Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

Alice holden why putting our hearts and our hands into the land matters

Friday, November 5th, 2010Alice spoke at the Do Lectures this year: the Do team writeAlice represents a small group of young people who are choosing a career on the land. She will tell us how and why the work captured her and perhaps ...

The future of money in a non-linear world

Friday, November 5th, 2010I picked this up from Fast Company today an article about the future of money how we are reshaping a world to work based on more humane principals. This is the quiet revolution in complete contrast the rage of the ...

Blackberry Collaboration Forum 2010 Alan Moore keynote

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010This is the presentation keynote that I gave on my Latin American tour. Firstly, I address the culture shock that many feel at present, as we transition from an industrial world to a non-linear one - the world of No ...

Incubate 2.0 and the networked enterprise

Thursday, October 28th, 2010As many of you know the No Straight Lines project is picking up apace (sxsw keynote) (Do Lecture) (Latin America tour - to come). As a consequence of the work I have been doing with a small team, we have ...

A compassionate society understands fairness

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Twenty years ago, Ernst Fehr had a seemingly sensible idea – that a deep-seated human preference for fairness might play an important role in economics. He writes,A substantial number of people exhibit social preferences, which means they are not solely ...

Our 2.0 destiny with data

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010Refined Data, is the black gold of the 21st Century (SMLXL posts on data) something we have been writing about since 1995. We even wrote a book about it, as did Tony Fish (My Digital Footprint) So now The World ...

We educate kids in batches

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

The Futures Agency takes off

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010I am proud to be part of the Futures Agency today which launches officially today. Gerd writes,Today I am delighted to officially announce my new company, The Futures Agency (TFA). TFA is based in Basel, Switzerland and is currently comprised ...

The problem with Murdoch’s media

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010Henry Porter discusses some of the key criteria as to why Vince Cable has such an important contribution to  make in controlling total media and therefore political power currently wielded by Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. This follows on ...

tattoos, identity and meaning [2]

Saturday, October 9th, 2010I am writing this post as my old friend David O'Hanlon asked a question to my post on Tattoo's, identity and meaning that I think requires a somewhat in-depth response. Patrick Skinner is a PHD student at Cambridge University, his ...

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