While reading 'The
wiki and the Blog' by D. Calvin Andrus, I felt it heartening to note
that the total '
intelligence-decision-implementation' cycle time can
be as short as 15 minutes. This swiftness is
more relevant when
national security is best protected if the nation operates more
quickly than
those who would do harm to the nation. This swiftness is
also essential in this era when the
circumstances to which we respond
develop more quickly. I also found it interesting that the only
way
to meet the continuously unpredictable challenges ahead of us is to
match them with
continuously unpredictable changes of our own.
It sounds somewhat
funny while Shannon showing how to transmit correct messages in noisy
channels holds that the noise in the channel is information in and of
itself and thus can be used to
transmit messages. Shannon further
holds that there is meaning in the noise.
As a part of the
reading, Adam Smith's description of how individuals in pursuing
their economic self
interest create a market for goods and services
is also very interesting. It is noteworthy that this
market has an
invisible hand that decides which goods and services survive over
time and which do
not. It is 'invisible' in the sense that no
individual or group of individuals decides what the market
should
produce or consume. It just 'happens' of the aggregated actions of
large number of individuals.
The individuals are only trying to make
their own lives better. Out of their collective and self
organized
behavior, market behavior emerges.
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