Evolving Collective Intelligence by Tom Atlee

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Candida International

What Does MHRA Stand For??

Bono and Bush Party without Koch: AIDS Industry Makes a Mockery of Medical Science

Profit as Usual and to Hell with the Risks: Media Urge that Young Girls Receive Mandatory Cervical Cancer Vaccine

 

Health Supreme

Multiple sclerosis is Lyme disease: Anatomy of a cover-up

Chromotherapy in Cancer

Inclined Bed Therapy: Tilt your bed for healthful sleep

 

Share The Wealth

Artificial Water Fluoridation: Off To A Poor Start / Fluoride Injures The Newborn

Drinking Water Fluoridation is Genotoxic & Teratogenic

Democracy At Work? - PPM On Fluoride

"Evidence Be Damned...Patient Outcome Is Irrelevant" - From Helke

Why Remove Fluoride From Phosphate Rock To Make Fertilizer

 

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Islanda, quando il popolo sconfigge l'economia globale.

Il Giorno Fuori dal Tempo, Il significato energetico del 25 luglio

Rinaldo Lampis: L'uso Cosciente delle Energie

Attivazione nei Colli Euganei (PD) della Piramide di Luce

Contatti con gli Abitanti Invisibili della Natura

 

Diary of a Knowledge Broker

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Greenhouses That Change the World

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Thoughts about Value-Add

February 12, 2005

Dystopias as Collective Intelligence

My friend Kenoli Oleari introduced me to Neil Postman's fascinating comparison of Orwell's and Huxley's dystopias.

I like to think that through dialogue and deliberation we could navigate between them, co-creating something decent, meaningful and sustainable together, not sliding over either precipice. I like to think that in a wise democracy, thoughtful prophetic fiction like Orwell's and Huxley's would be a useful warning, part of the society's collectively intelligent capacity to reflect into the future..

 


posted by Tom Atlee on Saturday February 12 2005
updated on Saturday September 24 2005

URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/tom_atlee/2005/02/12/dystopias_as_collective_intelligence.htm

 

 

 


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