From: Integral World Sent: dinsdag 4 juni 2013 12:17 To: Frank Visser Subject: Why Books are Dead Newsletter Nr. 447 Amsterdam, June 4th, 2013 INTEGRAL THEORY AND THE BIG HISTORY APPROACH - A Comparative Introduction - FRANK VISSER I received a lot of positive feedback on last week's essay on Big History - thanks everybody! For those who have missed it: Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/visser57.html THE CODEX FUNERAL - Why Books are Dead - David Lane I think we can date the day the book died fairly precisely. No, it wasn’t the introduction of the internet in 1969 (though clearly that was the first murder weapon). No, it wasn’t the advent of the Web, as invented by Tim Berners-Lee, on one lonely night in December of 1990. No, it wasn’t even the introduction of Sony’s E-reader or Amazon’s Kindle or Barnes and Noble’s Nook. No, the book died on January 27, 2010. This was when with much fanfare Steve Jobs announced that Apple was coming out with the iPad. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/lane56.html The Inca "TAWA CHAKANA" and Integral Theory's "Four Quadrants" - Can They Together Improve a Scientific and Metaphysical Understanding Needed for Exopolitical Thinking? - Giorgio Piacenza What could be the complementary knowledge between the quadrants of Integral Theory and the sides of the Inca or ANDEAN CROSS? Both systems use complementary dualities and these might provide similar patterns. Could there be a similarity between the Quadrants and the four “suyos” after the Chakana? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/piacenza31.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html