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Questioning and Foresight

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- Latvia (Wikipedia) Dr. Artur Puga, head of FSU (Forward Studies Unit, Latvian Union of Scientists), offered a most thoughtful reply to my blog post titled "Beyond Computer Literacy" Revisited. A link to FSU is provided above. This appears to be a current summary of Dr. Puga's area of interest. http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-site/whoswho.cgi?action=detail&id=102392&authorid=701916 More details into his thinking can be found in this Powerpoint presentation. http://www.innovation.lv/baltdyn04/ presentations/Session4_Universities/15-15_Puga.ppt I will share some of my response here. It is so humbling to have people reach out to me in my own language when I cannot respond in theirs and delightful that cyberspace makes such interaction so easy. Dr. Puga and I share an understanding of the word community as a highly scalable term, from the interactions of the community of ideas within our heads, to teams, departments, organizations and nations. He wrote in his Powe