Category Archives: Connecting Our Conversations

Mapping Our Way to the Next Civilization

Posted on October 15, 2015 by George Pór

This blog started as a reply to a post by a friend of mine on Facebook. Bret Warshawsky wrote: “How about some love and co-creation? We’re beginning to map ‘Golden Innovations’ and need your help! When you see a post … Continue reading →

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Living into the Master Code of the Human Hive

Posted on October 16, 2012 by George Pór

I am because we are. I am writing this blog because a friend called my attention to Blog Action Day. I’m a blogger because somebody invented the blog and Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. I am who I … Continue reading →

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The confession of a recovering radical connectionist

Posted on September 25, 2012 by George Pór

I’m a recovering a radical connectionist. I used to believe that the scope of the we-space and the depth of our CI will increase as more of us link up into the nervous system of the emergent Civilization 2.0. I … Continue reading →

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Conversation transcript-> mindmap-> semantic web-> sane sentient AI

Posted on June 27, 2010 by George Pór

Imaginal cells in the protoplasm, from which the new civilization is emerging, discover the current state of their fluid identity, by being engaged in generative conversations with one another.  When we collaborate using the currently available tools, we are able … Continue reading →

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What can dynamic views (in mapping emergent systems) enable?

Posted on June 14, 2010 by George Pór

In a comment to A tool for mapping the future as it’s emerging, Glisten wrote: > The visual mapping of an evolving system is not a trivial affair. If we create a map of our “current state” we only provide … Continue reading →

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Message to Venessa Miemis about her “Pay It Forward Business Model”

Posted on June 8, 2010 by George Pór

Venessa wrote a fascinating blog entry  on “A Pay It Forward Business Model [in transition to a new global society].” It prompted the following open message to her. Dear Venessa, Your “pay it forward” model is hugely inspiring in all of … Continue reading →

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From hardware-based sensors of the physical to software-based sensors of the social

Posted on September 20, 2009 by George Pór

Quotes in this blogpost are from “Ecological Computing,” by John Seely Brown and Feng Zhao. Confluences and their combined confluence Looking back at the first decades of the third millennium, humans will see them as the era of the Great Transition, an … Continue reading →

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The CI deficit of the dominant way of organizing work

Posted on September 17, 2008 by George Pór

Philippe Dancause, a Canadian practitioner of various social technologies of collective intelligence shared some insights of great clarity in his blog that I roughly translated as follows. “In most organisations, there are very few real forums that allow the emergence … Continue reading →

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” If our world is a living system of systems”

Posted on October 24, 2007 by George Pór

Sofia Bustamante wrote: > If our world is a living system of systems (holistically embedded), then the base concept of ecology must have biological connotations… I love both the depth of her insight and what it inspired me to see: … Continue reading →

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Collective intelligence as integral capacity

Posted on February 7, 2007 by George Pór

Tom Atlee wrote in an email message: > A capacity usually involves both being and doing. It manifests > through doing, but usually requires some form of being. > > Intelligence manifests largely through solving problems. If you > can’t … Continue reading →

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