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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="14a28280.png" border=0 width="40" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Warning!</div> <div> <B><U>Site-Construction in Progress</U></B></div> <div> <B><U>Building the Future</U></B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com"><U>Lewis Micropublishing</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.omniprise.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.omniprise.net"><U>Omniprise</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.xyztems.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.xyztems.com"><U>Xyztems</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.globalmetasystems.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.globalmetasystems.com"><U>Global Metasystems</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.alternativeanthropology.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.alternativeanthropology.com"><U>Alternative Anthropology</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lewislinks.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewislinks.com"><U>Lewis Links</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hotter-links.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hotter-links.com"><U>Hotter-Links</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.hautlynx.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hautlynx.com"><U>Haut-Lynx</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Lewis Works</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lewis Works"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lewis Works"><U>Lewis Works</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id221.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More Lewis Works"><U>More Lewis Works</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id225.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prospectus of the Lewis Works Framework"><U>Prospectus of the Lewis Works Framework</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="For Future Reference"><U>For Future Reference</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Organization"><U>Table of Organization</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Alternative Frameworks"><U>Alternative Frameworks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A>   |   <B>Retropective</B>   |   <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Frames of Reference"><U>Frames of Reference</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission"><U>Mission</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Prospectus"><U>Prospectus</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coming Soon"><U>Coming Soon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id224.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U>Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id84.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="General Metasystem Model"><U>General Metasystem Model</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How LewisWorks Relates To You"><U>How Lewis-Works Relates To You</U></A></div> <div> <B><U>Retropective</U></B></div> <div> Lewis-Works was first conceived as the result of extended field research and theoretical development in anthropology under a natural systems framework that began, with fits and starts, as early as 1979, and slowly took shape over the following two decades during formal training, research, writing and education devoted primarily to anthropology and secondarily to a broad range of knowledges in the sciences and the humanities. It crystallized as a framework for an integrated applied metasystem in the Spring of 1999 while conducting fieldwork and teaching in central China. A fictitious business name was taken in the Winter of 2000 under the name of Lewis-Works. Between now and 24 years ago, there were many periods of critical development and many periods of set-backs and frustrations. </div> <bR> <div> Developmental operations continued intermittently over the next three years that was marked mostly by organizational planning, theoretical and methodological development of the metasystems framework, and further learning of applied methodologies in various aspects of a natural systems hierarchy.</div> <bR> <div> Lewis-Works, unlike the other subsystems, is organized upon two levels: 1. first as the basis for the overall integration and organization of the subsystems that includes strategic planning; 2. secondly as the primary platform for research, development and implementation of alternative artificial systems that are based upon material process production, centered in a modeling laboratory framework.</div> <bR> <div> Lewis-Works can be best summarized as the strategic center for an alternative business and non-profit organization that is based upon the framework of natural systems theory (Hugh M. Lewis, <A HREF="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publications/NaturalSystems/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publ"><U>2001</U></A>) and the application of metasystems science as operational methodologies to the requirements of complex, heterogeneous problem solving in the world (ibid., <A HREF="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publications/Metasystems/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publ"><U>2002</U></A>, <A HREF="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publications/AdvancedSystems/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewismicropublishing.com/Publ"><U>2003</U></A>). Its principle concern is with the development of alternative artificial systems, especially process and production systems as well as associated organizational and peripheral structures. In this concern it overlaps especially with Lewis Productions and Lewis Metasystems. The various aspects of the Lewis-Works metasystem take definite form and delimited function in terms of strategic interest and implementation along lines of natural and real stratification of problem complexity in the world.</div> <bR> <div> The Lewis-Works metasystem has finally developed into a stable organizational framework and is divided into four main sub-areas or <U>divisions</U> of organization and application, including :</div> <bR> <div>                              </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lewiswebsystems.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewiswebsystems.com"><U>Lewis Web-systems</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lewismetasystems.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewismetasystems.com"><U>Lewis Meta-systems</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lewisdevelopmentsystems.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewisdevelopmentsystems.com"><U>Lewis Development Systems</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.lewismetaculture.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.lewismetaculture.com"><U>Lewis Metaculture</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The primary function of Lewis-Works has been the strategic planning and tactical implementation of designs, the development of alternative process and production systems and associated product lines that are rooted in materials research and development, the development of market frameworks and investment structures for the entire metasystem framework, the coordination and integration of resources between the four main subsystems, and the super-integration of these four subsystems as a single metasystem. The principle concern of Lewis-Works has therefore become one of business and organizational development, including resource identification and deployment of capital assets, project initiation and life-cycle development, development of peripheral and auxiliary support systems, market development and strategic reinvestment from profitable ventures, projects and other lines of production.</div> <bR> <div> Several secondary functions have been planned for Lewis-Works. These include:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Strategic Planning Systems Design, Development and Deployment</div> <div> Meta-systems based Consulting and Real world Troubleshooting</div> <div> Heuristic Learning Metasystems Development</div> <div> Metasystems Modeling</div> <bR> <div> The application of General Systems Theory is neither a dead thing of the past nor an empty promise of the future. It is the unfolding fact of the present. As long as human beings struggle to construct their worlds, and are able to effectively control their own built-in contradictions, the developmental integration of a global metasystem remains an inevitability. It is, in short, the basis for achieved human progress in our world--scientific, technological, environmental and ethical. Ludwig Von Bertalanffy wrote of the concept of finality in place of causality, as systems integration proceeds, from many possible directions, towards a common ground of complex and dynamic equilibrium.</div> <bR> <div> The primary advantage that is realized through Lewis-Works in the application of a meta-systems framework is the capacity for comprehensive expectation and partial control of complex, heterogeneous systems as these occur naturalistically in the real world. The real world is based upon a form of natural integration, and all possible problem sets reflect this integration in an underdetermined and partially stochastic manner. The emphasis of knowledge and expertise within the Lewis-Works framework is away from one of hyper-specialization toward that of generalized comprehension, cross-disciplinary integration, expert "multi-plexing" and flexible, modular, eclectic, encounter application of solutions to real world problem sets.</div> <bR> <div> The realization of Lewis-Works is the realization that future development and globalization does not have to be myopic, hap-hazard, unintentional in its consequences, proceed piece-meal by fits and starts or be defined mostly by cut-throat scramble competition between nations, companies and people. Streamlining of the future skyline can proceed in a deliberate, coordinated and fore-sighted manner. Neither does our collective future need to depend upon parasitic domination and interference competition by a few powerful elite and their social authoritarian control structures. It can be achieved peacefully, without the overhanging threat of war or holocaust. It can be achieved equitably and in a prosperous way for all, without the need for structurally reinforced poverty and human deprivation. In this sense, Lewis-Works is a genuinely revolutionary system in every sense of the word.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <p align="center"> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) </script> <script language="javascript1.2" type="text/javascript"> s=screen.width;v=navigator.appName if (v != "Netscape") {c=screen.colorDepth} else {c=screen.pixelDepth} j=navigator.javaEnabled() </script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function pr(n) {document.write(n,"\n");} NS2Ch=0 if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.charAt(0) == "2") {NS2Ch=1} if (NS2Ch == 0) { r="&size="+s+"&colors="+c+"&referer="+f+"&java="+j+"" pr("<A HREF=\"http://www.TheCounter.com\" TARGET=\"_top\"><IMG"+ " BORDER=0 SRC=\"http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383"+r+"\"><\/A>")} </script> <NOSCRIPT> <a HREF="http://www.TheCounter.com" TARGET="_top"><img SRC="http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383" ALT="TC" BORDER="0" width="88" height="31"></a> </NOSCRIPT>   </div> </td> </tr></table></body>