Monthly Archives: September 2006

‘Dead Words Walking’ audition

I was thinking of Thomas’ presentation at SHiFT. He called it ‘Dead Words Walking’ and I want to add a word.
Good-bye
In today’s connected society and especially for me it has no real meaning. ‘Good-bye’ in my world means ‘Hello’.
I leave places and friends and people that I have just met but I [...]

SHiFTing down

Got up late this morning and missed the speaker’s tour. Shit - woulda liked to go on that. Maybe I’ll see a few at the airport.
I like these conferences - takes me out of my regular world and puts me in an emospace where I don’t get too often. I do too [...]

SHiFT reading list

Sitting at SHiFT and working on my presentation and here are a few sources that are pre-telling the dilema that we face with social change.
INTERNET EVOLUTION
A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems [...]

Connected

Tons of emails but this sorta stuck out for it’s provocation:
Societies have alternated between:

Decentralized societies with slow change that laid the basis of a radically new type of social and economic stage
The resulting centralized societies with rapid economic growth and social development
Following the above patterns, the next stage after capitalism should be [...]