If you didn’t get a chance to get to all the sessions this year, Recordings are available below. February 2023 – Jeff Cherrington – Quantum Computing and Implications on Cryptography for Data Privacy & Protection https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/l-wiuJDgKobG9wiHHAy-jQz6GMGg2DT61vvaNFfeozCOumz2bCLDA4VSFtOXBQ.hAUseNhZ1WksM8IH March, 2025 – David Petering – Climate Change – What We must Do About… Read more »
A world order in transition exacerbated by growing Western domestic political and cultural intransigence We all know about the International Order that we put into effect after WWII. With it we established the rules, the organizations and the management of that process. Well, it is 2025, some 75 years later,… Read more »
We need clean water for life. AND Too much water leads to disaster. Water ContaminationWith massive efforts to clean up our waterways in the 60’s and 70’s many people assumed things were improving, especially as industrial facilities were no longer allowed to dump waste. Unfortunately, it seems every time we… Read more »
November – Population Growth and/or Migration – Affeldt Discussion of the impact of Population Growth on wicked problems such as shortages of food, habitable land, energy and raw materials and the impact on massive migration.
The Roots of Spiral Dynamics – Research by Clare W. Graves Your Capacity Meets Our Complex Life Conditions To Produce Your/Our Current Forms of Mind and our shared social structures. Can you develop the capacity to deal with tomorrow’s conditions? Clare Graves on Levels of Development Clare Graves Additional References:… Read more »
GEN Gathering August 2016 Session Slides: Development as Statistical Aberration References: Development as Statistical Aberration References Session Handout: Development as Statistical Aberration Handout Stephen Jay Gould – Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_House:_The_Spread_of_Excellence_from_Plato_to_Darwin Is Evolution Going Somewhere? Since… Read more »
Constructor Theory is the newest GUTS (Grand Unified Theories) in theoretical physics. “I think it’s important to regard science not as an enterprise for the purpose of making predictions, but as an enterprise for the purpose of discovering what the world is really like, what is really there, how it… Read more »
Technologists vs. Humanists At the cutting edge of innovation we see a split between the technologists, who envision a future driven by science and technology, and humanists who believe human minds and cultures must fundamentally evolve to cope with the demands of modern technology. Technology extremists tell us we do… Read more »
Researchers now know that our current capacities are an individually unique combination of our biology (genes), our social/cultural support system (past and present), lifestyle choices, and our current psychological development. Fifty years of intense Post-Modern research can’t support the “Blank Slate” concept that nurture is all. The most accurate view… Read more »
Baby Boomers fixated on privacy as a defense against the traditionalist society of the 1950s that obsessed on punishing visible deviation from “acceptable” behavior. If the “thought police” can’t prove you’re doing it, they can’t exact retribution. Today, Millennials are rabidly posting things on Twitter and Facebook that Boomer’s grandparents… Read more »
In his book, @F-L-O-W, Find, Design, Use Talent to Emerge Happiness & Success in a Post-Modern World, Mike R Jay, an executive coach for 25 years, will start you on a development journey by asking some questions most of us are reluctant to address. You know Limits to Growth and… Read more »
In his 2004 book, Barry Schwartz describes the Paradox of too many Choices. According to Schwartz, “A typical American supermarket carries more than 30,000 items.” Consumer products and services also offer ever increasing options. Unfortunately, what is most disturbing about all these commercial choices is that most of the offerings… Read more »
Managers often model their businesses using the wrong branch of physics! We can’t solve the problems of the 21st century with the Newtonian physics that fueled the 18th century industrial revolution. So what are better mathematical and physical models to use for modern Management Challenges? The most important lesson business… Read more »
Feedback controls: In systems theory, the whole is seldom greater than the sum of the parts. The global economy, like any open system can rapidly deteriorate if driven by uncontrolled feedback loops. In theory, federal banks work like your home thermostat – the system becomes too hot, start the A/C… Read more »