PICSHA Institute – Projects to Integrate Connections, Science and Human Abilities PICSHA Institute Projects to Integrate Connections Science and Human Abilities New Worlds PICSHA is an innovationdevelopment organization focused on building out a new productive infrastructure new tools and methods give us new ways to organize our groups networks and institutions communicate better and govern our affairs more effectively while expanding opportunity health and quality of life for large numbers of people. We regard this infrastructure as a transformative technology like electricity rail or semicondutors which changes the world eliminating barriers reducing costs extending how we live and think and in this case how we combine our efforts in groups and networks to make New Worlds The Blend This technology grows out of the integration or blend of two already welldeveloped areas of work First what is called opendigital the natural evolution of the last fifty years of digital technologies tools of many sorts which are easily combined including a range of representational utilities designed to be easy to use making a nearfuture in which half the population use these tools to describe and coordinate their activity in many new ways. Second human science the collected knowledge of a hundred years explorations into what we are like as a species our hidden incompletely appreciated abilities as well as knowledge of our systematic weaknesses which relentlessly slow our progress. A field which has exploded in the last twenty years to greatly sharpen useful insights but which remains largely invisible and less applied to our practical lives.