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Evading The Antigen

by Dan Robles on August 31, 2012

Over the last 20 years or so, I have spoken all over the United States and many parts of the world about the idea that there may be a single and relatively easy way to correct flaw in market capitalism.

To fix this anomaly would be to correct many of the biases and divisions inherent in an otherwise functional social organization system.  The work of the Ingenesist project, of course, is to correct that flaw.

From past experience, I always get one of three reactions:

  1. Some people get it immediately, and engage deeply.
  2. Some people don’t get it and ignore completely,
  3. It triggers an antigen is some people and they attack it.

I learn a great deal from each type of response.  In fact, the vast majority of ideas in the Ingenesist Project come from hundreds of other people who have participated in one of these three ways.  The first two types are self-explanatory, this post is about the third.

The Flaw in Capitalism is well protected

The antigen is not just a person who disagrees with a fact or feature of our work.  They hold a deep visceral objection that is personal, emotional, physical and always disproportionate to the level, scope, or even the topic of conversation.

The problem, I have come to realize, stems from the suggestion that the Zertify knowledge inventory strategy seeks to improve the ability to match the supply and demand of knowledge assets in a community. The antigen does not believe that there could or should be a better broker than themselves.

If it’s not Broker, don’t fix it

My last two antigen events with The New Value Movement project were particularly interesting:

The first antigen was an author and lecturer makes their living selling an image of themselves in books and lectures and endorsements.  The second antigen was a person who runs an “accelerator” for start-up companies.  Each of these people broker information between entrepreneurs and funding, student and enterprise, audience and vision, etc.  It would not be in their best interest to decentralize information, knowledge, innovation or wisdom.

Historic perspective

Likewise, from our experience in the early days of NAFTA, it was not in the best interest of the Mexican government to give their engineers “wings” so that they could fly across the border instead of working for pennies in a foreign owned sweat shop.  Among corporations, we’ve worked with, it is not in management’s best interest to be cut out of the loop of information transmission.  Nor would it be in their best interest for other companies to be able to identify their employee’s knowledge assets.  The stark reality is that is where the value is…

It’s not about right and wrong

The point of this article is not to make the antigen wrong about their response –  it is quite natural and we have all done it. The nature of the antigen is competitive whereas the nature of the New Value Movement is collaborative – precisely the economic difference that we seek to communicate.  Knowledge is the real Gold in the economy and some people will try to contain it like money in a vault.

The Flaw in Market Capitalism is the antigen behavior/reaction itself – not the person demonstrating it.  Our challenge for the future will be to amplify mavens and community organizers to become better at connecting people in collaboration with each other while also identifying and redirecting the antigen response before it is activated.  Sort of like robbing a bank…

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The New Value Tool

by Dan Robles on June 5, 2012

The New Value Tool is a repetitive simulation of The Value Game (described herehere, and here) that may be used to determine in advance the true value that may be created when people interact with each other around a shared asset.

The Social Charter

This should not be too difficult to envision since The Value Game plays out daily in the modern corporation where workers acting in the best interest of the corporation (the shared asset) interact with each other in various departments to preserve the asset rather than consume the asset – this is how corporations create social value; through the employment of people and the social utility of their products.

Obviously, corporations that fail to fulfill their social charter likewise fail to sustain value creation in a community.  Those that do, tend to thrive in the Internet Age. The objective of the New Value Platform is to enable communities to organize, as do corporations, except without the burden of corporate governance or the priorities of outside investors.

Drag, Drop, and Dream

The New Value Tool is simple to use; just drag and drop from the Zertify Personal Knowledge Inventory into The Value Game and see what the Exoquant dashboard tells you about your simulation. It may take some practice at first to see how to make the numbers move, but soon it will become intuitive which scenarios create lots of New Value – and will likely sustain themselves in practice.  Scenarios that do not, will likely fail in a particular community and ought not be ventured to practice.

Community Algorithm

Exoquant provides a very simple algorithm relating the creation of data, information, knowledge, innovation and wisdom that govern the Value Game.  However, the weighting of these elements is a component of the “fuzzy math” that entrepreneurs bring to the game.  The empirical data resulting from the application becomes property of the players (community) as their “Secret Sauce” of value creation in their own uniquely optimum economic game.

On the path to a Social Currency

The New Value Tool May become an important system for analyzing existing ventures for optimum social value creation as well as predicting how collections of knowledge assets in a community can optimize their social value in collaboration with each other.  Eventually, the predictability of the outcomes will improve while diversification of projects will eliminate risks such that a social currency can be capitalized and securitized.

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The Value Game For University Outreach

May 31, 2012
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Over time, the University will become the physical “Search Engine” for data, information, knowledge, innovation, and wisdom in a community. The University can now deploy this wisdom to their own internal programs and curricula as well as becoming an external reference source for government, industry, and economic development.

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With Respect To Time

May 18, 2012
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Tweet Yesterday’s post “This is what I believe” I make the following 4 statements: Information is proportional to the rate of change of data with respect to time Knowledge is proportional to the rate of change of information with respect to time Innovation is proportional to the rate of change of  knowledge with respect to [...]

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This Is What I Believe

May 17, 2012
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My singular objective and greatest aspiration is to make “intangible” value tangible. I am confident that my children – and yours – will know what to do next.

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The Inevitable Next Economy

January 23, 2012
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The innovation age will emerge from the integration of tools developed by the knowledge age. So called “social media” is creating thousands of platforms upon which people reorganize themselves around interests, affinities, relationship, and commerce. As these tools integrate; that is, when the output of one tool becomes the input of another tool (and vice versa), a new economic paradigm will emerge.

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Control The Information And Control The Game

May 9, 2011
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A Value Game depends on the control of information. If someone else controls the information – they control the Value and there can be no game. Technology is deployed to the game – the game is not deployed to the technology.

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Can Advertisers Curate Themselves?

March 18, 2011
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The Value Game is applied to a new jet charter start-up called Social Flights and offers an opportunity for advertisers to become part of the experience of the traveller, rather than a distraction to everybody

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Tattle-Tale Economics

October 2, 2010
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Social Media has become another casualty of the broken financial system where people fight for artificial scarcity. It is no longer a means to empower and enlighten, it is becoming another means to exploit and oppress.

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Outsourcing Fail

September 28, 2010
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If you take away one of the components, the others become worthless. If you destroy one component, the entire structure could fail.

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The Investment Banker Vs. The Innovation Banker

September 22, 2010
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Together with the financial banking, these two system engage in the dance of the virtuous circle of innovation enterprise. Apart, they collapse into the swirling cesspool of eternal debt and infinite interest (pun intended).

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Why Two Gurus are Better Than Four

September 13, 2010

Marketers need to recognize the order and permanence of human evolution. Once our species started to walk upright on two legs, we never permanently returned to walking on all fours.

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Google CEO Warns of Information Armageddon

August 21, 2010

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns of the future consequences of social media and networks, and the vast amount of personal data that users put out there on the Web.

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Social Capitalism and The Culture of Data

June 30, 2010

Social media has also shown us what happens when the good data becomes the important information, which increases knowledge among the most people leading to increasingly effective innovation and changing the conventional wisdom about an increasing diversity of subjects. Social Capitalism will replace Market Capitalism simply because the culture is superior.

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Will Social Capitalism Replace Market Capitalism? (Parts 1&2)

June 21, 2010

This video describes a set of predictions for 2020 based on an entirely new form of capitalism whose velocity and voracity will take the world completely by surprise. Nothing is sacred and nobody is immune, not Facebook, not Google, not Wall Street, not even Governance itself….

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Knowledge Failure Is Business Failure

June 16, 2010

The top ten reasons for business failure are due to a lack of knowledge, not a lack of money. In fact, the lack of money is itself a failure of knowledge.

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Tangential Innovation Communities

June 14, 2010

Technology clusters serve what we call the tangential innovation market – or diversity innovation dynamics. Don’t worry if you have not heard of these things, I’m making this up as I go along.

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WIKiD Tools; A Futures Methodology

June 2, 2010

The forecasting methods that we are developing at the Ingenesist Project have become sufficiently vetted and organized that I have decided to formalize them for review by others. The “WIKiD Tools” method is fairly simple to describe and demonstrate, but be assured, it is a powerful method for predicting futures outcomes.

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Cory Doctorow In Seattle

May 18, 2010

Activist, Science fiction writer, and blogger Cory Doctorow spoke at in Seattle to a full house at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard. He performed a reading from his latest book, “For The Win”. Cory has an interesting sense of abstraction. He’ll spot a trend – or collection of trends – and extrapolates them into the future dutifully revealing all the complexities of the human condition.

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Enterprise Prediction Markets Summit

May 17, 2010

I’ll be speaking at the following event on June 4th. If you are in the area or blogging issues in this genre of ideas, let me know and drop by. Look up the other speakers and you’ll find an extraordinary group of visionaries preparing to make this PM Cluster Summit a truly enlightening event.

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Trading Money in for Value

May 14, 2010

Money is a convenient way to store and exchange value. Unless the world enters into a free trade agreement with Martians, Earth is the physical boundary of all existing value.

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Two Sides Of The Social Value Equation

May 7, 2010

There are two sides to the Social Value Equation – the creation of social value and the destruction of social value. There are countless examples where innovation destroys the value of prior technologies. There are also many instances where “progress”, perhaps in the form of a freeway or public structure, divides a community where strong social bonds once acted.

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Facebook Derivatives

May 5, 2010

Tweet It seems ironic that people are using Facebook to urge others to quit Facebook. If they take their own advice, they would no longer be able to give their golden advice to others. If we took their advice, we would not be able to heed the advice of others in this matter. Is Facebook [...]

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