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Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:28 PM<br>Subject: Synthesis - Google as God?<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<span style="font-size:12px"><font face="'times new roman', times, serif">Dear Michel, � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �</font>� � � ��</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:24px"><font color="#0000cd" face="georgia, times, times new roman, serif"><b>Google as God?</b></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:georgia,times,'times new roman',serif"><i><span style="line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">"..</span></i></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:georgia,'times new roman',verdana;line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">strongly variable, highly complex systems cannot be properly managed by planning, optimization and top-down control. This calls for a fundamental paradigm shift.</span><i style="font-family:georgia,times,'times new roman',serif"><span style="line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:arial,'helvetica neue',helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">In this article, written by Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich, Dirk looks at the fundamental tension between top-down surveillance and control in a global social system that is growing ever more complex and unstable</span><span style="line-height:19px;text-align:-webkit-auto">. �We need a paradigm shift, Dirk argues, to what he calls a "democratic,�</span></span><font face="arial, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19px">participatory market society". �A thought-provoking essay from one of Europe's leading complexity theorists.�</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12px"><span style="font-family:'times new roman',times,serif">Best wishes,<br>
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