Subject: Re: The Arlington Institute |
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Date: 7/17/10, 01:17 |
To: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> |
Meanwhile, we need to start recruiting among futurists, and particularly those associated with the World Future Society. I am coming to the conclusion that such people have a great deal of the solutions we're looking for already, yet have failed to create anything like we have in order to implement those solutions.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Future_SocietyOn Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, I think putting the project PM widget on one's blog or column will be an easy sell, in fact we will have turn away hordes, because the widget has no negative potential effects, the worst case is status quo.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:This fellow would also be great for us, both as a blogger and governing net participant. Long-term thinker on space exploration.http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://21stcenturywaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/phobos1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://21stcenturywaves.com/2010/03/27/phobos-the-key-to-the-cosmos-just-ask-russia-and-china/&h=342&w=461&sz=55&tbnid=1FElFgfqg_Z0WM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPhobos&hl=en&usg=__D9W0yIrbGm4nydj2wCZvFN9IGUk=&sa=X&ei=KzhBTLKNLMH-8AbYmqDmDw&ved=0CDoQ9QEwBQ
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:I may have to read all of his books or at least get in touch with him; if the latter, I will wait until we have gotten some more things finalized, such as my further materials for Robert Green.Note the summaries with regards to challenges to the nation-state.On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:
I have heard this guy speak, Moi qui vous parle, it would have been sometime in 1963 - 1965. I can not remember anything he said, but I am sure I hung on every word at the time.On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:Here's one whom we should at least read up on:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Toffler
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, I just got done reading their "dream report," which of course produced nothing that actually happened (give it a read if you have a moment, it's amusing). Having said that, I should have noted that I'm not intending to publicly associate with this fellow - and even if I did, it would be assumed by anyone who noticed that I was doing so for purposes of writing a satire on him - but rather to pump him for info regarding his background in national security, largely for my own edification. I'm becoming increasingly interested in the interplay between the various military branches and intelligence services, as I get the feeling that we could learn a great deal from that dynamic. I also get the feeling that he would be happy to tell me everything he knows.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> wrote:I dunno, Barrett -- their website has some strange stuff on it:
The "Whether Map" which collects reports of intuitions and dreams from just about anybody?
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/tai/whether-map
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/Dream/Intuition-Entry-Form
Or this paper on pre-cognizant dreaming?
http://www.arlingtoninstitute.org/files/Dream%20Report.pdf
Futurists have been around for a while, they seem to me to resemble the motivational speaker industry. The motivational speakers popularize scholarship in psychology and get big fees urging roomfuls of rubes to increase productivity (or sales), and the futurists I have encountered write books and speak profitably, popularizing scientific and economic scholarship. This group seems to go a little further afield than popularizing -- intuition and pre-cognition, whoa.
My worry is that you could lose credibility with a true scholar like Juan Cole if you associate yourself incautiously with these folks.On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm going to get in touch with the head of this think-tank. He would be our most valuable asset.
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