Cambrian Lounge hosted Don Tapscott, the author of Wikinomics. Don Tapscott spoke at length about how continually lowering collaboration costs have moved us from vertically integrated organizations, to today's crowdsourcing movement.
This proposal comes from an international team of researchers — in climate modeling, atmospheric chemistry, economics, agriculture and public health — who started off with a question that borders on heresy in some green circles: Could something be done about global warming besides forcing everyone around the world to use less fossil fuel?
India can be a great power, ushering in a game changing third industrial revolution by utilising its renewable energy resources and collaborating with power producers and suppliers, says American economist and author Jeremy Rifkin.
Andrew Nosnitsky combines archived quotes from Gil Scott-Heron and original interviews with those who knew him to present a full picture of the late poet, novelist, singer, songwriter, pianist, satirist, and father of four.
We are very excited to have John Holloway (Professor, Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla), one of the worlds leading theorists of capitalism and resistance, come to ...
The Yorkshire Post reports on the Leeds Occupy movement and interviews John Holloway, author of Crack Capitalism and Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, who has just started a ...
"Common experience shows that world is moving along scenario (a) that is standard run – and I shall contend that the world has so far shown neither the political wisdom nor the economic ingenuity to do any better – the analysis of last 30 years of historical data compares favorably with the Standard Run Scenario prediction, which results in the collapse of global systems midway through 21st Century or 2050 AD."
What the impossible hamster has to teach us about economic growth. A new animation from nef (the new economics foundation), scripted by Andrew Simms, numbers...
Planning and Finances Minister, Jorge Giordani, pointed out that the growth of Venezuelan economy, estimated in 5% for 2012, will continue sustaining inclusive social policies adopted by the Government.
What will happen in 2012? In the spirit of the aphorism “The future is not something to be predicted, it’s something to be achieved,” let me suggest 20 transformations (which Reuters will publish in four groups of five). We need to make progress on these issues now to prevent next year from being a complete disaster.
New York Times columnist David Brooks will speak with the Nobel Laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman about the latter’s influential career and his new book (Teachers overconfident with their beliefs about the world | Framing empathy & a conversation...
Libertarianism has many historical roots. Some of the darker roots are the self-justification of powerful social groups that wish to deny society's responsibility to weaker and poorer members of society. Racism and libertarianism have had their dalliance, as Ron Paul's personal journey makes plainly evident. Even today, Paul opposes the civil rights legislation of the 1960s on the ground that society has no right to deny the "liberty" of racist behavior. Even if Ron Paul himself is no racist, he gives comfort to racists.
These are the apps made by outside developers that "frictionlessly" and continuously share users' actions back to Facebook after a user has given permission once. (get ready for social app revolution!
Don't look now, but Iceland's economy is growing. Tourism is up, the standard of living remains high, and unemployment is down to 7%. "For a country whose entire financial system collapsed,... World News Summaries.
Interesting article in the Times about the push for “open science”, bypassing the traditional structure of refereed journals in favor of a sort of fluid, self-policing online community. I can’t and won’t weigh in on this issue with regards to hard science, but I think there are some interesting parallels with what has been happening in economics.
Occupy's Future Could Be Found in France's PastPatch.comWhile Occupy New Haven meets at the Bourse, a scholar looks for historical parallels for the Occupy movement in 19th century France.
The stupendous fortunes that were-and still are being extracted by the European and North American investors should remind us that there are very few really ...
How much stuff is enough stuff? At what point should we worry a bit less about getting and spending and devote more time and energy to other things? As government austerity measures, shrinking incomes, and postholiday bills make us feel the squeeze on our wallets, it’s an especially good time to ask questions like these. The holidays should be putting us in mind to savor our close relations with friends and family and to ask ourselves what we can do to ease the burdens of others. Instead they seem mostly to add stress. Gift buying adds to our to-do lists even though our plates are already overfull of other responsibilities and our bank accounts, in these hard times, are perilously close to empty. The holidays should be a time of joy, but they seem, increasingly, to be a time of misery.
The largest urban park in the contiguous United States is coming to Chicago.
A new project, backed by at least $17 million from the state, aims to turn 140,000 acres of under-used and post-industrial land along the Second City's southern rim into a public recreation hub called the Millennium Reserve.
Today, January 17th marks a very important date in the recent history of labour struggle in Greece – responding to, and in solidarity with the struggle of the workers at Greek Steelworks, the six Labour Centres of Greater Athens (Attica) and the Workers/Employees Union of Athens have called a city-wide strike.
Statistics from Erik Qualman's Social Media Revolution video. 2012 Social Media Statistics. (coooool. some stats about the social media revolution. in video form!
TED Talks Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently.
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