Advancing Psychological Education for All
Young adults are on the true threshold of life. They have outgrown their childhood, survived the rigors of adolescence, and now catch a glimpse of their great potential as they move into early maturity. For them to see even a short way into the future (and everyone can) is almost breathtaking. Young adults are assuming … Continue reading
In 1839 down-at-heels artist who gave lessons in drawing was asked by a pupil whether payment of a ten-dollar fee would be helpful. The art teacher—a something dabbler in the mysteries of the electromagnetism—replied. “It would save my life, that’s all.” Samuel F.B. Morse had already proved that he could send coded messages along an … Continue reading
A torrent of oncoming technologies will make possible endless further varieties of para-money. Thus, cards may soon let us decide how much fungibility we want. The Arab Malaysian Bank in Kuala Lampur has offered a card to Muslim customers that disallows use in massage parlors or nightclubs. Before long, activist political movements, for example, may … Continue reading
Ever since brokers began congregating at Jonathan’s Coffee House in the eighteenth century and gave birth to what became the London Stock Exchange, the money eyes in each country in the West has had within it a financial-services industry handling the needs of borrowers and investors. This industry has relied on the most advanced data … Continue reading
The weapon used by retailers to hurl the big manufacturers back on their heels is a small black-and-white symbol. Ever since the mid-sixties a little noticed committee of retailers, wholesalers, and grocery manufacturers had been meeting with companies like IMB, National Cash Register, and Sweda to discuss two common supermarket problems: long checkout lines and … Continue reading
Knowledge has always been a factor in the creation of wealth. However, in no previous wealth system has the knowledge sector played so dominant a role. Today we are seeing an explosive growth in the amount, variety and complexity of knowledge needed to design, produce and deliver value in every market. As a result, the … Continue reading
Many changes in the society’s knowledge system translate directly into business operations. This knowledge system is an even more pervasive part of every firm’s environment than the banking system, the political system, or the energy system. If there were no language, culture, data, information, and knowledge, apart from the fact that no business could open … Continue reading
Love, peace, comfort, measureless contentment—that was life on the Winchester Estate in 1888. It was a joy to be alive. Pain there was none, nor infirmity, nor any physical signs to mark the flight of time; disease, care, sorrow—one might feel these outside the pale, but not on Mrs. Winchester’s Estate. There they had no … Continue reading
Anyone reading this page has an amazing skill called literacy. It comes as a shock sometimes to remember that all of us had ancestors who were illiterate. Not stupid nor ignorant, but invincibly illiterate. Simply to read was a fantastic achievement in the ancient World. Saint Augustine, writing in the 5th century, refers to his … Continue reading
The word wealth—the last time we checked—turned up in 72 million documents on the Internet, clearly outranked by the 167 million references to God. Mammon, it seemed, was kept firmly in place. Or was it? The problem, it turned out, was the one other term turned up 420 million times—twice as often as God and … Continue reading
A mental disorder has been taking place, reflecting not only individual psychological strain but also the broader social and environmental forces that shape mental health.…
People often assume that sharing a physical environment means sharing a psychological or social reality. Yet this is one of the great illusions of modern…
Surely it could not be alive in there. And yet something stirred — not with the vulgar animation of breath, but with the slow, drifting…
“When the spirit resigns itself to sorrow, it is not the world that conquers us, but we who abandon the field.” What we are describing…
Randolph Harris II International Institute 