19 February 2008
Stanford Solutions Network: A Proposal for a Continuously Improving, Real World, Immersive Problem Solving Framework

"For the first time in history, our tools are becoming as powerful as our problems. Unfortunately, a frustrating gap remains between our urgent problems and their potential solutions. The solutions are not just technical; they live across disciplinary boundaries, fragmented efforts, ideologies, and entrenched interest groups."

"Stanford can play a leadership role in marshalling our considerable resources to imagine, model, prototype, test, and help implement bipartisan solutions that work. The proposed Stanford Solutions Network would provide a continuously improving and immersive problem solving environment."

I will be attending Neil's presentation with much anticipation. As I interpret his ideas, I see fundamentally sound systems thinking: analysis, synthesis, unity, diversity and an appreciation of the entanglement. I wonder though, to what extent he's connected the virtual to the physical, and how he envisions keeping this from being just another academic think/do tank. (more info)