MI2 measures and analyzes what people are thinking in terms of what they value most -- every day, on a global scale. MI2 also measures economic uncertainty and the likelihood of terrorism.

People desire more freedom, more goodness, more truth, more money, and more justice. They desire less slavery, less evil, less deceit, and less debt. The desires can be facilitated or obstructed by powers -- corporations, economic institutions, social institutions, science and technology, religion, the law --, and world events.
 

What people are thinking and why reflect and affect economic uncertainty; and high levels of economic uncertainty can be exploited for Good or Bad, including terrorism.

The commercial success and security of organizations depend on knowing and understanding what thought variables are at play, their intensities, their correlations, and their commercial and security meanings -- especially the "constructive" and "destructive factors" and security alerts that require immediate executive attention.

GREAT OPPORTUNITIES IN A DANGEROUS WORLD

However, the world is getting more interdependent, more complex, and more dangerous.

The "centers of gravity" of world finance, commerce, industry, and trade have become the target of determined radicals. The insurance losses alone from the September 11 attack have been estimated at about $50 billion.¹ The cost of the attack was estimated at a mere $400 thousand.² The efficiency of the attack was therefore a tragic 1.25x10⁶.

What happens in Jerusalem, Islamabad, New Delhi, Beijing, Buenos Aires, or a "cave" in Afghanistan, affects the State of the World, and the state of the world affects governments and corporations.

The potential for conflicts, political violence, and economic risks has become inordinate. Unfortunately, there are still no automatic means allowing corporations and governments to detect, intercept, or interdict catastrophic world events.

Government and corporate leaders can no longer afford to ignore the State of the World — as encoded in people’s State of Mind. To exploit economic and social opportunities for growth on a global scale, leaders must use measures, not only the State of the Market, but, more importantly, of people’s State of Mind. 

¹ Joseph B. Treaster, The Race to Predict Terror's Cost, NYT, September 1, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/
business/yourmoney/01TERR.html.
² Nicholas D. Kristof, A Toast to Moral Clarity, NYT, Op/Ed, December 27, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/27/
opinion/27KRIS.html

• The State of the World -- 17 global indices in 7 groups: autonomy, ethics, logic, money, justice, science & technology, and religion.
• World events.
• Global "constructive" and "destructive" factors for each index in the 7 groups.
• Global economic uncertainty and global moral uncertainty.
• The likelihood and destructive potential of terrorism entailed in economic uncertainty.

MACROKNOW INTELLECTUAL INTELLIGENCE

• Delivers the only indices that quantify empirically what people are thinking and why, every day, on a global scale.
   
• Monitors and tracks major world events.
   
• Provides global uncertainty indices and global terrorism alert indices, and associated codes and probabilities. The indices alert you about economic vulnerabilities and increases in the likelihood of political violence, including catastrophic terrorism.
   
• Detects and identifies consonances and dissonances (confusion, conflict, or contradictions) in people's minds. Bad consonance can result in huge economic and financial losses (e.g., telecom and dotcom). Hot correlations measure the extent to which the variables that characterize people's state of mind are consonant or dissonant ("out of whack").
   
• Delivers the only indices that measure and track people's global issues and concerns. The Macroknow philosophers indices measure and track people's interests in the giants of philosophy, economics, literature, military theory, and science. Macroknow Intelligence provides a knowledge base of the key ideas of each philosopher. By tracking the top philosophers, you can track the ideas that are moving the world.
  

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