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Symbionomics And The Space Between Things

by Dan Robles on November 18, 2010

Each stage of economic development in human history was derived from the prior stage by integrating the tools developed in that prior stage; The agrarian era, the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, the information era, the knowledge economy all followed this pattern.

Whatever happens next will be extremely interesting.

Today we are rapidly emerging era of human history where there is great cause for optimism. The tools developed from the Knowledge economy are truly remarkable.  For the first time in modern history, Value is not represented by things, it is represented by the space between things.

Symbionomics

The Symbionomics project is produced by world class film maker Alan Rosenblith and visionary Sustainable Community Developer, Jay Standish.  Their objective is to reveal the next great truism in the context of human economic systems. Please watch the following trailer and please support this essential project.  The hardest secret to keep is the truth.

LandingPage from alan rosenblith on Vimeo.

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Executing the News

by Dan Robles on November 11, 2009

Intl MarketThere are lots of questions about what constitutes news. Powerful editors decide what people read and what they don’t.  Journalists decide what is worthy of investigation and what is not.  Advertisers, special interests, lawyers and lobbyists defend the boundaries of inquiry against themselves or their industry.  All this plays out in a delicate dance of “crowd sourced censorship”  Whatever survives this gauntlet of execution becomes THE NEWS.

So, I took a snapshot of today’s news and ran it through the “History Test”:

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Social Currency; History Matters

November 3, 2009

History often provides clarity in the present. I was searching the term “Social Currency” and I found these two posts on a forum from all the way back in 2001. The authors are quite explicit in their expectations of social currency in their present and deep into the future.

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The Greatest Threat To Social Media

October 14, 2009

My first year in Mexico back in 1994, I thought to myself, “Wow, I can change everything”. The next year, I thought to myself, “Wow, I can’t change anything”. The third year, I thought to myself, “Wow, why would I want to change anything, Mexico is doing just fine the way it is”.

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The Winners of War Write the History

May 20, 2009

Even in the age of Social Media, the tenet holds fast; the winners of the war write the history. The purpose of education is greatly expanded and the value of education is multiplied many times over. The teacher will become the ultimate entrepreneur.

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