User talk:Balatro

Hi Balatro,

Welcome to AdCiv!

Many thanks for your recent contributions. I haven't had a chance to look through all of them yet, but I certainly look forward to doing so. Anyway, I am glad you have found AdCiv and your contributions here are certainly much appreciated.

If you feel like it, do contact me at and tell me some more about yourself.

Thanks again,
-- Charles.

Topics that could be added to this wiki

• Open-source governance aka participatory democracy
• Architecture/ housing/ livingry (this is the most obvious thing lacking right now)
• Thinkers: Bucky Fuller, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary etc.
• The principle of decentralization. A situation of emergent order from the complex interaction of parts. Shown by complexity theory in mathematics. A beehive is a good metaphor of the new society (emergent order; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts), whereas the old society was more like an eye atop a pyramid (imposed order). Applies to water, food, manufacturing, electricity, political power, but above all to the Internet. The Internet proves that this sort of emergent order works. This even applies to education: knowledge is not handed down from the teacher, but constructed by each student.
  It is like Alan Watts' comparison of the monarchical conception of the universe, where God is the boss, reflected in the social structure of the West from courts to schools to governments, compared to the more Taoist conception of the universe as organic, intelligent, self-organizing.
  Decentralization of manufacturing has the interesting effect of promoting innovation and rapid adoption of new technologies; large-scale, centralized manufacturing is anti-innovative because of economies of scale. To put it another way, centralized manufacturing makes it cheaper to continue doing what you've always done; innovation is expensive because it requires new factories etc.
• Synthetic biology.
  • Making cheap pharmaceuticals
  • Better food
  • Photosynthetic and microbial electricity
  • Restore environment (bioremediation). Scrub carbon [1]. Industries that produce toxic chemicals could break them down on-site.

Links

http://www.synergyii.com/