Google Tech Talk:Shifting to a Global Consciousness:Part 2

On November 10, 2008, Global MindShift made a presentation at Google on how technology can help accelerate the shift to a global consciousness. The presentation was followed by a conversation with Dr. Vint Cerf, Google VP and Chief Internet Evangelist; and Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org. Representing Global MindShift was Executive Director Kern Beare, and Chairman and CEO of the Foundation for Global Community, Richard Rathbun. (2nd of 6 segments.)

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[INConcentration]

We need to have a 'split brain' conversation system.

A circle group of 6 people, with three in one group on one side and three in the other, so that you can share memes and parse them between multi split brain groups.

[kbeare]

Can you say more about your idea here? I do not quite follow what you are proposing. Thanks.

[INConcentration]

Global Conversations don't scale well.

So you need people to both moderate and participate in conversations... and promote members of their group to a higher echelon according to their knowledge and skill.

So you need to have little enrichment groups through whom teachers can travel quickly...

[kbeare]

Figuring out how to scale these conversations is a primary interest. If I understand: your suggestion is to create a cadre of skilled moderators, elected by their peers, who then have the role of "visiting" or checking in with some number of small "enrichment" groups, as a way to maintain the quality of those groups. Is that accurate? Thanks much. Appreciate your help.

[jackieblum14]

some people just don't see it, but they forgot what the world was like before america, the WHOLE world was the third world back then. if your all in poverty who is supposed to save you then? oh well at least its more FAIR that way.

[jackieblum14]

the comments about the economy being more important than the survival of the human species, is very misstated. the survival of the economy is directly linked to the survival of the human species. the american way of life has created more prosperity for the citizens of the US AND other countries than any other culture. yet it is always the first to be torn apart by the intellectuals.

[FreshRollyG]

11:11 is facilitating "the shift" too

[INConcentration]

no that's not what I mean though. I mean that in a global conversation everyone has to have the capacity to moderate the conversation and promote their peers. They also need to be able to reproduce and distribute lengthy memeplexes ... almost the best model for this has to be youtube with playlists. At the moment nothing else comes close to the youtube model using metatags to catagorize by topic. All it really needs is a 3 way video chat function and we're set.

[DivinityRose]

Wonderfully presented!