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"This is why I think geoengineering is going to happen. Desperate people do desperate things, and when you hear sober scientists say things like population "carrying capacity estimates [are] below 1 billion people" in a world of 4 degree warming, it's hard to argue convincingly that the uncertainty and risks around geoengineering are worse."
Via Jessica Margolin
Joe Justice is the ideator of Team Wikspeed: a team of volunteers distributed around the world who recently created a prototype car that is open source, modular and ultra-efficient in just three months, using processes borrowed from software development, the world from which Joe comes from. In addition to being a visionary, Joe is a fantastic and discussion prone person and this interview contains a very open and fruitful discussions I had with him at the end of April. I recommend you read it because it will be useful to you to understand how manufacturing – and consumption – are fated to change in coming years if, as Joe says, we want to continue living on this planet for a while. 
"The New Economics Foundation (NEF) says there is nothing natural or inevitable about what’s considered a "normal" 40-hour work week today. In its wake, many people are caught in a vicious cycle of work and consumption. They live to work, work to earn, and earn to consume things" In this old (2010) but great RSA Animate video, renowned academic David Harvey actually tells the story of the Crises of Capitalism in a way that is clear and straightforward. Very recommended 
"The sharing economy is built more on convenience and the desire to save money than a mission to save the world. But does that matter?"
A very interesting point raised by Sami Grover 
Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — a site that serves as a platform for academics to share their research papers and to interact with each other - talks the future of science. From overcoming traditional publishing platforms to Rich Multimedia - blog like - publishing. 
Interesting quote: "As the CEO of Europe’s number one ride-sharing network, people always ask me, “But how do you get into a car and share a ride with a complete stranger?” I always find this question a bit of a misnomer because, today, when you step into a car through carpooling.com, you already have a lot of information about that person with whom you will be sharing a car. You certainly don’t have that same level of information when you step onto train or bus, or even climb into a taxi. Just as we have moved the stuff of our physical lives to the digital realm, there is also a new digital overlay on everything we do “IRL.”" 
The Economist covers the several drivers that will lead us to the third industrial revolution 
Tracking everything has become easy and feasible thanks to storage costs falling down and pervasive connectivity and embedded computers. From pieces of hardware to new applications we have now several ways of gather data and compare it to generate insights about us and society. This post from the Economist is a good starting poing to get in touch with the "quantified self" movement. 
This post from Michel Bauwens on Shareable covers the potential evolution of state that becomes a facilitator for an ethical, commons based economy. A very comprehensive post that covers also Extreme/Local/Liquid Manufacturing and the role of fablabs/hackerpaces and commons blueprint librares. 
In the same way that the Internet radically reduced entry costs in generating and disseminating information, giving rise to new businesses like Google and Facebook, additive manufacturing has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of producing hard goods, making entry costs sufficiently lower to encourage hundreds of thousands of mini manufacturers -- small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) -- to challenge and potentially outcompete the giant manufacturing companies that were at the center of the First and Second Industrial Revolution economies. 
What has P2P to do with politics? Isn't peer-to-peer related to file sharing and pirated media? As a matter of fact, peer-to-peer is not just a popular set of tools and technologies to easily share and distribute digital content, but it is also a new fascinating study field that analyzes how we could approach our future by working and operating in a collaborative and sharing fashion rather than in a competitive and exploitative one. Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/peer-to-peer-politics-and-its-vision-for-the-future/#ixzz1qOwaVoQJ 
Europe's young people are bearing the brunt of the fallout from the collapse of the financial system and the struggle to save the Euro. In Britain, youth unemployment has topped one million. In Greece, the rate is nearly 50%.
The good news is that there is work and there's actually quite a lot that we can do to create it. But it's not going to be work like we've been used to — nor can we provide it or find it the old-fashioned way.
Specifically, we need to accept that:
- The world is undergoing a structural change. Just as we moved from machines to electronics after the second world war, now we are moving into a new age where all business is driven by networks, and the remote control to your life is your mobile phone. That means that the jobs you can get may not be like the jobs you had. |
Despite being not so innovative in terms of technology (it uses a couple of Makerbot printers) it's quite revolutionary in terms of access model! The Center for New American Dream ( http://www.newdream.org ) Produced this fun animation that provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could really be. Simplistic but very inspiring. 
Las Indias collective creates a Booklet to empower a new P2P Industrial Revolution in your city With the Pebble Watch story (Raised > 8 M$ - from a 100k goal), kickstarter tells of a radical new way of getting ideas funded by the very same users http://t.co/I2e6UzjJ 
This video explains well how much the wikispeed concepts are revolutionary. This is actually a continuously improving car. Car 2.0 I would say. See this video What happens when scale, the ultimatly competitive advantage gets commoditized? Pebble Smart Watch Raises +$5M On Kickstarter After Asking For $100K http://t.co/JnMKm9dO marvels of crowdfunding > http://t.co/EFQxHPvx... 
Amazing post that tries to delineate the landscape of the next years where the future innovations will take place.
Excerpt: "Can we replace everything we use now with something else? It’s not at all clear that we can. We have to think about reusing things much more, holding onto things longer and using them more efficiently; rebuilding our cities, our towns, our landscape to be much more energy efficient and resource efficient. So the innovative research and technologies of the future will really be about efficiency" 
One trader said Bitcoin is his “second job” estimated 90 percent of traders have bought Bitcoin. “It is a better form of money than we have right now, or than anyone has designed so far,” he told Retuers anonymously. 
As a reader who regularly follows the blog knows, in my latest piece I introduced some new concepts about the theory of niches and, in particular, I focused on showing how communities finally won a productive and inspirative role into the new cooperative product cycle that is gradually establishing. This piece, instead, is mostly about how businesses can thrive by collaborating with communities: means, perspectives, "places" and phases. 
It has been a long time now since Chris Anderson first described as niches became more commercially attractive due to lower production costs of digital goods. According to the vision behind the long tail, niches commercially compete with a traditional mass market approach since a market made of lots of small niches would equal the size of a mass market: this actually gives the possibility to exist even to those small digital producers with a loyal fanbase: if costs are low, even a few fans/clients would support a creative producer. The substantial difference (or rather a substantial acceleration in this transition) that is emerging today is that niches and communities, are gaining a more and more active role in the inspiration, design, and, increasingly, even in financing and in the production itself of any product or service. 
A comprehensive analysis about how the economy has changed in a non reversible way.
Contains also a list of five reasons setting out why the kinds of growth rates seen between 1945-73 are not replicable among the nations of the OECD today. |
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