Darkening of the Light

Kamal and Nina at Archaeology stand at @philasciencefest #PSF2012 (Taken with Instagram at The Woodlands)

Kamal and Nina at Archaeology stand at @philasciencefest #PSF2012 (Taken with Instagram at The Woodlands)

Oaxerai sticker from 2000 — Christopher Perri (Taken with Instagram at Earth Cup)

Oaxerai sticker from 2000 — Christopher Perri (Taken with Instagram at Earth Cup)

“As for the future, your task is not to see it, but to enable it.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry
“To understand the future,you have to look back at least twice as far as you’re looking ahead.”
— Institute for the Future
“Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
— Henry Ford
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Often imitated but never duplicated”
— Cucina Zapata
Major principles of decentralized organizations according to Brafman & Beckstrom in “The Starfish and the Spider”

1st Principle: When attacked, a decentralized organization tends to become even more open and decentralized; the harder you fight it, the stronger it gets.

2nd Principle: it’s hard to tell a centralized organization with decentralized operations apart from a truly decentralized one.

3rd Principle: an open system doesn’t have centralized intelligence; the intelligence is spread throughout the system.

4th Principle: open systems can easily mutate.

5th Principle: the decentralized organization sneaks up on you.

6th Principle: as industries decentralize, overall profits decrease.

“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth — not going all the way, and not starting.”
— Buddha