From: "Bernie DeKoven" <bernie@dekoven.com>
My friend Dave Winer who is attending the Davos conference in Switzerland
has a serendipitous story to relate in his recent mailing.
"I wasn't sure that Clinton and I were talking about the same thing
until Schwab asked him a question after his speech. "Mr. President,"
Schwab said, "do you have a message for the business leaders here at
Davos?"
After a long pause he said "Find a shared vision." He expounded,
telling the story of trade negotiations and economic imbalances
between developed and developing nations. I felt he was stating the
problems of the Internet industry using terms that made sense to him.
My interpretation: Without a shared vision, something we agree on,
growth can never really happen. As soon as a layer of progress is
complete, the wars begin, and years of stagnation follow. This is the
cycle of the software-slash-Internet industry, and it looks
(thanks to patents, more on that later) as if we might be about to loop
around once again. "
I guess our task, then, as we go about building the technical
infrastructure, might be to put it to use in the name of vision sharing.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniela U.Trocan [mailto:dtconsult@netscape.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 9:57 AM
To: unrev-II@onelist.com
Subject: [unrev-II] Outpost Communities
From: Daniela U.Trocan <dtconsult@netscape.net>
If we continue to nvent the atomic bomb with cavalier disregard for the
consequences, they will be dire for as long as the creators don't take
responsibility for the impact of their creations. If anything, the global
village environment should've made it clear to each and all that we are
indeed
connected and responsible for the whole lot of us.
I do happen to agree with Doug's view of high performance 'outpost' leading
us
into the future and out of the current threatening stuation [created by our
lack of perspective as a community, I might add] in just the nick of time to
escape our own extinction [through moral irresponsibility], quite possibly.
I find it very excited that we are, in fact, on the verge of unleashing the
necessary technology. But before What I would like to insist on the moral
dimension of Doug's attempt to bring people and organizations together in
the
bootstrapping effort. To me it's a matter of doing things in the most
effective way: any and all technological advances will be quite meaningless
if
humanity manages to self-distruct anyway. It follows that it would be a
complete waste of time and effort to pursue any, in the absence of
synchronous
constant attention given to our co-evolution as a constructive society as
well.
What I propose then, is that the technological efforts ahould be
bootstrapped
with the advances of high performance teams/organizatons working in the
areas
of human evolution on the 'soft' organizational requirements. What kind of
people will those be who will be capable of wielding all the technological
progress that's been talked about at the colloquium for progerss not for
personal instant gratification? For co-evolution not for war (which bringe
huge almost instanteneous profits)? So far the conclusion of the discussion
here, on our list, seems to have been that the answer cannot be found in
today's corporations.
I propose that any effort of finding technological answers to our problems
as
a global society should be accomponied by an equal effort to develop
techniques of evolving our conscience / self-awareness / spiritual
dimension.
Daniela U. Trocan
Business Coach
www.b-coach.com
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