[ba-unrev-talk] Our Fragile World: Challenges, Opportunities forSustainable Development

["John J. Deneen" <jjdeneen@netzero.net>]

       Henry,
 
 Regarding:
 
 
>    
> Personally I feel that digital augmentation by itself is not enough.
> There need also be attention paid to values education and the stiffening
> of spine in times of calamity. This is a lesson I learned from
> reflecting on the years Holland lived under Nazi occupation. I did
> express myself about that in this forum. Also, two years ago, I tried to
> get support from a college where I used to teach to organize a getting
> together of educators to have an initial look at this issue. I was then
> motivated during Engelbart's Colloquium in 2000 when two of his guest
> speakers addressed the coming end to the supply of oil on a 40-year
> horizon. Running out of non-renewable resources promises some mean
> struggles for what is left of an ever scarcer supply.
>  
 The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Center of Information Technology 
Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) on behalf of UC Berkeley are 
sponsoring an Ethics 
                         and the Impact of Technology on Society Workshop 
(by invitation only) on 4/5/03.
 
 The        final report containing the workshop proceeding will be posted 
here. 
 
 In the meantime, I found many interesting pointers from the list of recommended 
links, 
including a paper about "Strategies 
of Knowledge Integration" that reinforces your assertion made above
by concluding: "Ultimately, knowledge integration should be understood
as a social process".
 
 Another, interesting pointer "World's oil & gas wells running
empty: Severe social impacts expected" reinforces Ed Kinderman's presentation - State
 of the world's energy supply  and Hew Crane's presentation: Second
 set of considerations about the state of the world's energy supply during 
Engelbart's Colloquium in 2000.
 
 - John
 "The milk of disruptive innovation doesn’t flow from cash-cows".
      – David S. Isenberg