Occupy Big Business: The Sharing Economy’s Quiet Revolution
“This new shared market economy is being driven by a quiet revolution: the millions of Americans who no longer want to prop up our faltering economy with endless and thoughtless consumption. They...
View ArticleEndgame of an Era
As a civilization we are in the throes of living out an “endgame.” No, not the endgame of our species or any similar dire situation, but the endgame of an era. For many of us living in the developed...
View ArticleThe Mirror in Us: Mirror Neurons & Workplace Relationships
Emotions and actions are powerfully contagious. When we see someone laugh, cry, show disgust and experience pain, in some sense we share those feelings. When we see a great actor, musician or athletic...
View ArticleAfrica Unchained: The (P2P) Revolution at hand
Simone Cicero writing in Domus: The fundamental moment in which design becomes a political tool has arrived. Whatever we choose to call it — P2P culture, peer production movement, open-P2P-design —...
View ArticleOpportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future
Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of the world’s increasing prosperity and economic growth since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Our use of energy in...
View ArticleOwning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people across the world...
View ArticleThe Real Revolution Is Openness, Clay Shirky Tells Tech Leadersl
Mr. Shirky took that message to a group of higher-education-technology leaders who have been buffeted by a rapidly evolving ed-tech landscape. Mr. Shirky, in a keynote speech kicking off this year’s...
View ArticleClimbing Trillions Mountain: a field guide to the Internet of Things
A fourth revolution (after the agricultural, industrial and information revolutions) is almost upon us: the age of the ‘trillion-node network’, also known as The Internet of Things. Widespread...
View ArticleMaker Mindset : Learning Creative Learning p.15
Dale Dougherty, the editor and publisher of MAKE magazine writes: The origin of the Maker Movement is found in something quite personal: what I might call “experimental play.” When I started Make...
View ArticleUrban farmers join green revolution in South Africa
See on Scoop.it – Arrival Cities Urban farmers in Africa are increasingly being recognized as important contributors to the green sector. … more small farmers are needed to make Africa...
View ArticleUAS Attracting Interest From New Users but Still Prompt Worries, Speakers Say
See on Scoop.it – Rise of the Drones AUVSI President and CEO Michael Toscano appeared alongside MIT’s Missy Cummings to discuss the state of the technology. Integrating unmanned aircraft into the...
View ArticleToil and trouble – Another bubble? Some tech start-ups look over-valued...
Amplify’d from www.economist.com For the first time since 2000, internet and technology entrepreneurs can raise seed capital with little more than a half-formed idea and a dozen PowerPoint slides....
View ArticleThe New Constitution –“Behind every information architecture a power...
written by @shiftctrlesc, inspired by @stoweboyd read the entire short piece from the source. Amplify’d from cloudhead.headmine.net [29Jan11] Stowe Boyd is imagining a New Constitution that would...
View ArticleA “Must Read”– How the Internet Gets Inside Us
by Adam Gopnik Just the intro, be sure to click through to the original article…wide reaching! Amplify’d from www.newyorker.com the first Harry Potter book appeared, in 1997, it was just a year before...
View ArticleThe ‘Democratization Of Energy’ Will Change Everything
“The Third Industrial Revolution will move apace over the next several decades, probably peaking around 2050, and plateau in the second half of the 21st century. Already, in the shadow of its ascending...
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