Clay Shirky

State of the World 2012

• #221: Gail Williams (gail) Thu 19 Jan 12 22:14
  Very interesting! What does the beginner's mind do about all those aging populations unable to pull their own weight?In 1968 there was almost accidentally a huge international sense of generation across cultures in North America, Europe, Japan and elsewhere. It was at first a music driven understanding of identity and common cause, with an emerging outr […]
• #220: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Thu 19 Jan 12 21:43
  We're good for one more day, we'll be holding forth here through tomorrow, Friday, and we'll wrap Friday with a face to face - if you're in Austin, catch us at Chuy's South (William Cannon and MOPAC) around 6pm Friday.I'm watching a replay of the South Carolina Republican Debate, where several candidates are coming down against […]
• #219: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 17:22
  *If you'd like to see this discussion end in a burst of contemporary razzmatazz, you could check out #megauploadon Twitter right now. Megaupload a multinational file-sharing site with an alleged 150 million users whose founders and profiteers just got arrested by US feds. Millions of hackers just got deprived of their customary cheap and easy access to […]
• #218: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 14:47
  *Here's a nice big piping heap of RAND futurist demographics. The takeaway: America has kids, China doesn't. Nah nah nah.*Even the poor, who used to have tons of kids, don't, unless they're Moslem or Subsaharan.http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/2011/winter/dusk-dawn.html"In this article, we turn our focus to the demo […]
• #217: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Thu 19 Jan 12 14:01
  Interesting piece on future scenarios for India; nice example of the process:http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Inayatullah20120114 [Read entire topic] […]
• #216: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 12:59
  *Yves Behar geezer chic. "Old people in big cities who are afraid of the sky." But with awesome design for their medications!http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665857/5-innovation-lessons-from-a-breakthrough-brand-aimed-at-aging-americans#1 [Read entire topic] […]
• #215: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Thu 19 Jan 12 12:06
  And hello from me, as well!Speaking of the future, here's an io9 piece that says big data manipulation is "creating the science fiction future." Their #2, "social networks already know who you know," made me wonder of the author's jumping to conclusions. The idea that LinkedIn can tell who I know is laughable to me - their […]
• #214: Paulina Borsook (loris) Thu 19 Jan 12 10:36
  howdy back, bruce [Read entire topic] […]
• #213: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 09:36
  How are you, @loris Paulina? Long time no see. [Read entire topic] […]
• #212: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Thu 19 Jan 12 09:35
  "Gothic High-Tech" and "Favela Chic." The squalor of this transition is gonna play out for quite a while -- at least a decade, I think. It's not just a one-year state-of-the-world thing."Gothic High-Tech" and "Favela Chic" have their virtues and their upsides, but when they crash directly, like they just did in th […]