The Internet is The Ultimate Social Network – Let’s Hang On To It

Just when we thought we had finally created a network, a system for connecting, where we could express ourselves freely, think, take initiative, and even air our opinions without too much interference, now the U.S. Congress is still trying to pass legislation that will allow the government to censor the Internet. Read more

We Are All In One Boat

Last July when Italy’s Finance minister Giulio Tremonti drew up their $42bn austerity bill, he went on to compare the current crisis to the sinking of the Titanic, recalling that ‘not even those in first class were spared’ when the famed cruise liner sank 100 years ago in the North Atlantic. Read more

Education System Upgrade

Young people today have big desires, but not for anything that the consumer society—created by the previous generation—has to offer them. They don’t want to live just to go to work every day. They have much greater dreams than we did at their age, and when they don’t see a way to fulfill them, they prefer to do nothing. Read more

Organizing Society for a Sustainable Future

We have a narrow window of opportunity to organize society and get everyone on a sustainable path in preparation for the next stage of humanity’s development. The key to turning things around is a new global education using a method that will provide people of all ages and backgrounds with basic information about global processes. Read more

Unveiling a New Human Prototype

Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren, co-authored Ecoscience in 1977, along with his close colleagues Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich.

In his book, Holdren advocates the following: Read more

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

Excerpts from the book Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives—How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do by Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, Harvard University Professor, who was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, and James H. Fowler, PhD, Associate Professor at the University of California. Read more

Globalization = Common Interests

In general we can divide reality into two parts:

1)    Until today, Nature developed man through the external conditions around us.

2)    Henceforth, man will develop as a part of Nature, through the internal conditions of our social connections. Read more

Researching the Human Network

The ARI Institute would like to recommend viewing Six Degrees of Separation, a fascinating BBC documentary unfolding the science behind the idea of six degrees of separation. Originally thought to be an urban myth, it now appears that anyone on the planet can be connected in just a few steps of association. Read more

Did Irene Really Take Us By Surprise?

The Big Questions

Nature is “communicating” with the U.S. quite strongly lately. The greatest country in the world has no shortage of troubles. You could assume the heightened occurrence and severity of weather disasters are random acts of Nature. Read more

Creating Large Scale Social Change

The fact that depression is the number one disorder in the world at the moment shouldn’t scare us. But what can we try to understand from this? What are the reasons behind the numbers? Read more