Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Yearning for the vast and endless sea

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009I am currently working on a new publishing project - my ambition to try to find a way to look upon and think about the  world we are currently living in and try to find a way of frameworking and ...

Consumed, nickel and dimed in the land that is their land

Saturday, April 4th, 2009There is no room at the mall.The hope and expectation was that this mass consumption would be the way to deliver many long-sought American goals of greater equality, more democracy, if all Americans prospered and were on a similar footing ...

Transformation in Cologne

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Tomorrow I am speaking at a Nokia Siemens event in Cologne on TransformationTransformation, what is transformation? Transformation represents change and change is the means, by which the future enters our lives. It doesn’t knock or ring the doorbell. It simply, ...

velocity of evolution

Sunday, March 15th, 2009Marking the 20th anniversary of his proposal to create the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said "new changes are going to rock the world even more".The future of the web lies in mobile phones, he said at the research centre in ...

The shopping mall that is Van Diemens land

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009The suburban dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.Wrote J.G. Ballard in Kingdom Come, in fact Ballard's novel ...

System failure – reboot

Saturday, January 31st, 2009I have noticed on my travels around Britain in the last year an interesting the increasing presence of farmers markets and small food co-operatives on the high street, or established in farms or in villages.[caption id="attachment_3164" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Food ...

Human nature and the need for social connection

Friday, January 23rd, 2009[caption id="attachment_3130" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Loneliness by John T.Cacioppo & William Patrick"][/caption]Two cornerstones of classic economic theory are the assumptions that individuals are rational decision makers and individuals have purely self-regarding preferences.  These assumptions fly in the face of most psychological ...

A short story about a long journey

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Here I am chatting away to David Cushman, talking about the things that are important to me and what I think should be important to anyone interested in creating meaningful communications in today's world of No Straight Lines.Looks like the ...

Obama = Engagement

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008[caption id="attachment_3047" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Obama inspires. Hugh McLeod - gapingvoid.com"][/caption]What Obama embodies is something different — a networked model of the relations amongst all of us who are involved in the process of transforming American society. The differences between Obama ...

Daisy makes it a Christmas to remember

Sunday, December 21st, 2008[caption id="attachment_2710" align="alignnone" width="238" caption="Daisy has the right gun for you"][/caption]I came across this on my travels, and I marvel at what this ad tells us. The mixture of the nuclear family, innocence, and the deadly weaponry that they hold ...

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