In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla has a conversation with Doug McCollough, Executive Director for the Global Institute for the Study of the Intelligent Community.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Alexander Schmidt, CEO & Founder of Bable

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Jim Shea, Founder and CEO of Deepsig.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dr. Norman Jacknis, Senior Fellow for The Intelligent Community Forum.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dr. Norman Jacknis, Senior Fellow for The Intelligent Community Forum.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Frank White, one of the world’s most esteemed authors and space philosophers, and best-selling author who wrote The Overview Effect.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Frank White, one of the world’s most esteemed authors and space philosophers, and best-selling author who wrote The Overview Effect.

“You can’t just say let’s have all this macroeconomic growth and not focus on every district . . . Make sure that you understand that it is a bad thing for America that my district has $10 trillion of company value and other districts are totally in despair.”

– US Congressman Ro Khanna, Democrat representing Silicon Valley district.

Ahh, the digital economy. Supercharged with opportunities your city, county or region can't afford to miss. Software companies. Gaming companies. Silicon chip foundries. Silicon chip designers. Software-as-a-service companies. Makers of computers, tablets, phone and smart watches. Social media companies. Ecommerce companies. Video streaming companies. It’s a vast digital wave washing across the world.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dr. Simon Potter, Director of the College Office of Research Enterprise at New Brunswick Community College.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

If the cliché “Ignorance is Bliss” were true, legal marijuana would go up in smoke. Our ignorance would be sufficient to keep us happily stoned. In our state of Bliss, we would be sublimely governed, assured that our rights were fully secured and knowing that our daily bread would produce loaves plentiful enough for generations. Would World Peace be far behind for dummies and cafones?

But as that bothersomely observant Greek Plato said about ignorance and its consequences, “Those who believe they are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” (Write in your own association to modern times here. _________ I’ll wait.)

One of my heroes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was a sharp observer of the human community. He famously reported on the utter collapse of the family and the coarsening of our social relations. He concluded famously, “We have defined deviancy downward.”