Mar
21
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... May you live in rich and interesting times.
By Sandra Fauconnier. Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employers'.
Jan
4
13 out-of-the-box ideas to save the economy
“Debt-ridden and hidebound, Europe may be on the verge of a painful breakup. America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis. Even China and India — the new engines of global growth — seem to be sputtering these days. Worse yet, the usual wonkish prescriptions don’t seem to be working anymore. So we asked 13 of the smartest people we know to give us their one out-of-the-box idea for fixing the global economy. Here’s what they recommend:
- Write off the world’s debt (Paul Kedrosky)
- Hire everybody (Diane Coyle)
- Get better data (Paul Saffo)
- Cut defense spending (Barney Frank)
- Whip up inflation, now (Menzie Chinn & Jeffry Frieden)
- Spend 1 trillion USD on the future (Justin Yifu Lin)
- Raise the minimum wage. A lot. (James K. Galbraith)
- Think small (Vivek Wadhwa)
- Tame the world’s crazy currency system (David M. Smick)
- Buy more yachts (Robert H. Frank)
- Get healthy, get wealthy (Esther Dyson)
- Build green cities (Alex Steffen)
- Take a vacation (Daniel C. Dennett)
“Capitalism is anti-empathy, empathy is anti-capitalist.”
Franco Berardi Bifo (via boringalien)
Jan
3
“What we see is the coming true of an old prediction, that of the Club of Rome, who in the year of 1972 published a report titled The Limits to Growth. Economic growth cannot be infinite, for a very simple reason. Namely that physical resources are limited, as well as the psychic and mental resources of human kind. The network form has hugely enlarged the possibilities of production, but we are limited as human beings.”
Writer and activist Franco Gerardi (Bifo) in an interview with Merijn Oudenampsen for Dutch art magazine Metropolis M.
http://metropolism.com/magazine/2011-no6/decommission-rewrite-and-change/
5 lessons from the best interaction designs of 2011
- Don’t look for breakthroughs.
- Embrace the mundane.
- Don’t buy into the hype.
- Look past the screen.
- Video is the only shortcut.
We Are The Works In Progress: PREORDER THE VINYL (2xLP!) TracklistMoma - Four TetNo Face - Karin...
Tracklist
- Moma - Four Tet
- No Face - Karin Dreijer Andersson
- G Song - Terry Riley
- Nightcrawler - Nosaj Thing
- Berceuse - John Roberts
- Penny Sparkle - Blonde Redhead
- Bird On A Wire - Pantha Du Prince
- In Here The World Begins - Broadcast
- Drip - Liars/Blonde Redhead
Dec
26
Goodiepal
Wonderfully weird. “We need to start to talk to the machines as human beings, bringing and expecting machines to understand what we are saying….in a Utopian future, [my] work is not only made to be appreciated by human minds. No, it’s also meant to be worshiped by all kinds of alternative intelligence.”
Olaf Kolkman was een beetje de baas van het internet
Olaf Kolkman was van 2007 tot 2011 voorzitter van de Internet Architecture Board en daarmee een beetje de hoogste man van het internet in de wereld. Een technicus die voor alles de boodschap uitdraagt: het internet moet volkomen open blijven. Wat de VS, China, Apple en Facebook ook willen.
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