Good day, dear friends, and especially NICHOLAS, KIRBY
AND TEAMWORK TEAM!
This is the system cross section of New Civilization Model One
(Nova Civilizacio Modelo Unu (Esperanto)) for June 6, 1995.
The purpose of these cross section views is to periodically
examine the subtle and not so subtle currents and trends in
New Civilization Model One, a new civilization that has been in
operation since early in 1994.
Today's system cross section is devoted to a bit more on the
function of the ThinkCo Division of Model One.
Commitment to Systems Approach
Since one of the fundamental assumptions guiding Model One
is that we shall use a systems approach to the designing,
building and operations of new civilizations, we must plead
guilty to the use of systems jargon from time to time, though
we try not to sound too technical. We certainly do not intend
to rule out more poetic prose and more loving constructs. But
we do feel that unless we have a systematic structure and approach
to Model One and later models, we will not succeed in our work.
As explained in our introductory essay (copies available upon request),
we found since we began in the early 1980's that unorganized discussion
groups or the like were fun and interesting, but did not build a
lasting project.
Teamwork
That leads us to the concept of Teamwork. Our teams are very specific
in their goals: thinking, food,infrastructure, learning,
health, banking, insurance, and retirement. The ThinkCo team feeds ideas
to the other seven teams, which in turn give feedback to ThinkCo. In
this way, there is a FOCUSED program intent on a specific result: to
make Model One of the New Civs work as well as possible, and lead to
many improvements (Model 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 etc.). This open-ended, open-
minded approach is intended to make this a perpetual project that learns
from its experiences with human interactions at many levels.
Summary
The foregoing approach is working well. There are points of resistance
as humans interact with the system, but, for the most part, this is not
a problem, since we point to our results... our accomplishments.
We are eager to get your ideas. Please address them to ao479@lafn.org
ThinkCo
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