Review: Bourne Ultimatum
“So be it.”
About a decade ago I read the original Ludlum Bourne Trilogy, loved it and reread it several times in the years since. Big fan of the character, the complex scenarios and the glimpses of systems thinking that were involved in building them. Then I saw the movies.
Fun, action packed eye candy with overtones of dark character and storylines. Well executed character abstracts in the context of hard action. Lots of holes, but you just don’t care because it keeps moving. Ultimatum is closer to that archetype than the other two.
I’m not a book over movie snob. But you should read the books.
Review: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8K
Picked up one of these before heading off on my trip. Excellent little camera with all the power features of a DSLR and an incredibly long piece of glass. The screen is incredibly vibrant, photo quality is above par. RAW is fun.
Bottom line: If you want a power toy to work with without having to deal with a DSLR, this is it.
This Guy Is Paid $170,000 To Think This…
“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” Tancredo said. “That is the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they would otherwise do. If I am wrong, fine, tell me, and I would be happy to do something else. But you had better find a deterrent, or you will find an attack.”
IH + 5GW
Given: Purple’s post is a fun exercise.
Some points to respond to the many comments:
- You can think of invisible hurricanes as potential 5GW. But, like many people said yesterday, what is the value of a framework that includes everything – cancer, rain, roaches?
- Tightening up the framework by understanding the emergent aspect helps build solutions. As opposed to the secrecy layer, which just feels like a bad approach to dealing with complexity.
- The development of SEI’s will likely be the defining characteristic of 5GW. Each SEI is thinking, and collective thinking is done so far as it has been shown in emergent systems.
- The entire generational model is a study in emergence. Study a multiplicity of traits in a data-set of conflicts. You can delineate a generation where there is a notable shift. Each generation just has more actors. (In the future, you don’t fight war, you live it.)
Mark’s got the right idea:
Right now though, it’s all entirely speculative, including my own commentary on the subject.
Oh, and I concede that there was no Wizard in Oz.
The Wizard And The Invisible Hurricane
Sorry, but I think this is an effort looking for ghost puppet masters when there are none. In fact, this is indicative of what seems to be the critical flaw in the 5GWsite approach to 5GW.
5GW is what we label the emergent pattern formed by a distributed multitude of empowered individuals acting in concert by acting in their own self interest, without any collaboration.
You are seeking to make sense of complexity by having someone behind a layer of “secrecy”. Unless you are going to hunt down the invisible hand and label it a sentient being, there simply is not a Wizard in this Oz.