Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

Reboot asks: are we ready for more open and transparent government?

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Micah L. Sifry writing in the Independent, explores this idea,On his first full day in office, U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive memorandum that may someday be seen as signaling the most important ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jamais Cascio on mobile Intelligence

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Jamais Cascio spoke about Mobile Intelligence at MoMoIn this video Jamais Cascio talks about Mobile Intelligence (”Your Brain’s Future, Mobilized”). This is about the Augmented Future: augmented awareness, augmented society, augmented environments… He sketches 3 possible futures: participatory, interconnected and ...

Modern folk poetry. A bit of ohhhhhh ahhhhhh Cantona

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009I was struck by this article about football chants - though I have to profess unlike many of my compatriots - I do not share the abiding obession with the offside rule.[caption id="attachment_3933" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8143973@N03/543005626/"][/caption] But Tom Lamonts article about ...

When technology & science meets biology; meet the human 2.0

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

The communications revolution driven by technologies of cooperation

Friday, May 8th, 2009The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedBY GIL SCOTT-HERONYou will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and ...

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 ...

Straight line thinkers struggle in a world of no straight lines

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009John Naughton writes about CP Snow's big idea that in the UK we were divided by "two cultures".Snow's Big Idea was that there were "two cultures" in our society - that of the "literary intellectuals" (as he called them) and ...

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