WELCOME

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1. Read/watch what we ask you 2. Be skeptical 3. Argue 4. Cite who you source from 5. Attend and participate

Recap on week 1

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1. Context and assumptions 2. History is invaluable 3. Perspective enables fad detection

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Recap on week 2

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IN THE BEGINNING...

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40,000YEARS AGO

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37,000YEARS AGO

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Lebombo bone

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29 notches

29 days

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Superior eye sight and coordination

sapien neanderthalensis

Very big brain

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BAND SOCIETY

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AGRARIAN REVOLUTION

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SPECIALISATION

Cleric

Peasant

Warrior/land-owner

MANAGEMENT

Abacus RECORDS &

MEASUREMENT

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Public architecture / civil service

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POWER

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ALL HAIL OUR GLORIOUS

LEADER

THE BIG MAN

YOU

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1945. The Use of Knowledge

in Society

We cannot expect that this problem will be solved by first communicating all this knowledge to a central board which, after integrating all knowledge, issues its orders. We must solve it by some form of decentralisation.

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EVERYONE

1 Google search/portal

2 Facebook user generated

3 YouTube user generated

4 Yahoo! search/portal

5 Blogger.com user generated

6 Baidu.com search/portal

7 Wikipedia user generated

8 Windows Live search/portal

9 Twitter user generated

10 QQ.COM search/portal

This is my 7th presidential campaign. ... You’re supposed to have strong ... command over everything in the organization.... I’ve worked with enough tech involving the Net to know that you will absolutely suffocate anything that you’re trying to do on the Internet by trying to command and control it. It’s hard to let go, but you know, we’ve decided that’s what we were going to do.

- Joe Trippi

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LEADER

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$5Bn

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1. The agricultural revolution enabled big populations & surplus 2. Cities required administration, specialisation, and hierarchy 3. ...but Linux, and similar movements, seem band-like

@johnnyryanSummary

1. What did I learn from the lecture in Week X about management thought?

2. What do I not yet understand?

3. What do I understand now?

4. Where did I find the answer?

foundations@ucd.ie