Access HERE last week's webinar recording of "Can Clean Energy from Cold Water Replace Fossil Fuels" featuring Jeff Krehmer
Randal Adcock is the co-founder and president of Wayfinders Business Co-operative, a social enterprise that provides a platform for a small business ecosystem. He is a big thinker and a standout contributor to the KEI Network as a "systems" philosopher. His career has spanned 15 years in economic and community development, with a continuing interest in the many challenges facing humanity today.
Randal has been conducting a root cause analysis using systems science, searching for a way to resolve the root causes of humanity's suffering: meaningless work, political polarization, cancel culture, environmental impacts, and the emerging, ominous challenges of managing emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. The systemic uncertainties, issues, challenges, and problems facing civilization today (see the World Economic Forum's 2024 report HERE) are aggravated by subsequent anxieties, diminished cognitive function, the breakdown of trust and community, and primal defensive posturing.
Resolving Civil Chaos - Systems Change Proposed explores the chaos and condition of humanity today and proposes a call to action for achieving the unification of complex systems. Randall maintains that there is a set of manageable systemic root causes underlying today's chaos. He has a plan.
Helping the ordinary become extraordinary
What's in the news every day, commanding our attention? The extraordinary. The extremes. The weirder, the better. Anything outside the narrowing norm.
What consumes the attention of social media? Who get the most hits, the editorials, the documentaries, the headlines, even featured at death in the obituaries? The rich and famous. The criminals and the drugloards. The extremists and the violent. Anyone but the ordinary. No wonder our children are confused and mental illness is on the rise.
Well, I've had just about enough. Sure, I will vote and change the channel, but it takes a concerted effort today to find peace and quiet and to sit back in wonderment of the ordinary - our gifts, often overlooked and underappreciated. I am prepared to make a difference and recognize the ordinary. "Just a Chat!" is proposing to host a few webinars portraying the ordinary, the person and their experiences, as extraordinary. But I need your help.
Are you anything but extraordinary? Do you or someone you know have no story to tell? Do you feel like you are just one of the many millions of mainstreamers: going to work, raising a family, puzzled with no voice? Well, I want to help by discussing your experience(s) in search of the extraordinary and considering featuring you in a webinar. So give me a chance by replying HERE with the words "Just Ordinary," and I will follow up. - Editor@KEInetwork.net
Time for more regulating?
Most of us in the west rail against totalitarianism and increasing state authority. It has become popular ro guard freedom with a vengance. But without government authority, who is to regulate the excesses of greed and cybertheft, capitalism and monopolies, violence and fraud? This week there has been quite a bit of chatter in the KEI Network on the subject, some of which I am sharing here as there is a strong case to be made for regulating irresponsibility.
Fraudsters jailed. I perhaps like you have had my fill of fraudsters. I just learned this week that another fraudster - of six that I had tracked into a corner a few years ago was finally jailed. That's 3 so far - one jailed for 8 years by the Alberta Securities Commision, one for 6 weeks in BC, another - in Alberta for a week. Only two to go as one died just before Xmas. One of the two is unlikely, the perpetrator of a $7.5m North American scam that the FBI concluded wasn't significant enough to pursue!
On-line therapy. There is also the issue of regulating professional sevices on the interrnet as Britain is concerned with the number of young kids using bots on the internet for therapy HERE. That a therapist or bot can be evil/ promoting their self interest has always been possible, and while not necessarily probable, still warrants caution by the client particularly in the absence of a public regulator. The public regulator of the profession of Psychology and anyone claiming to be a "Psychologist", has been government that often gives conditional authority to a regulated profession through the association's College of Registrars. We have no such regulator for the internet yet. Such a regulator would be able to shut down a therapist/ bot. In the absence of such an authority the client is vulnerable and should be warned through parenting and education/ schooling, public advertising and protective sources.
Regulate before it is too late. Stephen Sackur of the BBC program HARDtalk speaks to philosopher Stephen Cave, director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity. He is at the centre of a growing debate about the merits of extending human longevity. Is it wise to seek to live forever? The director makes a strong case for government as a regulator to step in anticipating the implications of extending human longevity and the implications of runaway artificial intelligence. It's worth listening to HERE.
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