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Invitation: Space Race- open source script by Future Historians Club of Bethesda
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REFLECTION
If I understand, you are all asking : why do my friends 1 2 3 and I believe intercitizen relations (underpinning networking and activation of open projects for humanity) are so vital to all the work we will ever do?

1 I guess the first assumption I am making is: probably the tsunami was a wake up call to all peoples; we need to stand up ; there's interlocal (global village transparent networked) goodwill flows that only the peoples can achieve; which even democracy's top down leaders alone (or the governance systems of such) cannot sustain our futures of globalisation through

2 Although ultimately every assumption is personal, this one is informed by linking 22-30 years' worth of open space debates. 22 years ago I co-authored the first future history on "death of distance", an idea which ironically Bush's 21 leaders of Gathering Storm just revisited last October in launching America's 2 newest space races: 1 end addiction to petroleum economy, 2 open up love of scientific discovery so that its as fashionable to youth and media as sports. As well as having 22 years of scripts for open debates on such topics, my father (and The Economists 100 years of editorial studies before him) taught me that national and foreign policy economics is only truly as valuable as the next societal revolution it makes free and happily peaceful. That's what his 1976 survey in The Economist called Entrepreneurial Revolution was about. In those days top people connected with its visions more than with spreadsheeting numbers. For example, a young Romano Prodi hosted business leaders roundtables all round Italy with ER as the discussion input. Ironically, the formation of the EU required the support of The Economist in the early days. Brussels is no longer living its identity of policies promoting commonwealth to all nations. Buraeucrats are as capable of destroying free speech as any other controlling in-group - see eg Art Kleiner's work on trust-flow.

3 If I am vaguely right, these connect big topics -beyond my capability to try to respond to in one linear thread. 3 suggestions:

A) any peoples world change community needs to edit their own charter of 10 commandments for Network Economics- try this out as a first impression http://networkeconomics.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_networkeconomics_archive.html

B) if this particular topic interests you, why don't we start an email group until all the Q&A have been played out, and then report back to this thread. I am at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk

C) Having searched through diverse scripts of exponential consequences over 22 years, I can inform you its not just Gaian Lovelocks whose lifelong learning curve forecasts we are in the last few years of determining what globalisation (including the probaibility of "death of birth") we are compounding. If we cannot both agree some sort of 10 commandments for Omidyar and map (say) 100 other collaboration networks for humanity which also agree with exploring intercizen economics, the future is not just dark, its ending. That's the sort of urgency of resolve the people I network with at valuetrue.com agree to so we can make our best transformation shot : collaborating/mapmaking towards a higher transparancy system level connecting global fairness as it interfaces with every local society

PS It interests me and citizens of Bethesda intensely that Bush has come up with 2 space races that could potentially transform the USA and its compound cross-cultural interventions all round the world. Then look at his cluster of 21 advisers - they come from arms, education and medical areas. Three very important global sectors indeed but ones whose exponentials are not necessarily uptilting (Friedman's language) as we study their recent future histories of leadership. At very least we need to form other clusters of 21 to get into both of these space races : clean energy and open science discovery for youth. One of these clusters could come from all the diversities that Omidyar could reach if we nominated 21 folk to review the Gathering Storm and to edit 10 commandments of networking economics as part of that intercitizen (cross-cultural) peoples review.
refs 10 commandments http://networkeconomics.blogspot.com/1999_12_01_networkeconomics_archive.html

One sample script from 1984 http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
Scripting death of distance http://deathofdistance.blogspot.com
Scripting ER http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/Exponentials http://exponentials.blogspot.com
Friedman http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=15737
Project30000 http://project30000.blogspot.com
Club of Bethesda as a prototype for any collaboration city http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com
Gathering Storm http://www.nap.edu/