Hypersonic Planes - Are you ready for some jet lag

For the purpose of this discussion, the innovation that I will be discussing is Super Fast travel. The idea presented, is that individuals would be able to travel to their respective destination faster than normal, due to the dislike and the long hours required for travel. Personally, I think its a good idea and according to other scholars testing is already underway with the development of the technology known as Hypersonic planes (Halal, 2008). With the development of this type of plane, it has been stated that a trip for the east coast of the US to Asia will be condense from 30 hours to 3.  Scholars believe that about 30% of long flights will be using this technology by 2028 (Halal, 2008). Are you ready for some JET LAG? Beware of Aerospace International coming near you.




Reference:

Halal, W. (2008). Technology's Promise: Knowledge on the Transformation of Business and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, NY.

Community-Based Co-Laboratory of Democracy

The case study I chose to discuss is “Community-Based Co-Laboratory of Democracy. The case is about a community using the SDP to define the future of the community as a whole. First, the study discussed how the community generated 42 distinct intentions in one working session by voting subsequently and subjectively. Next, during the afternoon session stakeholders used strategic dialogue to discuss the 12 most important intentions and a tree was developed to depict the level of importance.

Of the 12 most important intentions, the two most important intentions to the group were identified. Overall, SDP in this situation proved to be a better technique for group decision making over the Robert rules of order. Therefore, one should consider SDP when group decision making is involved if their current process is not effective.

Christakis, A. N., & Bausch, K. C. (2006). How people harness their collective wisdom and power to construct the future in co-laboratories of democracy: Information Age Publishing.