The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hope you saw author Michael Lewis’s article in The New Republic on how great wealth encourages bad behavior among the rich Extreme Wealth Is Bad for Everyone—Especially the Wealthy. He writes that “a body of quirky but persuasive research has sought to understand the effects of wealth and privilege on human behavior … one study … [found that] people driving expensive cars were four times more likely to cut in front of other drivers than drivers of cheap cars.”
See Also:
Four scenarios for the inevitable P2P Future
P2P and networked technologies are here to stay, are expanding, and will become the dominant technological format. Yet, that doesn’t mean at all that the future is a foregone conclusion. Around these technologies we will see political and social struggles that will involve ownership and governance (control), and also their mobilization by social forces having their own worldviews, interests and agenda.
To distinguish various futures, I have produced a impromptu four quadrant structure according to two axes:
When Kevin Kelly looked up the definition of ?superorganism? on Wikipedia, he found this: ?A collection of agents which can act in concert to produce phenomena governed by the collective.? The source cited was Kevin Kelly, in his 01994 book, Out of Control. His 02014 perspective is that humanity has come to dwell in a superorganism of our own making on which our lives now depend.
The technological numbers keep powering up and connecting with each other. Their aggregate is becoming formidible, rich with emergent behavior, and yet it is still so new to us that it remains unnamed and scarcely considered.
Continue reading “Stewart Brand: Kevin Kelly on Holos Rising”
Exclusive Worldwide Premier (Free for 10 Days)
The world is becoming more toxic… and modern technology can't fix it. But human history can.
Your fork is the most powerful weapon in the world — use it wisely. Eat right, save the Earth.
Tools & Wisdom: www.well.org (Free for 5 Days)
How the Sharing Economy is Booming Without Hurting the Environment
LIST ONLY
1. Minimizes manufacturing costs
2. Minimizes distribution costs
3. It lessens the need for consumption
4. It brings awareness to green strategies
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: How the Sharing Economy is Booming Without Hurting the Environment”
See Also:
We can see the power of distributed, crowd-sourced business models every day — witness Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb. But veteran online activist Jeremy Heimans asks: When does that kind of “new power” start to work in politics? His surprising answer: Sooner than you think. It’s a bold argument about the future of politics and power; watch and see if you agree.
“New power is the deployment of mass participation and peer coordination — these are the two key elements — to create change and shift outcomes. And we see new power all around us. … Old power is held like a currency. New power works like a current. Old power is held by a few. New power isn't held by a few, it's made by many. Old power is all about download, and new power uploads. And you see a whole set of characteristics that you can trace, whether it's in media or politics or education.”
