This is a neglected topic that many disciplines should be able to find common ground in. How can an adaptive system maintain a competitive Adaptive Rate if its information channels don't allow any and all system feedback patterns to float freely?
Should our 1% Central Planners dominate cultural information exchange?
Data is meaningless without context, and if an electorate cannot stay adequately abreast of FULL context, then it is taking complete uncertainty, not just extreme risks regarding its own national security.
Cultural information channels allow free flow of all available and emerging feedback, so that a populous may at least attempt to know much of what it's members know. In every form of systems science known, an Output Gap, Achievement Gap or Agility Gap inevitably follows a Distributed Information Gap.
Given that an adequately informed electorate is the best defense for a free people, what is the point of letting personal profit motives throttle what information flows through still-significant cultural feedback channels? Today, that still means our regional media firms.
So, Should the Koch Brothers Own The Tribune Newspapers?
If not, who should manage and regulate public information channels?
Further, if the Tribune and other, privately-owned media outlets are all bottlenecks limiting how quickly America can know what American's know .... what other self-informing models should we turn to to keep us all best informed of what minimal data best defines looming contexts?
Fluidly evolving required data flow patterns is a requirement for maintaining Adaptive Rate, in any system - whether an intracellular, physiological, military, economic or cultural system.
Our most compelling need is to continue to have MOST OF US sort out what few things are relevant for further national evolution, while promptly ignoring everything that isn't.
However, that primal issue ISN'T EVEN MENTIONED in economics textbooks!
Data is meaningless without context, and if an electorate cannot stay adequately abreast of FULL context, then it is taking complete uncertainty, not just extreme risks regarding its own national security.
Cultural information channels allow free flow of all available and emerging feedback, so that a populous may at least attempt to know much of what it's members know. In every form of systems science known, an Output Gap, Achievement Gap or Agility Gap inevitably follows a Distributed Information Gap.
Given that an adequately informed electorate is the best defense for a free people, what is the point of letting personal profit motives throttle what information flows through still-significant cultural feedback channels? Today, that still means our regional media firms.
So, Should the Koch Brothers Own The Tribune Newspapers?
If not, who should manage and regulate public information channels?
Further, if the Tribune and other, privately-owned media outlets are all bottlenecks limiting how quickly America can know what American's know .... what other self-informing models should we turn to to keep us all best informed of what minimal data best defines looming contexts?
Fluidly evolving required data flow patterns is a requirement for maintaining Adaptive Rate, in any system - whether an intracellular, physiological, military, economic or cultural system.
Our most compelling need is to continue to have MOST OF US sort out what few things are relevant for further national evolution, while promptly ignoring everything that isn't.
However, that primal issue ISN'T EVEN MENTIONED in economics textbooks!
We need to enlarge our policy space and increase our policy agility - and both require significantly faster TEMPO in altering our public information channels. How can can we get there from here? What new methods do we need?
