From DSmith2361@aol.com Thu Apr 2 12:23:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: from alig1.firewall.lucent.com by bighorn.dr.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-1.3.1 sol2) id MAA02610; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:23:49 -0700 Received: by alig1.firewall.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-L sol2) id OAA18788; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:36:52 -0500 Received: by alig1.firewall.lucent.com (SMI-8.6/EMS-L sol2) id OAA18670; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:36:42 -0500 To: 103035.3111@compuserve.com, calebb@teleport.com, daugust@spiritone.com, dmarker@nwppc.org, josborne@europa.com, KKrause105@aol.com, lfred@pps.k12.or.us, lhowe@teleport.com, marshas@cha.org, mulan@ix.netcom.com, nancy.stueber@omsi.edu, nealmcb@lucent.com, njesuale@ci.portland.or.us, pete@khdmh.com, ROconnorii@aol.com, Stiefelma@kpnw.org, sue_ridge@class.orednet.org, tbakke@informationage.com, viacalx@europa.com, vmegler@vnet.ibm.com, winnie@pdxcityclub.org, zzmeb@plaza.ds.adp.com Received: by algw1.lucent.com; Thu Apr 2 14:27 EST 1998 Received: from DSmith2361@aol.com by imo16.mx.aol.com (IMOv13.ems) id 3UGOa15786; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:15:01 -0500 (EST) From: DSmith2361 Message-ID: <7c04048d.3523e3b7@aol.com> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:15:01 EST Original-To: 103035.3111@compuserve.com, calebb@teleport.com, daugust@spiritone.com, dmarker@nwppc.org, josborne@europa.com, KKrause105@aol.com, lfred@pps.k12.or.us, lhowe@teleport.com, marshas@cha.org, mulan@ix.netcom.com, nancy.stueber@omsi.edu, nealmcb@lucent.com, njesuale@ci.portland.or.us, pete@khdmh.com, ROconnorii@aol.com, Stiefelma@kpnw.org, sue_ridge@class.orednet.org, tbakke@informationage.com, viacalx@europa.com, vmegler@vnet.ibm.com, winnie@pdxcityclub.org, zzmeb@plaza.ds.adp.com Cc: dklewis@teleport.com, dfindley@teleport.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Tech & Biz Agenda for April 9, at 7:30 am Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Mac sub 72 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 2501 Status: OR OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ! The Superior Committee for Technology & Business for the City Club, Count= y of=0AMultnomah, State of Oregon, will be in session on Thursday, April = 9, at 7:30=0Aa.m., 10th Floor, Loyalty Building, 317 SW Alder. Come and = bring a defendant=0Aor two. The Honorable (but disreputable) D. Smith, p= residing and making the=0Acoffee. For the short calendar, Sir K. Krause will make a motion to create a clas= s=0Aaction for the next science breakfast on April 30 on neuroscience. H= e will=0Amove for a class of at least 25, preferably more. He is looking= for a few=0Agood neurons and some amber waves of brain. The main trial event was to feature Paula Jones, but her case has been=0A= dismissed for lack of merit. She has appealed to the Court of Playboy, w= here=0Ashe will bare all the details of her case in a graphic display of = evidence=0Ahitherto unknown to the legal profession (the second oldest in= history). Moving up on the trial list, John Wood, plaintiff's attorney extraordinai= re,=0Awill appear and present his case entitled "Thinking Technologies: = The=0AUltimate Competitive Advantage." For those who like to think in te= rms of=0Aarchetypes to avoid the snapping of synapses, John has assured t= he court that=0Aarchetypes are a subset of this topic. As a non-lawyer, this will be the first time John has appeared as a lawye= r,=0Ataking his cue from Portia in The Merchant of Venice, although he be= lieves in=0Athe modern ideas of a kilogram of flesh, an eye for an eye, a= nd a clone for a=0Aclone. John has spent his career outside the law. John was our first speaker in the Secrets of the Learning Organization se= ries=0Ain 1996. He will look at organizational development from a scient= ist's=0Aperspective=97how organizations develop and evolve, borrowing fro= m the physical=0Asciences. He is interested in how science and technolog= y help to explain non-=0Aentropic processes=97value-adding processes. (T= his sounds suspiciously like the=0Ascience of complexity.) Entropy, as y= ou recall from your Gilbert Physics and=0AChemistry Kit, was the son of E= ros (and you know what chaos he has caused over=0Athe years, recently pus= hing both Mars and Venus out of their sedentary orbits=0Ainto black holes= of despair.) Stephen Hawking has even said that Entropy=0Ameasures the = degree of disorder in a system=97and takes great pleasure in doing=0Aso. Court adjourns at 9:00 a.m. sharp, but not as sharp as it used to be.