Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

For those about to rock – we salute you

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009The 100 best blogs that are interested in and devoted to the idea of change for a better societyVia the FutureGov network

A people will only be free when they control their own communications

Thursday, July 30th, 2009The Guardian writesIn the first of our Activate videos, Gerry Jackson, founder and director of SW Radio Africa, delivers a powerful and humbling presentation on the difficulties of providing independent information to a country stripped of its most fundamental freedoms. ...

Simon Caulkin tells us why its time to Reboot Britain

Sunday, July 5th, 2009At Reboot Britain tomorrow I make the observation that George Soros worried deeply that unfettered capitalism was creating a Cosed Society in which only one thing counted – material success. He argued for an Open Society; a new type of ...

Reboot asks: from social media to social good?

Monday, June 29th, 2009In 1997 Charles Handy wrote a book called the Hungry Spirit, in it he askedCan Capitalism be made more decent and its instrument business work more obviously for the good of all, everywhere?Handy to my mind sits alongside Ivan Illich ...

Reboot asks: what is the highest form of efficiency?

Monday, June 29th, 2009According to Woodrow Wilson it thespontaneous cooperation of free people.Lee Bryant in last weeks Independent – asked the question, whether people power can reboot Britain?Reboot is a event happening next Monday [6th July @ the Savoy Place] exploring what and ...

Mobile Intelligence

Thursday, June 18th, 2009Jamais Cascio talking about mobile intelligence

Rebooting Britain

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009A call to arms has sounded - that hails you and I to be participants,  as Woodrow Wilson wroteThe highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of free people.That's us then!! Reboot Britain shouts from the rooftops ...

Life and commerce in the connectivity of clouds

Saturday, May 16th, 2009Nicholas Carr in his book The Big Switch describes how Edison transformed society, by being able to generate and deliver electricity through a connected network that was previously thought impossible - or had not even been though about at all.The ...

Postcards from the edge – Postville Iowa

Saturday, May 9th, 2009A good friend of mine Richard Ross is in Iowa and he has a story to tell - I leave it to him to tell it in how in his own words.It is not a novel…not even a play. Think ...

When technology & science meets biology; meet the human 2.0

Saturday, May 9th, 2009Fascinating documentary on what happens when technology meets biology

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