The Web 3.0 slideshow

by Johannes Bhakdi July 9, 2010
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This is my original slideshow covering the Web 3.0 – read around the world :)
Web 3.0
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The economic feasibility of a trillion dollar web 3.0 knowledge industry

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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In “From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0”, I elaborated on the idea of user generated media business as the next phase in the internet evolution. In this Web 3.0, a new breed of user generated knowledge business platforms will allow everyone to easily create a full scale small media business without any technology or media [...]

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From Web 1.0 to Web 3.0

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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I am sure you have heard about the Web 2.0, and recently the term Web 3.0 has popped up all over the place.

But since the web and its evolution is a difficult to predict process open to discussion by millions of people, it’s hard to find an explanatory approach that provides a clear picture over [...]

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Why market theory isn’t just wrong, but stupid

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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Markets are rational, and the best way to solve all problems. They consists of so called market players who constantly create transparency, compare prices, and make things more efficient.

Ouch.

Forward thinking economists like Justin Fox1 try to convey to main stream economics what every 5th grader could articulate what’s wrong with this hypothesis. Of course, there [...]

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Human economics: getting economics right. Finally.

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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When I was 19, I felt one of the most important things in the human universe is the question where the wealth of nations and individuals originates from. Why some nations are poor, and other peoples are rich. And even more important: why all of us are so much better of than a few centuries [...]

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Is everyone stupid?

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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Recently, I had a long argument with Angie, who helps me editing sophotec.com. The topic: Is everyone stupid, and do we have to dumb down Sophotec posts – or is everyone smart and understands advanced wisdom structures if we present them in the right way.

Well, we didn’t come to a conclusion. I have no idea. [...]

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How the human mind works

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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Yes, I have studied psychology. And no, I haven’t learned too much about the human mind. It’s another case of a science that got stuck in internal methodological debates and found all the wrong answers to the wrong questions.

From 1999-2003, I conducted a series of research projects that followed an innovative thinking approach that blended [...]

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Knowledge technology

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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In “Does knowledge change human behavior”, I discussed the process in that knowledge influences our actions. It became clear that knowledge in the sense of maps of cause and effect is the only way human behavior can be changed at all, and that the decisive problem boils down to the question of knowledge transfer effectiveness. [...]

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Does knowledge change human behavior – or not?

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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One of the most fundamental debates around progress is directly related to this insight: is knowledge the bottleneck of progress – or is the real problem that people don’t apply knowledge to their behavior, because they are irrational?

To answer this question, we have to take a step back and become clear about what knowledge is [...]

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How knowledge drives progress

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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The basic progress model introduces the fundamental metrics of progress. But it opens a second question, which I think is the most important question of all: What is the secret of progress that lies in between world A and world B – the factor that enables change and progress in the human universe?

I found a [...]

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The basic progress model: moving from world A to world B

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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Progress is a big topic, and it’s hard to grasp. That’s probably why no one really likes to zero in on it – it’s difficult to tackle, to break down, and to define. I developed the following model to provide for a simple and sharp no-nonsense approach to progress, and making progress a tangible entity [...]

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The network effect

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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All the knowledge in the world is of no help if you keep it isolated. Here is why: in order to solve a problem and explain it to people, you need to connect to them. And this means: you need to engineer some docking points. If you don’t interact with people during knowledge production, you [...]

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Why Newton was right in the first place and what it means for progress

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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There is a repeated, annoying pattern in discussions about science and knowledge production. The story goes: Newton and his laws of nature (f=m x a) was wrong, as Einstein’s relativity theory proved. And this means: all knowledge is relative, our scientific findings are only true within a limited historic timeframe.

This is wrong on several levels, [...]

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It’s dark. We need a theory of progress ASAP.

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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When I was 19, I had an idea. The idea was: all problems can be solved if people would think about them. The only reason problems don’t get solved is that either people don’t think, or they think in the wrong way. But when I started to try to decipher the human thinking process and [...]

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How to change the world

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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Six simple steps to solve any problem on the planet.

Stop creating a lot of random movements everywhere. They inhibit each other.
For each topic, get the smartest people at one table
Listen and build one coherent model from their input that explains the problem and points out the solution (a wisdom unit)
Use Social Coding to turn the [...]

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Economics: the road from ruins

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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Every time I look up in the sky and see a plane crossing the sky, I feel a deep sense of pride and satisfaction. The ability to fly is just one of the many examples of the greatness of modern science, the incredible power of the human mind, and its ability to achieve the unthinkable.

The [...]

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America, the beautiful

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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To most of you, this article’s headline might either sounds like nostalgia or like extreme denial of reality. That’s because most of us today think only in two modes: the past (nostalgia) or the present (denial). I am not interested in the past, and the present bores me. What counts is the future, and the [...]

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Is America committing suicide?

by Johannes Bhakdi June 19, 2010
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“Great nations don’t die by murder, they die by suicide.” This is how I feel today when I watch the greatest nation pushing itself into decline.

It’s a certain consensus among political thinkers on the left and right alike that America is in trouble. Not just trouble as in recovering from eight years of destructive foreign [...]

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