Cory Doctorow in Austin
Cory Doctorow was in Austin yesterday on a book tour for his new young adult novel, For the Win. Cory […]
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Arianna Huffington – interviewed by Evan Smith
May 4, 2010 – As part of the Texas Monthly Talks series, Evan Smith interviewed Arianna Huffington, in town to
Futures, Technology
Doug Rushkoff: Program or be Programmed
At dinner the night before he spoke at SXSW Interactive, Doug Rushkoff told me that he had been working a
Futures, Media, News, Science
Information/culture wars
In creating with a history of the “climate fight,” Dr. Spencer Weart has created a history with interesting points about
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State of the World
Time for the 11th annual Bruce Sterling/Jon Lebkowsky State of the World conversation on the WELL. This year we have
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Another shaggy apocalypse story
I should say more about the “Collapse” preview I just posted – don’t want to mislead. For every pile of
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Mac Tonnies
Mac Tonnies would definitely have been part of FringeWare. Check out his bio (though I would disagree with the second
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Moving the furniture
Augmented reality room design! (Thanks to Bruce Sterling for the pointer).
Business, Futures, Sustainability
Doug Rushkoff on Life, Inc.
For the last week and a half, I’ve been leading a discussion with Doug Rushkoff about his new book, Life,
Business, Futures, Technology
Free as in beer
In the New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell runs a sanity test on Chris Anderson’s book Free: The Future of a Radical
Events, Futures, Politics
Our pretense of control
Sanjay Khanna reporting on The New Yorker’s “Next 100 Days” policy summit: [Link] …it seems our human nature leads us
Body, Futures, Technology
Personal health records: the data’s not in (really)
A PHR (Personal Health Records) system like Google Health supposedly “puts you in charge of your health information,” but where
Community, Futures
Thinking about education
Jamais Cascio ponders education, saying first that we need more Sids than Andys, a Toy Story reference. Sid was, according
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Purpose of America
Roy Spence and Haley Rushing say, at Huffington Post, It’s Time to Renew the Purpose of America. This resonates well