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Patchwork Nation: Media Landscape Shifts Online in a Wired Town | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 8, 2009 | PBS

Posted Wed, 12/09/2009 - 22:20 by paulbhartzog
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/media/july-dec09/annarbornews_12-08....

If there is a community well positioned for the demise of a true local daily, it may be the heavily wired, tech-savvy college town of Ann Arbor, Mich.

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10 predictions for the next decade

Posted Fri, 12/04/2009 - 03:13 by paulbhartzog
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http://transmogrifant.com/2009/11/26/10-predictions-for-the-next-decade/

4. We’ll finally get a space elevator. It’ll be made out of carbon nanotubes. It’ll be 100% privately funded.

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How the morons in 2012 should have tried to save humanity instead of the retarded crap they did instead

Posted Fri, 12/04/2009 - 03:08 by paulbhartzog
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http://transmogrifant.com/2009/11/15/how-the-morons-in-2012-should-have-...

1. Don’t go to the government unless you want the most insanely inefficient and time-consuming result possible.

2. Tell everyone as soon as possible.

3. Distribute 3D printers and open source survival pod designs.

4. Kill the monetary system ASAP.

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If this dude can water his whole village with a library book and some shit that was laying around in the yard, you can make a survival pod. Trust me.

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Internet dumbing-down hysteria compared against previous waves of anti-tech backlash - Boing Boing

Posted Mon, 09/21/2009 - 21:26 by paulbhartzog
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/18/internet-dumbing-dow.html

Planning on reading this.
I like the tone of the author,
and I think he groks change in a useful way because he's a linguist.

-p

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Future Knowledge Ecosystems: The Next Twenty Years of Technology-Led Economic Development | The Institute For The Future

Posted Wed, 06/17/2009 - 23:57 by paulbhartzog
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http://www.iftf.org/iasp

possibly like the Flows work we are doing (plus its from Anthony Townsend @ IFTF):

On June 2, Anthony Townsend presented IFTF's forecast on the future of technology-led economic development to over 800 attendees at the International Association of Science Parks' World Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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The Finance 2.0 Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

Posted Tue, 04/14/2009 - 22:00 by paulbhartzog
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http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/04/manifesto.html

There are opportunities for us in the niches that he outlines....

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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Open Money as a necessary next step for democracy

Posted Wed, 03/25/2009 - 10:07 by paulbhartzog
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-money-as-a-necessary-next-step-for-de...

To me it is crystal clear that a single form of currency, debt-issue federal currency, cannot represent the varieties of wealth that we must be able to acknowledge to thereby guide our activities as a global civilization.

I commented on this on p2pfoundation.net blog

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