There's a weekend free symposium on General Semantics in NYC Nov 14-15 (argh conflict with MobIle BarCamp).

There's a Friday night event, where you can pay for dinner, or just attend the Douglas Rushkoff lecture for free.

• some amazing people have given this lecture: Abraham Maslow, Bucky Fuller, Robert Anton Wilson

• us freeloaders are benefactors of the dues-payers, who chose to Share

• Credit Crisis2008 comes from society following Game Rule-s that tell us that we can't share, can't create value: Artificial Scarcity

• kids start playing a Computer Game "straight", then get cheat codes, then win, then write mod for SharIng, then learn real coding to write new game

• society goes through same stages: levering New Media: writing, printing press, computer, Inter Net

• few take advantage of latest lever, even fewer share that

  • lots of bloggers, few coders

  • we don't think of the assumptions and Game Rule-s that we're accepting in that rule

    • starting from Re Naissance (see his other recent stuff): Place become Property, Commerce became Corporation, [Relation Ship]/Reputation became Brand Ing

• General Semantics has trickled down into NLP, [Tony Robbins], [The Secret]

  • I don't want to reprogram myself, I want to reprogram the world (Hack The Planet via Collective Action for Positive Sum Game)

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