Dear Chris:
Thanks much for your communication regarding the CYBEReal World
"cyberpreneurial" project I'm designing for real/time-space as well
as cyberspace. Your Lancaster Soft Systems methodology sounds like
it could be a valuable addition to our project-set. Of course,
any input that is Stafford Beer-related would be more than welcome.
I've been in touch with Beer and his partner, Allena Leonard,
in Toronto, and am developing a set of Management Systems Software
modules that can provide emerging small businesses or other organ-
izations find viable ways to grow and succeed in sustainable and
substantial ways.
Besides the MTV Real World/Miami venture, whose primary
purpose will be to create 22 entertaining half-hour tv shows,
and whose secondary purposes might be information, education and
motivation of millions of young people world-wide to get into
starting small businesses, I hope to design and build up to
64 parallel new enterprises in the real-time/space of an
8 unit apartment building I own in Miami Beach, as well as
in cyberspace.
I am trying to raise $500,000 immediately to refinance
the building, which is my home and office and CyberLab, plus
an additional $500,000 in cash,equipment or in-kind services
to rehab and outfit the property with a supercomputer such
as the IBM SP2 with 512 parallel microprocessor nodes, and
a 1,000 to 10,000 seat Lotus Notes groupware network using
the SP2 as the engine for the network. I'm currently developing
a fully fleshed out proposal to IBM, which as you know has
recently declared Network-Centric Computing and the Internet
as important business priorities.
I'd like your design ideas in inserting computing resources
and cybernetic/cyberspace methodologies into the right part of the
variety equations in the CYBEReal-and-Real World/Miami projects,
and linking them with each other and a wide range of consultants,
business school deans and facuty members, and operating CEO's
that can guide, support, and even benefit from the projects.
So send me some info or syllabi on your Lancaster Soft
Systems techniques and material, or other bibliographies.
I'll be setting up an Internet conference site where
you'll be able to get more info about how to participate in
the CYBEReal-Real World endeavours. I'm especially interested
in design ideas that can inject some Principia Cybernetica
concepts into the whole process, as well as the seminal
works of Beer, Wiener, and a contemporary team of business
visionaries named Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot. You should
read their recent book,"The End of Bureacracy and the the Rise
of the Intelligent Organization." They invented the word
"intrapreneurialism," live in Seattle and are interested
in working with us on CYBEReal-Real World/Miami projects.
I'll keep you posted with what's happening, in the
above projects as well as about our overarching master
project-process, "STRATEGIC ALLIANCE: CYBERSPACE BEACH."
I also serious of seeking world-wide investors,
private, public, academic and non-profit who would like
to join forces in what could be one of the most important
projects impacting on the planet's survival and growth
in the Cyberspace Age, a new and irrestible stage in the
evolution of human culture, business and civilization
under the sign of technology --- cybertech, that is.
Let me hear from you and please do fward this
message to interested parties, LISTSERVS, and newsgroups
that you feel might like to play and learn with us.
Let's keep in touch. (Please post this to the PCP Listserv
after you read it.
Thanks.
Marty
Dr. Marty Cyber
CEO: Cyber Systems Group
Director: Miami Device Project
Internet e-mail: cyb@gate.net
phone: (305)672-2273
snail-mail: 1329 Penn. Ave./Suite 6
Miami Beach, FL 33139-4025
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Dr. Chris Miles
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Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazi Magusa,
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