Posted on 08/23/2016 7:39:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In 2012 an article appeared in a specialist journal called Economics and Law written by an "AE Vaino" - widely believed to be one and the same person as Mr Putin's new chief of staff.
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Written in a dense academic prose ... and accompanied by even more complex charts and diagrams, the article outlines new ways of organising and understanding society.
Mr Vaino argues that the economy and society in general have become too complex to manage by traditional means. Governments need to seek new ways of regulating and controlling them.
The article describes a new device called a "nooscope" which, it says, can tap into global consciousness and "detect and register changes in the biosphere and in human activity".
The "nooscope" bewildered many in Russia this week. Does the device really exist, they asked. What does it actually do? Is Mr Vaino really serious?
BBC Russian tracked down Viktor Sarayev, an award-winning economist and businessman who has co-authored a number of articles with Mr Vaino.
He described the nooscope as "a device that scans transactions between people, things and money", and claimed it was an invention of parallel significance to the telescope and the microscope.
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"If we evaluate this article by its meaning, then without doubt it's a cause for concern," says another philosopher from the same institute, Prof Vitaly Kourennoy.
"It represents a utopian idea which has no connection to science. It's propounding some kind of all-embracing system of government that has to be enforced by top officials."
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If AE Vaino the political scientist and Anton Vaino the new chief of staff really are the same person, as most Russians presume, then the coming months may show if the nooscope can really deliver a "better tomorrow".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
It sounds like an NSA-type program. How else would one collect and monitor transactions?
Of course, getting the data is only the first part. Making sense of it comes next.
Sounds fake, if you ask me.
What’s wrong with NOT managing everything? Or even most of everything? Or even a significant portion of everything?
We need Regulatory Decapture ... not more management.
Agreed!
The Russians love algorithms.
Be interesting to compare this to what John Boyd was working on.
Simple really.
You want to know what people desire? Look at what they are buying and paying more for.
The free market does this quite well whenever it is allowed to.
What about a society governed by the Golden Rule? I
believe that this is how we will be governed by Christ
at His return. It won’t be a democracy or anything we’ve
known before. - It’s nearer for all of us than we can even
imagine; although we do know for sure that this MESS that
exists now is NOT working - nor will it work.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
“It’s propounding some kind of all-embracing system of government that has to be enforced by top officials.”
Didn’t they try that once with the hammer and sickle?
It also sounds like the “We have to pass the bill so we can find out what’s in it” crowd we have in Washington.
Yup!
It doesn’t sound much different from what Google, FB ect are doing already to control people and sell products.
To hell with the 'invisible hand' of a politically free people... replace it with the fist of a Brave New World
Sadly for the thugs of the world, drawbacks include cultural suicide. - Like what's happening in Germany and to a lessor degree - in Russia. And among white people in all Western Cultures... people deciding NOT to have children - no 'next generation' for the goons and 'elites' to manipulate and damage.
The new Lysenkoism?
Sounds like something from late night radio.
“Governments need to seek new ways of regulating and controlling them. “ i don’t like it already
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