In the Western World many people play the Analytic Game. The Analytical Game resolves the conflict between the Facts of the Senses and the Models, Rules and Norms of the Human Prediction System, the Expectation (often called Thinking). The complementary Game is what Will McWhinney and his friend Burkhard Sievers, called the Game that Creates New Games. [...]
About the Infinite Game
By February 7th, 2008, underAbout Ethical Dilemma’s
By February 3rd, 2008, underMoral Dilemma’s are situations where two or more moral rules are in conflict. You have to make a choice between two or more actions you don’t want to perform because Ethics forbid you to do so. A famous example was formulated in Book I of Plato’s Republic, Cephalus defines ‘justice’ as speaking the truth and [...]
Prepare for a New Ice Age
By December 26th, 2007, underGlobal Warming has become a major issue in politics and business. There is a growing consensus that the huge changes that are taking place in the World Climate is caused by the emission of CO2. There are scientists who are telling a different story. They are convinced that the change in climate is caused by [...]
About Mash-Ups
By December 20th, 2007, underAnother new hype-term is the Mash-up. A Mash-up is a new service, that combines functionality or content from existing sources. In the “old’ days of programming we called a Mash-up a Program (now Service) and the parts of the Program Modules. Modules were reused by other Programs. We developed and acquired libraries that contained [...]
How to Make Sure that Everybody Believes what We are Believing: About Web 3.0
By December 20th, 2007, underThis morning I discovered a new term Web 3.0. According to the experts Web 2.0 is about “connecting people” and Web 3.0 is about “connecting systems”.
Web 1.0 is the “good old Internet”. The “good old Internet” was created by the US Army to prevent that people and systems would be disconnected in a state of War with the Russians. Later Tim Berners Lee and the W3C added a new feature “hypertext”, connecting documents by reference.
Are we Heading at a Total Collapse of all Systems?
By December 17th, 2007, underWhen I finished my blog about the Great Depression in 1929 I wanted to write about the Great Depression of 2008. I was convinced this would happen again. I am not the only one. Many known and unknown people are warning about a worldwide economic disaster (a deep recession). The Central Banks are pumping money [...]
