pursuits of social entrepreneurs get any less media coverage than sports? Which SE arenas are you most excited by? Where do you get a chance to spread the word on how humanity's future depends on these greatest of all collaboration games? Do mail us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you want any help in starting up a dialogue script on this (we're into our 22nd year of making connections)

chris macrae wcbn007@easynmet.co.uk

Breaking Views from ClubofLondon current #1 in collaboration knowledge city bookmarks (votes over 40 million)

This week saw world water day come and go with less than a ripple. Did Londoners know how they could have contributed more news on this around the world? no matter

Next week is arguably the biggest in the calendar for gifts to the world Londoners as number 1 collaboration knowledge city can start up, and make the next 6 years marathon of make poverty history connect all around the world

With Al Gore visiting the twin cities of London and Oxford, we cannot imagine a better time to Launch the Social Entrepreneur Olympics. The game is to have got 30 gravity pursuits of social entrepreneur world champions into the public consciousness by 2012 as much as the top 30 sports.

All we need is love and courage to cheerlead cross-cultural creativity's waves:

The Livingstone has got us off to a great start; he has declared there will be no sporting Olympics in London in 2012 unless they are carbon free - turn up the heat on every politician since only photosynthesis innovations can produce clean energy of that sustainability magnitude. Make sure all those who host Al Gore events debrief him as the clock to 2012 counts down

The lessons to be learnt from Make Poverty History from pop stars down can be an epiphany if University of Stars and the BBC turn their minds to the greater transparencies (eg end all country corruptions) needed if Make Poverty History is to be a reality network not just an image-making one

So that's 28 more gravity pursuits we need to celebrate around social entrepreneurs with as much gusto as the 20th Century hailed sporting stars

We are reminded of one Harrison Owen story I should tell because open spacing education is a social entrepreneur pursuit every family can stand up for whereas we cannot all help on the ground with projects in Africa or in the roofs that algae use to convert the sunshine into cleansing energy banks.

He was studying to be a priest around the Washington Dc area. It was a time when Martin Luther King was having a dream. Harrison can't recall quite how it happened but he was standing in a civil rights field in a crowd of African Americans - one tall lanky white man. The police were beginning to charge on the crowd and Harrison was feeling quite scared. That is until a 7 year old black girl came up to him - and said Mister will you hold my hand

Since that day, Harrison gave up the priesthood to the chagrin of most of his family. And is one of the handfuls of people who most interconnects conflict resolution facilitators around the world. Their networks criss-cross all religions that believe in golden rules of reciprocity such as so unto another what you want done unto you. They also connect mathematically - if Einstein is correct here at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com - to Gandhi as the greatest inventor of peaceful social entrepreneurial revolution that 144 years of The Economist's coverage of this most productive of all professions.

If some of this post makes sense to you, why not re-edit the parts you like and send it to the board of Governors of the BBC, and should you wish Tony Blair or another politician well with their legacy why not copy them in to. We the British people, not any of our political representatives own the BBC. We have invested way over 50 billion pounds in this corporation. On a personal note to all scots- may I ask whether you feel the inventor of television would feel proud of a television where every big debate is framed one dimensionally around short-term left and right rivals or whomever is looking fore a job with big business if the party does not turn out Trumps for their apprenticeship to network power.

It is high noon for the BBC with its 10 year licence determined by and for the people in the year of 2o06. Please could our world service be one of British Character we can feel both pride and humility in searching for. Please free your journalists for humanity to take a fearless lead in realising this open source script from 1984 , so that trust across peoples everywhere begins to flow through every documentary inquiry that has anything to do with world peace or nightly newscast on poverty's challenges through 2012 - and through these communications help the British to get to know 30 gravity pursuits of Social Entrepreneurs with as much joy and attention as the 30 sports it spend most public licence fees on. Hey when Brits helped to invent most of these sports we surely never intended they would take over from greater British realities of world service, through believing in CommonWealth principles and our Queen's higher order right to ask us as she did in her end of 2005 broadcast to unite in preventing globalisation from turning humanity on itself.

For the same of deeper democracy blossoming and connecting every coordinate on earth, you can also play a jigsaw mapping game aimed at sustaining 2 million global villages. Here's part of my family's tree which may open up some useful connections- what connections could your family tree or that of your peer networks open source. If you can make a "peer or family tree" picture why don't we play the mixed networking games of swap and snap. If we are going to turn around globalisation’s exponentials sustainably in time, we are all going to have to work with whatever grassroots community contexts up we can help each other navigate. No lead is too small as long as it is one you intend to gravitate transparently around as part of you lifelong learning mission. We need to help change children's education now so that the core human rights of freedom and happiness have a chance to breathe nature's clean waters, airs and energies everyone human beings sing her praises. Let's all turn up the courage through every family in the land and into wherever co-mentoring networks in internet space may take A B C D E F you

Open Space Racers and I have been discusing preneurial literature after the last 200 years. This is our future history briefings. I welcome being told of any highlights I may have missed with suggestions of how to link them in. Equally, if parts of what follow appeal: why not paste it and edit it to help you make a case for peoples taking back their productive freedoms or happiness. Whilst global accountants pesrist in ruling with the rotten maths of all machines are investments, all people are costs even now we are 20 years into service economy being the dominant dynamic of life and times, there seems a lot of taking back to do, as is futher eveidenced by all these downturning exponentials


Hi open space racers

My father and I have been working for 30 years on language as the great integration crisis of leadership as well as system theorists. Every professor needs a different term to copyright their fame and alumni class and journal (sub-discipline, sub-professional business case or startegic power)- we need to open up such intellectual chaining all over the world's web

My father's beginning in this was to publish Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist in 1976. Odd collaborators included Romano Prodi who hosted an Italian roundtable in venice where all Italy's great leaders of the day sung the chorus of 10 green bottles (administrative barriers Entrepreneurs need to open space through). If you think about it now whether people claim leadership or facilitation gravity to unleash wealth or societal goods, they are usually happy to call themselves either entrepreneur (if business audiences are listening) or social preneur - see eg this fantastic meeting in Oxford next month http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com

To celebrate our 30th birthday of ER, which is actually close on the 200th birthday of the founder of The Economnist (probably the world's first social preneur as his only editorial goals were to repeal corn laws and end capital punishment - both Victorian England's remaining slave chains) , we invite you:
to translate what every your system language is so that it connects with preneurs as a trojan horse for changing global economics
and to choose a place name clubof which we can weblog a debate of how your systemic method helps cross-culturally interrate any type of preneur (ideally 2 million club of global villages are needed!)

Above I have put one slide up which shows 200 years of preneurial language revolutions and since we are also mathematicians, we will need to slay the monopoly of tangible accounting which assigns 0 value to goodwill as a system flow and compounds maximum conflicts by separation every quarter. Knowing that's the fina system barrier is the only way that any system's theory can interface with changing leadership atop the wordl's biggest organsaitions be they corporate of government. As well as 30 years of ER scripts we have 22 years of death of distance scripts since tracking what webs will do has been my whole career and in 1984 I teamed up with my dad and a sci-fi writer to write a book on how 1984-2024 would challenge humanity to its wits end because becoming interconnected in obe generation was always going to be the biggest revolution our species had encountered ; and our species copes with revolutions in ways that spin either very good compound outcomes or in this case ones that will mean no 22nd century. So given this is just a language problem of eladership, why not open source the preneur word unless you can sugest one that can flow through more corridors of power without them knowing what confusion has open spaced

I know swapping the language you believe in most is diffciult. happy to try to help with any 1:1 or many:1 Q&A

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com/
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/
http://project30000.blogspot.com/

The Greatest Space Races in The Future of America
From Our Future History Reporters in Bethesda: On January 26, George Bush announced America's 2 greatest spaces races to be - #1 end addiction to petroleum economy; #2 do what you can do so youth loves to learn to explore sceince as much as sports. 20 Gathering Storm leaders had advised him on picking these 2 space races

valuecity asks: If you know the English game of Consequence once Bethesda has met Melbourne, the script ends with the world says:
we invite you to complete the sentence
eg since 1984 Death of Distance 3 2 1984 study groups:
let your open space races map how collaboration networks can interconnect to unite the most ethical & urgently valued innovations for all the peoples first and successful global economics will compound for both your cities and every global village in between

Why The world loves Melbourne & Melbourne loves The world
Across the worldwide maps of the Open Space Races, Our Collaboration Knowledge Clubs 1 2 know of no city whose youth and doctors have mobilised more change through meta-networks of goodwill than Melbourne
GRN
CollapsingWorld
Pathways
Networkers Lists

Active areas:
Tsunami Coastline Reconciliation by medics
HIV community reconcuilation: Africa & Asia
Youth Cross-Cultural greetings Movements : Australia, Japan and Beyond
Rights of Indigineous and Nomadic Peoples
Delhi.. Sarajevo .. palestine-Israel

Links with 5 Nobel Peace Laureates including:

Links with 200 NGOs and ethical movements including:

Members co-chair networks such as - Simpol- Japan ; Kyoto for all Cultures ....

Equally we all 00 0 1 2 3 4 5 are delighted to hear your nominations if you know of a city which has matched the breadth and depth of goodwill multipliers that the above links illustrate

http://addictionusa.blogspot.com/
We invite anyone from every place to connect with scripts and debates on how to do this. Here are some of our credentials, and why we'd love it if we all collaborate and just do this now. Since we have been working on this openly for 22 years we have a lot of deep contextual linkins if you will tell us where your contribution to ending this addiction (and passion to help people change) starts....
chris macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.ukHundreds of co-editing spaces at http://clubofcity.blogspot.com http://clubofvillage.blogspot.com
sustaining 22 years of DoD script and debates http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com
sustaining 30 years of ER scripts and open spaces http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com
timeline overview 31 Jan 2006- President Bush asks the world for help in State of Union address - how do we free USA from addiction to petroleum economy and make ethanol (or other green energy) a competitively priced gasoline within 5 years?
2005: dec 25 Queen Elizabeth 2 asks commonwealth: is globalsiation turning humanity on itself- reflecting DoD's 1984 forecast of 2005 as mankind's most dangerous year if we fail to chnage from economics of big power to the open peoples economics http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
Oct 2005: 21 Business leaders publish Gathering storm report - its 2 recommendations to the president free us from addiction to petroleum addiction, and invest in education of those who connect maths, engineering and innovation. One of the report'c co-chairs mentions the buzz phrase DEATH OF DISTANCE 5 times of Charlie Rose PBS interview of 1 Feb 2006http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11463.htmlhttp://www.nap.edu/execsumm_pdf/11463.pdf
December 1984 : Death of Distance is coined as main slogan of the 1984 future history co-authored by The Economist's Deputy Editor Norman Macrae, and his son Chris Macrae. Death of Distance network maps and dialogue circles have been open spaced ever since. In particular, our 1984 script for energy is reproduced below and helps to explain why hundreds of club of city and village blog correspondents are collaboratively linked in to the most exciting innovations of green energy we can find
page 145-146 of our 1984 book Sunlight is the fuel which sustains life on earth. The process by which plants extract energy from sunlight, using that energy to build up complex compounds from simper ones and thereby storing the energy which animals, including humans, use to grow and move and see and think is the life-process itself. We (human beings) have always exploited that life-process, but in the past we have only been able to do so by using living plants as our agents. We learned to cultivate them, develop them by selective breeding, and since the 1980s to meddle with their genes, but we have not yet learned to substitute something of our own making for the living plant. We have not found or made a more efficient substitute for chlorophyll itself outside the naturally-occurring factory which is the living cell.
Until we design our own systems which can deploy the energy of sunlight as efficiently as humble algae does, we humans have no real biotechnology of our own. We have many kinds of solar cells which can extract energy from the sunlight and store is as electricity or heat, but such devices are very crude indeed beside the technical sophistication and versatility of living plants.
We are making a determined effort to capture and use a greater fraction of the solar energy which falls upon the face of the earth every day. We are trying to make plants flourish in paces where at present they can only eke out the most precarious of existence. The ideal situation, however, would be one in which we did not need to work so hard to adapt existing plants to more hostile conditions. If we had our own artificial systems of photosynthesis we might exploit the desert sun ourselves, without using other organisms as intermediaries. Our ultimate ambition must be to make artificial photosynthetic systems more efficient than those which have evolved alongside side us throughout the history of life on earth. Then and only then will we be able to claim that we are technologically self-sufficient. In 2024, this looks as if it might be one of our children's tasks.

Over the last 5 years transparency is one of the big valuation words I have been mapping ; others include intangibles, trust-flow, sustainability investment- and their human relations systems constructs such as exponentials

what I will be trying to do here is pull together various perspectives on transparency beyond those that our transparency community portal at valuetrue.com speaks about every day

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Early 2004 Jotting
Transparency & Other Keywords of Value Multiplication Mapping
At the start of 2004, we had great hopes for Transparency across network opinion leaders - and we still have some preferences for its nuances to other context deep keywords such as Sustainability or Responsibility. For example many people's number 1 guru of Transparency - Don tapscott - sent us some words of encouragement. And I had been due to meet him in Toronto if an illness of my wife had not caused me to have to cancel my whole itinerary including presentation of a refereed paper on Transparency vauation at the McMaster annual congress (which tapscott was keynoting at)

What our intangibles-valuation and mapmaking see first in Transparency is the belief that the patterns of relationship systems of productivities and demands cannot be lived unless all involved have see- through maps; then that transparency is especially crucial as a dynamic in a world where markets are served by networks of organisations where silos between boundaries of organisations spin huge risks as is most obvious in a vital safety industry like Nuclear or Space Shuttle, but where one airline has also been lost because the it didnt know that its video games manufacturer supplier in first class had a reputation of hot (as in it may cause a short circuit and blow your plane up)

Transparency is also deeply lacking wherever politicians, lawyers and professionals entrusted with laws and other dynmaics that compound long-term consequences either deny the mathematics of compound relationships or are unaware of how to model it. Whether through blindness or deliberate manoeuvre, this profits from putting the quality of people's lives at risk. It is "Do Evil" of the sort the hippocratic oath sought top banish. A measure of our age's lack of civilisation is seen in every economist's blithe modelling of externalities - risks an industry passes on becuase it knows more about the true cost/risk than some less specialised society, and often covers up the information needed to minimise this systemic risk. Ditto when mass media stop covering stories with investigative journalism zeal because one of their ad clients might not like it. We thank god for the continuous work of socila lawyers in this regard, of which the increasingly international fame of the Canadian cult documentary thecorporation.com may be seen as one of 2004's bests for humanity.

In contrast to transparency, the popularity and scope of sustainability keeps on rising. It seems to be the word that is attracting those who pick unit funds p-including the aptly named Blood & Gore fund that Al Gore is associated with in Lodon, and the Frank Dixon analyst circle in New York.

Responsibility always was a word that played withy the devil in becoming the ad industry's bedmate in many shared campaigns between corporate and charitable cause. There is still something entirely right about the edict of Sir John Banham that any leader of a worldwide industry sector should map back what that sector more than any other is responsible to teh world for and insist on colaborating (even with competitors on communicatiosn ad eucation of all stakeholders so that risk is minimised. Compete over delivering benefits, collaborate over minimising risk. Why leaders regukarly adopt a different attitude is clearly explained in thecorporation.com, and makes this age of us one where big corporations are spinning diseases in proportion to their lack of transparency.

To end on 20045's hihest note, it turns out that the only cprporation to have conpounded anything like 30 billion of finacial growth in the alst 5 years as well as far greater value than that for all who interact around it is Google. Now if only all leaders would understand that doing goodwill business is also the only high profit sustaining way of business relationship modelling in an open networking age.

Qutopia @ Qatar - source founder Muftah Benomran:

Themes of Global Park
• Understanding
• Tolerance
• Sustainability
• Global leadership
• Peace building
• Cultural development
• Environmental concern
• Economic co-operation
• Innovative education
• Entertainment
‘Either we take hold of the future or the future will take hold of us’
Dr Patrick Dixon

Thematic Approach for Global Park
Overall Theme – Civilisation
• Celebration of the origins of civilisation in the Middle-East
• Focus on the major contribution of the Arab World to eastern + western cultures
• Use the rich associations of the names of kings and cities of the ancient and
medieval Middle-East throughout the resort
• Highlight world ‘firsts’ such as first city, Uruk - first writing - first book
- first written laws - first use of zero - first public health system...
• Use ‘firsts’ to show how these innovations impacted on the future of mankind
• Make Global Park a source of pride in the heritage and culture of the Arab World
and use this as a source for a better future

The People's World (TPW) - DoD's First Sighting - more reports welcomed!

October Inspiring Macraes - First News of The People's World

Para 1 is our understanding apologies if we've mindboggled parts of it

Rest comse from central TPW source Robert de Souza ( we'll relay questions to Robert if you wisc chris wcbn007@easynet.co.uk)

The People's World connects about 20 electronic & community interfaces together, all evolutionary and a few revolutionary. However, more important is the democratic participation model and the missionary wherewithal of why a hundred people converged on this specific sustainability investment. They were also inspired to provide a platform through which waves of luminaries from interdisciplinary fields most used to grassrots webs and system*system dynamics can be openly questioned. It's sponsors come from East & West united in the gift to the world they intend to serve.

The People's World is in the Transformation business and our mission is to empower people everywhere so that they can transform their lives for the better. This mission's intent to bridge old divides is the core driver in our ultimate objective of contributing to the emergence of Universal Humanity. We achieve our mission and objective through a new business model called Universalisation that:
1. Functions according to the Universal Law of Action-Reaction.
2. Connects with individual people, businesses, society, nature and the Universe as Universally interrelated elements.
3. Empowers people to realise their Universal capabilities and become their Universal selves.

Universalisation (cf china) transforms into real life personal, social, financial and environmental benefits by bringing businesses and consumers together in ways that engenders a democratic, life enhancing sustainable and environmentally conscious global community. For further details

DoD Feb/march 2006
March searches show that an Aug04 ecademy debate of ours on London as the most collaborative brand in the world has resurfaced in top 10 of 40 million bookmarks, meanwhile we have been doing a lot more work on why London's citizens are freer to collaborate as networkers than many countries - see this thread. The Death of Distance “networking economics” genre started in 1984 when I co-authored the third in a trilogy of works on Entrepreneurial Revoltion begun by my father's 1976 and 1982 surveys in The Economist. As we vote for the worldiwde impacts of different members of the family tree of entrepreneurial revolution, we are delighted to see Social Entrepreneurs 1 2 confirming our 1984 forecast that they would do the most in the world service of ssutainiung humanity over networking's make or break decade 2005-2015

DOD Special Double Issue- Jan06/Dec 05:
TAKING BACK ECONOMICS

Join in 30th birthday party of entrepreneurial revolution dialogue scripts: changeover to peoples economics celebrates 5 preneurial paradigm waves-launch of traffic lights rating systems of professional forums on corporate and democratic governance; Future Historians reach new wave of popularity with Friedman’s 1.3 million bestseller “The World is Flat” and declaration : green is the next red & white and blue: ask whether any local community can collaborate with China’s deepest innovation needs; Catalytic Communities takes the interlocal community preneurial centre to a new level of networking brilliance; Queen Elizabeth’s end of year report to friends of Commonwealth revolves one big cross-cultural resolution for 2006: Is Humanity turning on itself, what can all fellow citizens do to prevent badwill beating goodwill?; Club of London launches twin village network maps to connect the world’s 2 million rich & poor global villages: 5 profiling questions any rich citizen can ask to map twin village networks; Canada’s Jam invents higher model for intercitizen testimonies from 100 countries on single issues such as why are slums getting worse in big cities?; project30000 enters last 4 years of its humanitarian deadline initiated by value the human futures of networks in 1984

DoD Nov 05

Mapping where the world loves America;
AD: After Drucker - Knowledge at Work for the Life & Soul of Society;
How Microfinance saves community & culture;
Benchmarking organisational systems that returned 1000fold to their generation;
Future Crossroads now showing at THErebelECONOMIST

DOD Archives Oct 2005
Inspiration Logs : Oct 2005 Washington DC's leading Social Entrepeneur convenes Organisational Democracy Week - a 4 day gathering of 200 networkers which reconfirms how the service economy's greatest compound returns depend on intrapreneurial principles, how many under 35 professionals are commited to business models that profit by serving humanity. Cases presented confirmed the view of DoD's senior economics editor of valuation and governance in exponential and preneurial crisis.*** News to us is The Peoples World *** Cleansing photosynhetic energy and architecture at solaroof takes a giant leap forward with support from the new sustainability investment fund at Omniworldview *** Simpol makes first announcement of My World in 21 *** News to us is Qutopia -an Arabian futureworld destination for all peoples *** Indian Humanity Star Nandy is a Guest of Honor at Kyoto's Multiculture Harmony Forum

Part 1- INTRODUCING DoD Future History View from 1984 Death of Distance “networking” will involve one single productive generation –that of 1984-2024 - in changes of an unprecedented nature. By 2024 globalisation’s integration patterns will be compounding exponentials unstoppably towards goodwill or badwill ends. All our grandchildren will be interconnected. Their ends will be: Either win-win-win governance systems spinning unprecedented human rights, freedoms and happiness, or lose-lose-lose governance systems causing the darkest age ever to bind humanity and nature during which the extinction of most or all of our species is indicated. Our best protection may come from widespread iteration. Broadcast news needs to have a reflective capacity not just tempraneity; a desire to question that is at least as impactful as a projection of being certain about facts. Historically exponential consequences have usually caused societal decision-making to underestimate what will change in 7 years and over-estimate 3-year stretches. We need to be co-creative in permitting relationship flexibility and the passionate human curiosity that loves change provided it has a gravitational core that offers sufficient consistency for all hard-working families to enjoy healthy lives. Addictions are early warning signals of inadvertent apartheids or that our educational curricula, systemisations or democratic access are failing whole communities of people in connecting to make their greatest difference.

Part 2 - SOCIETY’S TRUST-FLOW NEEDS? What will it take for the greater human spirit to dance wherever we may be? To get started we can see that we need newly transparent maps, open debates mediated ahead of time - in which no woman or man is excluded from participation and simplicity of knowing what (r)evolution consequences are up for selection and propagation. Deep Trust and Transparency across boundaries must flow if sustainability of life is to be valued so as to interact relationship goodwill around every community up. Networks are systems times systems through which goodwill multiplication connects societies in upcurving exponentials of life, whereas badwill multiplication depresses and compounds waves of destruction across societies. 20th century orders distinguishing top-down and bottom-up - as if they are differnt to what will happen next to the whole - are most unhelpful for enabling networked peoples to make the most of every vantage point and cutting-edge experience curve. Laws that assume one party is always right and another is wrong will prove to be mkost unjust in many contexts of worldwide innovation.

Part 3 - PEOPLE ECONOMICS REVOLUTIONS? Costs that will come down, often exponentially, include; geographically connecting, instant replication of any purely logical code or data stream, emotionally intelligent collaboration, activating learning and whatever multiplies value in use instead of getting consumed up. So, national independence will increasingly fail to sustain/compound value if its exchanges over time exclude global village interdependence. Competition will be of no sustainable/compound value if it excludes collaboration (especially over the greatest risk or human rights responsibility specific to each global industry’s sector’s deepest context). Bubbles of media and closed property rights, tied historically to scarcity’s exchanges of consuming up, will be too costly for people and markets to bear unless they open up ample space for celebrating entrepreneurial revolutions designed around: action learning dynamics capable of multiplying value in use, open sourcing wherever the value of innovation waves more through webs than separate boxes, simultaneously heroising economics of abundance not scarcity at every local and social opportunity Opening up correspondence links all over the world through collaboration knowledge city and village

Part 4 - VALUING SERVICE & KNOWLEDGEABLE LEADERSHIP Expect and welcome active demands for a new faculty of leadership which celebrates why cultural and natural diversity catalyses purposeful human capabilities to explore goodwill everywhere as we reduce degrees of separation, help each other as netizens to find each other’s most suitable mentors through life, and through each other’s greatest capabilities to make a difference as well as the harmony of loving all of our species. Global village integration will be on a sustainable timeline if worldwide networks of people prove capable of linking in to 30000 open projects for humanity by 2010 give or take a year or too. What great compasses –Education? Healthcare? Photosynthetic energy? Ending extreme poverty and being born into an underclass? Deep cross-cultural conflict resolution? …? will yield sufficient projects for Death of Distance Networking to be be the best transformation ever known? Everywhere, we anticipate a lot to talk through, fearlessly, in public circles and networks of concern every year through this generation’s transformational crisis of being ever more interconnected.

Comment on how the following:
project30000
Death of Distance
ER100
Global Univerity of Poverty
ClubofCity - integrating grassroots crisis logs to map whole new world of humanity's innovations
civil society
gameschangers
asinworld
social-entrepreneur
media 1 2 3 and sustainability's other exponential reformers
or other interlocal networks and citizens organsiation might try alternative ways forward than the government's standard rough guide to making poverty history