Business – a Thesis Outline

Thesis in Outline – for “the ultimate” in literal brevity

• Business as Commercial Enterprise
  • Contrast: Academic Enterprise (including Arts)
  • Contrast: Government Enterprise
  • Context: Bureaucratic Categories
• Academia at Intersection with Computing and Information Security
  • ARPANET – Participants Included
    • Ivy League Academia (Principal Participants)
    • BBN (Principal Participants)
    • MITRE (Principal Participants)
    • Computer manufacturers, circa [Event] The arrival of the “Traitorous Eight” to Silicon Valley
  • CHAOSNET (MIT) – Contrasted to emerging TCP/IP stack and corresponding standardization by commercial computer manufacturers.
    • Orthogonal Discussion: Distinguishable definitions of Schools of Philosophy in computer systems design – cf. Microprogramming, models of a Microprocessor as a Stack Machine, and broader mathematics (Linear Temporal Logic, Computational Tree Logic, other modal models of logic in theory and applications)
  • Emergence of standards agencies as corresponding to works of material stakeholders in Information Security practices – IETF, NIST, ITU-T
  • BBN subsequently acquired by Ratheon
  • MITRE a not-for-profit enterprise
• Business as Market Phenomenon
  • Market Effects as ends, means, or incidental trends of partially observable economic systems
  • When Political Image Management and Commercial Image Management collude – Material Statism, juxtaposed to philosophies of Political Governance
  • P.T. Barnum’s Economic Studies – not as a misquote, neither as a matter of a competition about the presentation of a Cardiff Giant
  • Tribalism, Folklore, and Economic Theory – “When Social meets Business,” in a context of Perceived Prosperity
  • Sustainable Development – not a gilded goal, a principled premise for development of sustainable economic capacity, material commerce, and economic wellness
  • Alter-Concept: Statism of compulsively exploitative capital institutions – analogy to Thoreau’s Gold-Digger on a Horse
• Capital Resources and Social Morality
  • Philosophical Concept: Ethics as Non-Agenda
  • Philosophical Concept: Knowledge as Non-Commodifiable Asset
  • Historical Commentary: Egalitarian Chicago
    • Resource: People & Events: Charles Lawrence Hutchinson (1854-1924) and the Art Institute of Chicago, from Chicago: City of the Century (Documentary mini-series, 2003. WGBH. Credits)
    •  Broader Concept: Noblesse Oblige
• Conclusion: Developing “DIY Success” in and/or Beyond an Exploitative State

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