"This book is a result of an ambitious research agenda I made for myself almost 30 years ago after reading Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies. To me, the open society should have no enemies, we must find a way to build the bridge between Popper's utopian social engineering and piecemeal social engineering, perhaps through the Cyber-enabled Social Movement Organizations and Operations (CeSMO), and that would be my research for the rest of my professional career. I had promised myself to write a book entitled The Open Society and its Friends, and even created a new name for my ambition, Bemonad, for Becoming and Being Gottfried Leibniz's Monad, which was redefined as the atom of intelligence for Popper's Artificial World in the sense of ancient Greek philosopher Democritus' atom for matters in the Physical World. Of course, I realized very soon that it is simply a dream and a mission impossible. However, this had dramatically changed my career path from intelligent control for robotic systems to a mixture of science, technology, engineering, and social studies for complex intelligent systems, or an interdisciplinary approach by today's term, starting from my technical report at NASA/UA Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) on Shadow Systems in 1994 and ending up with the creation of the Program for Advanced Research in Complex Systems (PARCS) at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona in 1999."-- Provided by publisher.