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Dateline: July 14, 2009 ... Arcadia, CA
Contact: John Toomey
Phone: (626) 230-8862
E-Mail: fixxer@prodigy.net
Web Address: http://theworldmindnetwork.net
ARCADIA, CA - July 14, 2009 - Over the last five years or so, new Web
2.0 tools have hit society like one wave after another: MySpace,
Skype, Facebook, YouTube, all the various iPhone and Blackberry
applications and now Twitter. The effect, according to social
scientists, is to vastly increase both the complexity and content of
communication, such that the planet appears more and more like a vast
integrated Mind, akin to James Lovelock's 'Gaia' or Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin's 'Noosphere'. This is the rationale for the World Mind
Network who want to help people use the these tools for grander
purposes.
To a large degree, Web 2.0 tools have been used historically for
rather trivial purposes: games, gossip, silly videos, inconsequential
chatter. However, recent events in Iran may indicate a turning point.
Vastly expanded powers of networking improve education, research,
build community across political divides and utilize collaborative
online mind-mapping to address common problems.
Joining the World Mind Network is like having a Facebook or Twitter
account, but it assumes that one is interested in improving the world
somehow. The WMN Board of Trustees includes five Nobel Laureates
allowing participants to join a forum devoted to improving science
education co-moderated by a Nobel Laureate (Peter Doherty), start a
psychological research project, or contribute to an interactive blog
on the world economic crisis co-hosted by another Nobelist (Edmund
Phelps). Members are setting up live webcam links between secondary
classrooms in South Africa, Macedonia, and Japan. The new Institute
for Digital Music (institutefordigitalmusic.ning.com)supports online
collaboration between amateur composers using mobile apps such as Leaf
Trombone for the iphone. TwitLit.net invites users to create poems in
traditional forms which are short enough to send as a Twitter message.
The fact that an average person can have an enormous effect on the
world through free tools that are used every day for business and
pleasure is becoming more and more evident. According to the World
Mind Network, in the last 15 years or so Humanity has traversed the
anthropological scale from Homo Sapiens (Thinking Man) to Homo
Connnectivus (Connected Man) to the current Homo Endunamonus
(Empowered Man). The possibilities are endless. For more
information, please visit us at:
http://theworldmindnetwork.net
Anyone wishing to chair a committee can write to:
friendsbeyondborders@gmail.com
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