June 20, 2012

Made me think: Article: From Smart House to Networked Home | WFS

Take a look at this interesting piece: From Smart House to Networked Home | World Future Society

"Personal devices will be largely untethered from wired power and data connections" My comment: first wireless broadband sets us free, then wireless power empowers us-- but then we become prisoners of the cloud (aka the grid) ...?

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Jun 20, 2012 8:57:56 PM | Bottom Lines, Data is the new Oil

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Some quotes from Yoshai Benkler's latest book: The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest Via my Kindle shared bookmarks feed, some seriously insightful stuff from one of my favorite intellectuals, Yoshai Benkler. "The shift toward a more optimistic, human, and humane view (of human society) —that we as individuals can be motivated to productive ends by engaging one another socially and creating collaborative relationships—extends far beyond the business world or the networked environment" "Through the work of hundreds of scientists, we have begun to see mounting evidence in psychology, organizational sociology, political science, experimental economics, and elsewhere that people are in fact more cooperative and selfless, or at least behave far less selfishly, than most economists and others previously assumed..." "In practically no human society examined under controlled conditions have the majority of people consistently behaved selfishly.. The promise of cooperation is not some silly utopian dream. It is grounded in some of the best work and most rigorous research in behavioral science" "When any relatively stable and coherent system—an economy, a country, or a community—suffers a shock, it leads to a new flexibility, a new openness to different ways of explaining our world and organizing our lives. This is the way we come to reexamine old practices, try new ones, and adapt to the changes happening around us..." Read this book here: The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
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Cool video with data visualizations: America revealed: Pizza Delivery | PBS UK America Revealed 7.50pm, Starts Wednesday 20th June 2012 PBS (UK) Sky channel 166 Virgin Media 243 AMERICA REVEALED takes viewers on a journey high above the American landscape to reveal the country as never seen before. Join host Yul Kwon (Winner of "Survivor: Cook Islands") to learn how this machine feeds nearly 300 million Americans every day. Discover engineering marvels created by putting nature to work, and consider the toll our insatiable appetites take on our health and environment. Embark with Kwon on a trip that begins with a pizza delivery route in New York City, then goes across the country to California's Central Valley, where nearly 50 percent of America's fruits, nuts and vegetables are grown, and into the heartland for an aerial look at our farmlands. Meet the men and women who keep us fed - everyone from industrial to urban farmers, crop-dusting pilots to long-distance bee truckers, modern-day cowboys to the pizza deliveryman.

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