Author: World Mind Network
Dateline: Geneva, Switzerland (GENEVA, Switzerland) | Tue, 19 Oct 2010
A R T I C L E:
The Future Research Group of the World Mind Network, a think tank composed of scholars from the Silicon Valley, Oxford, Harvard, Rutgers, the Universities of Tokyo and Lausanne, and Kansas State University, says that popular Internet and Smart Phone phenomena which have emerged in the last five years represent a quantum leap in the evolution of Homo Sapiens, comparable to far earlier transformations in hominid history.
According to the network's co-director Yannick Wittgenstein, this has enormous implications for business, culture, government, education, the Environment, and sustainability-- and yet almost no one realizes this, because we're too close to the situation to view it comprehensively.
Those who do realize it will be able to change society in days or weeks rather than years, because the power of today's Web to connect brains instantly ensures that ideas can be refined, shared, experimented with, improved, and perfected at warp speed, by hundreds of people in dozens of countries.
A similar transformation occurred two million years ago when our ancestors experienced a major increase in brain size, associated with the appearance of the first tool-making humanoid, Homo Habilis.
The wedding of a powerful brain with infinitely capable hands proved to be a genetic advantage that would eventually lead our ancestors to out-compete all other primates.
But we, according to the researchers, have been given tools in the last five years which are far more potentially revolutionary:
Through social networking sites like Facebook we can spread knowledge and wisdom around the world instantly at no cost.
Through Skype we can talk and even video conference with most people around the world for almost nothing.
Through blogs we can float our opinions and determine their relative value against a myriad of other viewpoints.
Through YouTube we can access complex video and audio content about any subject immediately and at no cost. And we can easily create videos which will be used the same way by others.
Through Wikipedia we can shape the way knowledge is presented, co-editing with thousands of other interested parties.
Through Google and other search engines we can answer millions of questions with access to the world's best experts on anything.
Through Twitter we can know the most intimate thoughts of millions, almost as soon as they utter them.
Through Smart Phones and their 200,000 apps we can-- well, we can do 200,000 things, most of which have never been possible in human history.
We are a species which has been gifted with the powers of comic book super heroes. But for the most part we don't act like it.
Why do most human beings not sense the enormous power of their new tools?
For one thing, according to Wittgenstein, most web technologies are marketed as toys.
Also, the early adopters of Web 2.0 have largely been young people, who tend to be more interested in entertainment than in changing the world. And the trivial and in some cases harmful uses they make of the new technologies do not inspire their elders to explore further.
Additionally, very few people of any age consistently ask what the new tools can do IN COMBINATION.
Right now, World Mind Network students are using a Google map which plots emergency-related text messages from the flood-ravaged areas of Pakistan to speed relief supplies to where they're needed. Others are turning unused cell phone minutes into legal tender for a Kenyan ICT center. Still others are creating new research paradigms for universities, based on a social networking model rather than the old publish or perish model.
Says the World Mind Network's research director Sarah Mendel, "We live in exciting times. And we have the power to make them far more exciting, if we only demand the most from the powerful technologies around us."
For more information contact worldmindnetwork@gmail.com .
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Dateline: Geneva, Switzerland (GENEVA, Switzerland) | Tue, 19 Oct 2010
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “The Future Research Group of the World Mind Network, a think tank composed of scholars from the Silicon Valley, Oxford, Harvard, Rutgers, the Universities of Tokyo and Lausanne, and Kansas State University, says that popular Internet and Smart Phone phenomena which have emerged in the last five years represent a quantum leap in the evolution of Homo Sapiens.”
A R T I C L E:
The Future Research Group of the World Mind Network, a think tank composed of scholars from the Silicon Valley, Oxford, Harvard, Rutgers, the Universities of Tokyo and Lausanne, and Kansas State University, says that popular Internet and Smart Phone phenomena which have emerged in the last five years represent a quantum leap in the evolution of Homo Sapiens, comparable to far earlier transformations in hominid history.
According to the network's co-director Yannick Wittgenstein, this has enormous implications for business, culture, government, education, the Environment, and sustainability-- and yet almost no one realizes this, because we're too close to the situation to view it comprehensively.
Those who do realize it will be able to change society in days or weeks rather than years, because the power of today's Web to connect brains instantly ensures that ideas can be refined, shared, experimented with, improved, and perfected at warp speed, by hundreds of people in dozens of countries.
A similar transformation occurred two million years ago when our ancestors experienced a major increase in brain size, associated with the appearance of the first tool-making humanoid, Homo Habilis.
The wedding of a powerful brain with infinitely capable hands proved to be a genetic advantage that would eventually lead our ancestors to out-compete all other primates.
But we, according to the researchers, have been given tools in the last five years which are far more potentially revolutionary:
Through social networking sites like Facebook we can spread knowledge and wisdom around the world instantly at no cost.
Through Skype we can talk and even video conference with most people around the world for almost nothing.
Through blogs we can float our opinions and determine their relative value against a myriad of other viewpoints.
Through YouTube we can access complex video and audio content about any subject immediately and at no cost. And we can easily create videos which will be used the same way by others.
Through Wikipedia we can shape the way knowledge is presented, co-editing with thousands of other interested parties.
Through Google and other search engines we can answer millions of questions with access to the world's best experts on anything.
Through Twitter we can know the most intimate thoughts of millions, almost as soon as they utter them.
Through Smart Phones and their 200,000 apps we can-- well, we can do 200,000 things, most of which have never been possible in human history.
We are a species which has been gifted with the powers of comic book super heroes. But for the most part we don't act like it.
Why do most human beings not sense the enormous power of their new tools?
For one thing, according to Wittgenstein, most web technologies are marketed as toys.
Also, the early adopters of Web 2.0 have largely been young people, who tend to be more interested in entertainment than in changing the world. And the trivial and in some cases harmful uses they make of the new technologies do not inspire their elders to explore further.
Additionally, very few people of any age consistently ask what the new tools can do IN COMBINATION.
Right now, World Mind Network students are using a Google map which plots emergency-related text messages from the flood-ravaged areas of Pakistan to speed relief supplies to where they're needed. Others are turning unused cell phone minutes into legal tender for a Kenyan ICT center. Still others are creating new research paradigms for universities, based on a social networking model rather than the old publish or perish model.
Says the World Mind Network's research director Sarah Mendel, "We live in exciting times. And we have the power to make them far more exciting, if we only demand the most from the powerful technologies around us."
For more information contact worldmindnetwork@gmail.com .
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High School Drop-Out Says Market has Peaked
Dateline: Wall, New Jersey (WALL, N.J.) | Mon, 22 Nov 2010
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: “Peter Grandich, dubbed the 'Wall Street Whiz Kid' on national television for calling the 1987 'Black Monday' market crash, has been making major top and bottom calls for 26 years. Now, Grandich has his bear suit back on, and is calling for a new top.”
A R T I C L E:
Peter Grandich, dubbed the "Wall Street Whiz Kid" on national television for calling the 1987 "Black Monday" market crash, has been making major top and bottom calls for 26 years. Now, Grandich has his bear suit back on, and is calling for a new top.
On November 2 Grandich announced on his blog www.grandich.com: "I've been targeting the 11,300 area on the DJIA and Election Day in the U.S. as a point in time when the 'steroid-craze' rally meets horrific economic, political and social fundamentals and no amount of 'QE' easing can provide enough legs to take this rise much further. My yellow alert is now turning red. The time has come to put the bear suit back on and suggest bearish strategies. Bearish call spreads on major indices and liquidation of most non-metals related equities now appear appropriate in this person's eyes."
Read Grandich's November 2, 2010 Alert "Grandich Returns to the Bearish Camp" at http://www.grandich.com/2010/11/grandich-returns-to-bearish-camp-430pm-est/ .
Despite no high school education or advanced degrees, Grandich has made a career out of stunningly-accurate calls. In addition to calling for the '87 crash, on the very next day he called for a new, all-time high within two years. Since then, he has made numerous accurate forecasts for the stocks, precious metals, currencies and more.
Just two days from the ultimate top in October 2007, he made his most dire forecast ever calling for readers to sell everything but precious metals-related equities and to short the U.S. stock market. (Read Grandich's October 14, 2007 Alert "Man Your Battle Stations" at http://www.grandich.com/2007/10/grandich-special-alert-man-your-battle-stations/ ).
In March 2009, just one day before the market actually bottomed, he said he was removing his bear suit and predicted the greatest bear market rally of all-time. (Read Grandich's March 6, 2009 Alert "Bye, Bye Permabear Camp - It's Been Great" at http://www.grandich.com/2009/03/special-alert-bye-bye-permabear-camp-its-been-great-1100pm-est/ ).
About Peter Grandich:
Though he never finished high school, Peter Grandich entered Wall Street in the mid-1980s with no formal education or training and within three years was appointed Vice President of Investment Strategy for a leading New York Stock Exchange member firm. He would go on to hold positions as a Market Strategist, portfolio manager for four hedgefunds and a mutual fund that bared his name.
His abilities have resulted in hundreds of media interviews including Good Morning America, Neil Cavuto's Your World on Fox News, The Kudlow Report on CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Financial Post, Globe and Mail, US News & World Report, New York Times, Business Week, MarketWatch, Business News Network and dozens more.
Grandich is the founder of Grandich.com, Grandich Publications, LLC, and is editor of The Grandich Letter which was first published in 1984. On his internationally-followed blog, he comments daily about the world's economies and financial markets and posts his views on social and political topics. In his first year, Grandich's blog had more than one million views. Grandich also provides a variety of services to publicly-held corporations on a compensation basis.
He is the also the founder of Trinity Financial Sports & Entertainment Management Co. (www.TrinityFSEM.com), a firm with a Christian perspective which he started in 2001 with former NY Giant and two-time Super Bowl champion Lee Rouson. Peter Grandich is a member of the National Association of Christian Financial Consultants, and a long-standing member of The New York Society of Security Analysts and The Society of Quantitative Analysts.
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