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"Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization" - talk by Parag Khanna:
Smart, interesting, even compassionate analysis. And yet, getting fundamentals very wrong.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says tech companies can regulate themselves:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-tech-regulation-122224156.html #Technology #Politics A creepy, deeply scared man with a creepy agenda -
Waking up the Monkeys: Plant Teachers and the Rediscovery of Nature - by Dennis McKenna
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The Open Source Economy Resources
- Furniture
- Architecture
- Materials
- Seeds
- Agriculture
- https://www.growstuff.org
- Automation
- https://farm.bot/
- https://github.com/marshallamey/hydroponic-automation
- https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/food-server/overview/
- Teleimperium: Fully automated remote control and monitoring of agricultural growing systems: https://hackaday.io/project/5403-teleimperium
- Water
- http://faircap.org/
- Aquaponics
- Management
- Sensors
- https://publiclab.org/wiki/water-sensors
- Open Source Underwater Distributed Sensor Network: https://hackaday.io/project/90610-open-source-underwater-distributed-sensor-network
- Research
- Engineering
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Water scarcity and interstate conflict - Neo-Malthusianism vs. resource optimism – a social capital approach: http://www.awa.asn.au/AWA_MBRR/Publications/Water_e-Journal/03_Kosovac_Water_Security.aspx #Regenerative #Politics
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David Bollier: Viewing Education as a Commons: http://www.livingindialogue.com/interview-with-david-bollier-viewing-education-as-a-commons/ #P2P
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Demography not Democracy is the Future - Lee Kuan Yew
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action - by Elinor Ostrom (1990) (PDF, alt-PDF, Buy). Related: Summary of "Governing the Commons" - by T.A. O'Lonergan,
A map of identified new commons and new commons issues.
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Do Makers Propose a More Open Source Future?
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Open Source and Beyond: Collaborative Development towards an Economy of 'Meaning'
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change - by Victor Papanek:
https://www.amazon.com/Design-Real-World-Ecology-Social/dp/0897331532
Full Book: https://monoskop.org/images/f/f8/Papanek_Victor_Design_for_the_Real_World.pdf
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What's so special about the Mandelbrot Set? - Numberphile
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Drowning in Inefficiency:
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The key objective of tech-giants in the next 10 years is to "disrupt" critical urban infrastructure globally. For fully privatised post-national "public" service providers (Google, Amazon & co), dominating Water, Electricity, Food, Transportation, Logistic, Health, Money, Housing, etc. systems is the missing piece for end-2-end society management. In this context, "AI for Climate Change" is simply a useful Trojan PR horse.
Microsoft wants to unleash its AI expertise on climate change: https://www.fastcompany.com/90334623/microsoft-wants-to-unleash-its-ai-expertise-on-climate-change
What’s critical about critical infrastructure?:
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If humanity wants to survive climate change & mass species extinction - the next 100y will be marked by a radical shift towards life-centrism: A reformation of our relationship to living beings - from plants, animals to humans and ecosystems.
