Attended the Environmental Scanning Practices Group presentation given by Dr Thomas Courchene from Queens. The presentation was titled: Tectonic Shifts: Toward a New Canadian Political Economy. He outlined three Societal Transformations: • Digitization and the Technological Revolution - Internet, biotech, globalization (global supply chains) • Shift to Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE) and Society - The information revolution privileges Human...

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The green philosophical conundrum

If the human project is to actualize itself to the full extent of our possibilities - then no matter what manner humans use as they pursue this project the act of being and becoming human is to leave nature as it is given, behi...

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Person/People versus Personnel/Human Resources versus Human Capital

I've just taken a first stab at getting down on paper, my sleep/dream epiphanic thought stream concerning the term human capital. This is still very rough but the epiphany is that terms such as personnel or human resource refer to the second classic factor of production (there are three - land, labor and capital) and human capital refers to the third factor of production and thus have significantly different entailments. Furthermore the concept...

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Post-Halloween Monday.

Good morning world. I had a very successful Halloween this year although I think the H1N1 virus kept quite a few kids at home. Only had about 100 kids. But my pumpkins were the best yet, thanks to my son's designs. Check them out here:http://picasaweb.google.ca/johnverdon Halloween 2009.I hope to keep up a regular blog, exploring the implications of network technologies for human capital in the 21st Century. I know Halloween pumpkins and network...

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