Materials for Two Theories: TIMN and STA:C

How and why four cardinal forms of organization — tribes, institutions, markets, networks (TIMN) — explain social evolution. How and why space-time-action cognitions (STA:C) explain people's mindsets.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

In favor of “peer progressives”: how, where, and why they’re good for TIMN (part 4 of 4)

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This Part 4 picks up where Part 3 left off examining Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect (2012) — in particular, his concept of “peer progress...

Monday, July 1, 2013

In favor of “peer progressives”: how, where, and why they’re good for TIMN (part 3 of 4)

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This Part 3 picks up where Part 2 left off examining Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect (2012) — in particular, his concept of “peer progress...

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

In favor of “peer progressives”: how, where, and why they’re good for TIMN (part 2 of 4)

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This Part 2 picks up where Part 1 left off, examining Steven Johnson’s new book Future Perfect (2012) and its parallels to TIMN — in part...

Friday, June 21, 2013

In favor of “peer progressives”: how, where, and why they’re good for TIMN (part 1 of 4)

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[UPDATE — July 1, 2013: Edited to note that this post is now appearing in 4 parts.] [UPDATE — June 25, 2013: Edited to note that this p...

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Terrorist mindsets: importance of spatial orientations — using STA to analyze the Boston Marathon bombers

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Watching news and analysis about the Boston bombers led to wondering what might come up that bears on my episodic efforts to elaborate a fr...

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David Ronfeldt: Professional status: retired from RAND since 2008. Fields: first 20 years, U.S.-Latin American security issues (Mexico, Cuba); next 15 years, worldwide implications of the information revolution (cyberocracy, cyberwar, netwar, swarming, noopolitik, the nexus-state). Current goals: finish quadriform framework about social evolution (past, present, future); finish social cognition framework about people's space-time-agency orientations. Publications: mostly online at rand.org and firstmonday.org.

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