These are the kids we interviewed:

“People are most susceptible to large political upheavals in society between the ages of 10 and 25. That’s when you get your education. Becker states you have to take the decisions you make between the ages of 10 and 25 very carefully. They determine the rest of your life.”

H. Becker, Former professor of sociology, author

(NOTE: VIDEO IN DUTCH)

When I visit MySpace or Hyves it always strikes me how much information of people’s private life is up for grabs. The young generations have no problem spilling their guts online and fights, love affairs, personal troubles and victories, it’s all there. To many people, this is madness. They want their privacy protected, like the people from privacy.org or ICAMS (against too many surveillance cameras). But can you completely protect your privacy in the 21st century?

I do not think you can.

Hasan Elahi, an American professor and artist, agrees. By mistake, he got listed in the FBI files as a potential terrorist. The threat of a one-way ticket to Gitmo forced him into a bold move: he made his life public, all the way.

The past few weeks my little sister has been shopping for a new car. We’ve been visiting various cardealers, a quite time-consuming activity. One car here, the other there, you have to wait everywhere to get a testdrive. Apart from the possibility to buy a car on the internet (eg. on eBay), the car buying business is very old-fashioned.

So I was very surprised to read that GM in the US is making a revolutionary move. They are supplying every GM dealership with Honda’s and Toyota’s so customers can make an on-the-spot comparison. They must have read this WIRED… Is this a revolutionary act of transparency in the very conservative car industry?

“What I foresee is that in the future, the stories will be discovered from below: By the citizens themselves. They will say: This is important for our city. This is a story I like. So we do it for ourselves. And gradually, people will come as tourists and watch, and hopefully after sometime they will take part. Storytelling sets themes, yes. But not invent a story. Discovered stories, that are developed by citizens themselves. Not from up there. No, from below.”

Rolf Jensen, CIO dreamcompany and author

For weeks my head has been spinning around a topic which I gave the worktitle ‘community overload’. It had to do with my unease at the fact that there are too many communities on the web (and especially social network site and forums).

I found out I am suffering from Continuous Partial Community and I am not alone :). And better yet, help is on the way in the form of 8hands, a nifty tool that handles all your social network troubles.

“The more insects you have the better it is, because all their material flows go back into cycles.We distinguish between two types of products. Normally people always talk about the consumer. But we are not consuming a TV set. We’re not consuming a washing machine. We only use these things as service products. So everything that is designed to degrade, like shoe soles, like brake pads, like food, like detergents, is designed to be beneficial for biological systems. And everything that is just designed as a service, like a computer, like a washing machine, is a technical nutrient. When we do this, we are as intelligent as ants.”

Michael Braungart, professor of Process Engineering and ecovisionair

“There is a kind of return to a sense of how can I take that game out of the screen and bring it back into my physical space? How can my body become part of that interaction?’And that’s where your scene’s beginning to get this hybrid forms and this genre of game’s is called pervasive gaming. That is looking at games that are played in the real world, but partially played mediated via some kind of technology. And so people are now becoming more and more interested in that line between the virtual and the physical.”

Katie Salen, game designer and expert