Smart Mobs

[Friam mailing list]

Folks,
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From: Howard Rheingold, "Smart Mobs"
http://www.smartmobs.com/book/index.html

"Smart mobs emerge when communication and computing
technologies amplify human talents for cooperation.
The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to
be both beneficial and destructive,"
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From: "Geography of Bohemia"
By Shea Andersen, NM Business Weekly

"It's all well and good to create a well-financed hotbed of technology like
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),
but turning that into money-generating innovation is tough without creative
thinkers.
That's where the bohemians come in."
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Here's a fascinating example of what's not in SantaFe anymore.
Didn't they use to be on Agua Fria in a certain little adobe?

The Swarm Development Group http://www.swarm.org/  is now hosted at:
Columbia Basin Research
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/  !

Must have something to do with the "Smolt-to-Adult Ratio".

They did do a paper:
"Application of the Out-Migrant Survival Simulator (OMSS) using the
SWARM modeling environment to study smolt-predator
interactions"
http://www.cbr.washington.edu/papers/swarmfest.html
Note:
SwarmFest 2003 is at University of Notre Dame
http://www.nd.edu/~swarm03/
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 From 1998 at the Swarm site:

"In recognition of his fundamental work in the fields of
Artificial Life, the Physics of Computation, and
Computational Approaches to Complex Systems, the Santa
Fe Institute recently honored Dr. Langton by tossing him out
on his ass. He considers this his highest form of recognition
to date, and is therefore proud to wear the title:

Distinguished Expelee of the Santa Fe Institute."
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Why can't we all just, get along?
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If everybody in town that was involved\interested in the
Complexity side of the Infomesa came to Museum Hill,
they would fill the giant inner plaza.

But what to do with that "SmartMob"?

I agree with OwenD. that if you just got all the separate
power structures to cooperate, you could build industry in this town.
Santa Fe has the same problem in other industries,
there are many dance/performance spaces standing empty,
while high school kids are moving chairs out of the cafeteria to practice.
Way too many major players that don't cooperate.
I disagree with the assessment that's been floated around
that this is another Silicon valley about to flower.
This is a poor, blue-collar, hispanic town with major problems,
the largest of which is being a convenience for major players.
This gorgeous, unique, city-state should be wealthy.
It is a national disgrace that with LANL & SFI right here,
that there is not a solid tech economy.
Shouldn't they be educational institutions and incubators,
don't they get Government funding partially for that?
And why doesn't the State of NM get it?

Must be the "Bohemians" forgot to include currency in the Model.
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From:
Parunak, H. Van Dyke. Go to the Ant: Engineering Principles
from Natural Multi-Agent Systems
This .pdf is findable at: http://www.redfish.com/research.htm

"Artificial agent communities will be more robust and better able to
organize themselves if they are designed to
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include a dissipative mechanism such as a currency.
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...the flow of currency among agents guides their
decisions, thus providing an entropy leak that supports
self-organization of the entire system. "
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Regards,

Lanny

[Friam mailing list]

  >>if you just got all the separate power structures
  >>to cooperate

We don't *get* them to cooperate - that's the mob part.

  >>Way too many major players that don't cooperate.

I suggest that they do.  Quite well. Tourism, real-estate, construction,
extractive industries, gaming,
big-box retail.  Hawaiian island economy stuff. Imagine how those folks feel
about making the economy be about high-income tech jobs.  No vast conspiracy
implied, but we're really not much on their radar.  Yet.

  >>I disagree with the assessment that's been
  >>floated around that this is another
  >>Silicon valley about to flower.

Good grief, no. Many of us moved here to get AWAY from
the valley culture.  Too many idiots per capita (leading to their currently
proposed 1/3 state budget cuts).  Something is indeed about to happen in
Santa Fe, but let's make it our own unique solution.

  >>This is a poor, blue-collar, hispanic town with
  >>major problems, the largest of which is being a
  >>convenience for major players.

Please turn to the real-estate sections of the Sunday paper.  Note carefully
the differences between the
two sections, and which one's bigger.

  >>And why doesn't the State of NM get it?

Much as it pains me to relate this, there is a New Mexico outside of Santa
Fe.  And there are many places (including pockets of this hometown) where
they do get it.

While waiting for Florence to happen, remember that Cosimo de Medici was an
outsider.

Carl