Well done George ... your long blog silence is perfectly understandable ... folks around the planet are just getting on with their jobs and mixing in there own tribes with there special interest at heart.

The CI movement has a lot to gain from some of the other collab pushes. The Appreciative Inquiry (AI) people are doing amazing work around the world. The Evolving Cosmos group is simillarly achieving much. The colour coded Integrant Spiral dudes are progressing well. Each tribe has their Holy Grail firmly in hand and gather in workshops which help them mass.

Here is a thought to ponder >
What happens when the tribes collect and form a simple understanding of each other based on words of only one or two syllables?

Enjoy the Year of the Wood Rooster.

Best Regards PAD

George, thanks to some gentle prodding from an "older" "online friend," (not you - am still eons behind on catching up here) i joined the socialnets.org event, above.
And it is really shaping up well!

But you are "clicking" some of my favorite names here, in my relatively short internet and web hstory/experience, including, of course, Doug Engelbart.
Thanks for that reminder.

(And the nostalgia, since I read, from cover to cover, just about every Computer Currents magazine, from when it first came out, till I left California, some 4 years ago.) :-)

Lars

Dear George

I'm Leslie Simonfalvi from Budapest, Hungary. Teachers, trainers, and students at the International Teacher Training & Development College work together almost 100 per cent on the basis of the principles detailed in CI and Knowledge Ecology and Knowledge Ecosystems, and that's what we've been doing for the past 20 years.

We did not know about your site and about your theories, and we do not call it CI and KE, but now I must say that the whole thing works beautifully in practice, from top to bottom.

I wish you all the best

Leslie Simonfalvi
director, ITTDC

George,
This Thursday I was talking with one of the leaders of a well known German company. His Ph.D. thesis was at the intersection between physics and chemistry. His question: How do molecules turn and at what rate? By using very fast laser strobe lights and a powerful microsope he was able to take pictures of a molecule turning over micro-second intervals. He was also able to "see" how these molecules interacted with others even at a distance. In essence, he was decoding Brownian motion.

In our understanding of individual, organizational and collective learning processes, are we not moving from the world of "solids" to the world of "liquids" and ultimately to "gases?"

George, when you write: "We experience the rapid emergence of a new generation of more capable web browsers, co-authoring and publishing tools, free VoIP telephony, photo-blogging, video-chat, etc. What do they tell us about the potential for our co-creativity to rise on the spine of the double helix of autonomy and community?" Are you not recognizing the shift to liquid and gaseous learning, where one another's insightes, questions, huntches, etc. interact with the molecules of the other's insights, questions, etc.?

Our first economy was one of exchange, then we introduced "money" as a proxy for value. Are we not moving into the "meaning" economy? So many of the words you and others are using are suggesting this?