Skip to content
HeyJared

Onward With TIMN…STAC, NOO, and CYBOC too

How further social evolution (TIMN), peoples’ space-time-action beliefs (STAC), emergence of the noosphere and noopoliticS (NOO), and cybercratic governance systems (CYBOC) will affect America’s prospects.

Newsletter · By David Ronfeldt · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
4
Latest publication
Aug 26, 2026
Audience
Checking…
Earliest in this view
Jul 18, 2026
The latest indexed work is over 30 days old. There may be a gap in what we hold.

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    Updating My Views About Netwar (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    About ten days ago I received an invitation from newish Substacker friend Kat_the_Vat to provide some remarks for a three-day hackathon she is helping design and organize that will feature a pro-social netwar game. I gather it’s partly derived from her years of academic and podcast contacts with my old RAND colleague and co-author on netwar matters, John Arquilla. He will participate at the end, helping wrap up the hackathon by identifying lessons-learned and future implications from the game.Ka

  2. Issue · Aug 21, 2026

    Foreword For 2027 Chinese Anthology About The Noosphere (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

    Read excerpt

    In this positive development for my nearly 30 years of efforts to theorize and strategize about the noosphere’s emergence, I’ve not only completed that long new “Ballooning Noosphere” paper. I’ve also fulfilled the unexpected request to write the Foreword for the forthcoming anthology. Its current Chinese citation translates as PAN Tianqun, ed., The Rising of The Global Mind: Refined Readings on the Noosphere (Jiangsu Renmin Press, forthcoming 2027) — but the title may change as the book evolves

  3. Issue · Aug 6, 2026

    “Our Planet’s Ballooning Noosphere” — Final Version Posted Online (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

    Read excerpt

    Whew. The final version is now posted for download on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) site at:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7191638Thanks for reading Onward With TIMN…STAC, NOO, and CYBOC too! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1

  4. Issue · Jul 18, 2026

    New Write-Up About Our Planet’s Ballooning Noosphere — With AEONs (opens the original)

    Excerpt

    Read excerpt

    [UPDATE: I HAVE REPLACED THE INTERIM DRAFT WITH THE FINAL VERSION. THE LINK BELOW STILL WORKS.][UPDATE: I DELETED THE DRAFT AT GOOGLE DOCS, THE FINAL VERSION IS DONE AND SHOULD BE UP AT SSRN.COM IN A DAY OR TWO. I’LL POST ITS URL THEN, AND MAY ALSO DELETE THIS INTERIM POST.]- - - - - - - Oof, two months to the day since I withdrew to assemble my last three posts about the noosphere into, first, a conference presentation, and now, a revised reorganized updated paper (and eventual book chapter).I

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

No verified audience measurement yet.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Onward With TIMN…STAC, NOO, and CYBOC too