What I think I learn at the company retreat
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 2:26AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

Everyone in company together in northern VA for ground truth/common operational picture/intellectual group grope for three days.

Need?

We're exploding in growth and need to make sure we're all on the same page as we traject forward (is that a word?).

I sit through brief on ontologies and I come up with this on my own:

1) Religion is mankind's first attempt at an ontology (hierarchical taxonomy like Wikipedia) of a "complex" world.

2) As complexity increases, the need for better ontologies increase.

3) Thus, as globalization spreads and deepens, the need for religion increases.

Take that Hitchens!

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