Life is getting better faster. Food is more widely available; we live longer; more people have money and violence, disease and child mortality are down all around the world. Yet there will be turmoil.
“The bottom-up world is to be the great theme of this century,” predicts Matt Ridley in his controversial new book Rational Optimist.
“Doctors [...]
The sum of us can be more powerful (and fun) than one of us… sometimes. The confounding thing is exactly how we make it happen.
Even when we have a strong desire to collaborate, we are likely bump up against into each other because, as in love, good intentions don’t always lead to mutually satisfying behavior. Yet, [...]
A sign of the growing popularity of all kinds of collaboration is the growing number of books on some aspect of the topic. What are your favorites? Here are some I’ve come across:
Alone Together: Sociable Robots, Digitized Friends, and the Reinvention of Intimacy and Solitude by Sherry Turkle.
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded [...]
When women and men were beat up in a Mangalore pub for “violating traditional Indian values” some decried it as “Talibanisation of India.” Thousands have seen the video. Yet even the National Commission for Women there, also condemned “the loosening of moral standards amongst young women.”
To galvanize action against the right wing Hindu group that backs such incidents, journalist Nisha Susan involved bloggers to ask [...]
I started this blog soon after The Age of Engagement morphed into a flood of
ideas on how “we” can accomplish more together. Here are the books I’ve mentioned and authors I have interviewed. Crowdsourcing (Jeff Howe), Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky), groundswell (Charlene
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Seth Godin’s promise to put 1,000 faces on the cover of his next book, Tribe, reminded me of two other crowd pleasers:
• the top-of-heads photo on
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Just weeks before her wedding, Ivanna got out of a cab in New York, leaving her T-Mobile Sidekick cell phone behind. Her friend sent emails to the Sidekick account offering a reward for the phone’s return. No answer. So Ivanna bought a new phone. When she activated Sidekick she was startled to find [...]
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