Review (Guest): The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

Moises Naim 4.0 out of 5 stars What kind of power, for whom, and for what?, May 31, 2013 By Tom Atlee (Eugene, OR USA) – See all my reviews Moises Naim’s new book THE END OF POWER should properly be called “The Decay of Power”. His thesis is that while it is becoming easier …

Berto Jongman: McKinsey 12 Technologies Driving the Future — With Comment from Robert Steele

These 12 technologies will drive our economic future Neil Irwin Washington Post, 24 May 2013 As the chart shows, the McKinsey folks believe that the most economically significant technologies over the next decade-plus will be those already well underway in their development — the mobile Internet, largely in place in the adv Indeed, maybe the …

Jean Lieven: Local Motors Replay — Transformation of Design, Manufacture, and Sale of Personal Transport Vehicles

Green innovation: how Local Motors is revolutionalising the way cars and bikes are designed, manufactured and sold Alan Moore, Guardian Sustainable Business 22nd May 2013 Local Motors shares its innovations and lets customers be part of the car-building process, while keeping it local. Last year, I spoke at Shanghai’s Radical Design Week about the transformational …

Marina Gorbis: The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class — Provided You Have a Hand-Held Device

The Future Of Education Eliminates The Classroom, Because The World Is Your Class Written by: Marina Gorbis Massive Open Online Courses might seem like best way to use the Internet to open up education, but you’re thinking too small. Technology can turn our entire lives into learning experiences. This probably sounds familiar: You are with …

Jean Lievens: Peer production & Modularity — A Lego Experiment

Peer production, modularity & voxels: The RepRap-based, Lego-built 3D printing-milling machine This research project aims to shed light on the conditions of transferability of Commons-based peer production (CBPP) processes to physical manufacturing. We draw from the political economy of CBPP and its conjunction with digital, desktop manufacturing technologies, the concept of “voxels”, and the case …

Owl: Why Obama Will Survive Five Scandals, Persist on Syria, & Risk WWIII

The real story here is not whether Obama will survive five Watergate-type scandals, but it is rather about his response to scandals in his administration will lead to WWIII. Here are key take-aways from this first article: “In the last eight months, I have repeated the mantra that most of what drives this government today …