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We're running out of memory.

I don't mean computer memory. That stuff's half-price at Costco these days. No, I'm talking about human memory, stored by the gray matter inside our heads. According to recent research, we're remembering fewer and fewer basic facts these days.

This summer, neuroscientist Ian Robertson polled 3,000 people and found that the younger ones were less able than their elders to recall standard personal info. When Robertson asked his subjects to tell them a relative's birt… Continue

Chris Macrae started this research in 2005 with a 40 person open space convened in London and has published some results at places such as these:

4000 guides have been printed and handed out - you can download you own in most cases it expects you to print the file double sided and then print in half- we are happy to offer $500 bursarships for open source content and if you have 500 people to hand out a communal guide to.

10000 dvds are being circulated around the number 1 collaboratine network… Continue

Conceptual economy is a term describing the contribution of creativity, innovation and design skills to economic competitiveness, especially in the global context.

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, recognized the role of conceptual output as early as 1997 in a speech at the University of Connecticut when he said "The growth of the conceptual component of output has brought with it accelerating demands for workers who are equipped not simply with technical know-how, b… Continue

This paper clarifies Personal Knowledge Management, and its seven information skills, as a framework for the education of those preparing for knowledge work roles in global business and management.

The seven information skills highlighted are:
(1) retrieving information;
(2) evaluating information;
(3) organizing information;
(4) collaborating around information;
(5) analyzing information;
(6) presenting information;
(7) securing infor… Continue

Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential.

So come and join and hel… Continue