This guest post is written by Gerard Senehi, who was recently interviewed on the Quantum Revolution site as part of the Interviews with the Leading Edge series. This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Gerard Senehi is the founder of Open Future Institute, … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 3/8/13 – Milton Glaser
"If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment." - Milton Glaser … [Read more...]
Meet the Poet Laureate of the Quantum Revolution
David Tucker is the Poet Laureate of the Quantum Revolution. A Vermont-based poet, David is an insightful commentator on our internal and external cultural, spiritual and political milieu. Here is an introduction, from David. And then below the introduction, is his poem Yearning (Autobiography). Dear Reader, I was born in a desolate little oil town in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California. I was raised in a dysfunctional family. I became … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 3/1/13 – Nikola Tesla
“My brain is only a receiver. In the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know it exists.” - Nikola Tesla … [Read more...]
How Much Water Do You Use?
Courtesy of: Loch Ness Water Gardens How much water do you use (and how much water can you save)? Check the above infographic to see, and then consider this: We all know of the concept of peak oil, the understanding that there is only a finite amount of oil, and that one day it will peak and then begin to taper off. But there may be a bigger problem with water, and it's … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 2/18/13 – Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke … [Read more...]
Open Future, Liquid Networks and Crowdfunding
As I've stated in my previous articles on an open future, Towards an Open Future and 12 Trends - Now and Future - of an Open World, creating a more open world is truly the path towards creating a better tomorrow. A more open world is the hope of the future - it is the key to a more enlightened future, one that can allow us to live more peacefully with one another in a very sustainable way. A more open future is predicated on people being more … [Read more...]
12 Trends – Now and Future – of an Open World
In my previous article, Towards an Open Future, I discussed the two type of systems that operate in the world: Open systems and closed systems. The hope for the future lies in open systems, and that is where the potential for the success of the brewing Quantum Revolution also lies. In that article, I said how closed systems are rigid and mechanistic, and continue doing the same thing and operating in the same way, even if the approach has proven … [Read more...]
Quotes of the Day: 1/2913 – Open Systems
"I think there should be an open system, period...I think education should be free. And there are a lot of ways of organizing it, but it should be geared to the ideal of helping each person, each student, achieve their goals in the best way." - Noam Chomsky “The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a … [Read more...]
Towards an Open Future
“There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics, I refer to the infinite.” – Jorge Luis Borges, in Avatars of the Tortoise Let's start with a basic supposition: open systems succeed, while closed systems fail. What do I mean by a system? A system is anything comprised of complexity: it can be one single individual or a group, forming a collective or organization. An … [Read more...]
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