My education varies from marketing to photography to programming to philosophy, documentary production, scenario writing etc. whatever was needed at the time to complement my skillset for the co-creation and communication of visions within multi-discplinary groups, so called future studies.
I’m talking about the upcoming great spectrum land-rush. This is something I learned very recently during my research into the Future of Media. The “digital dividend” is the radio spectrum left up for grabs when the first wave of digital television channels are allocated and analogue switch-off commences. . Like we learned in our Africa Online study, ether might be usefull to extend the reack and bandwith of WiMax etc. Unfortunately the frequencies it can use are limited since it will interfere with radio, tv or communication devices. We always tend to look ahead, what is TV going to look like, but it sometimes also interesting to look behind. What is the impact of a plainfield of Ether, ready to be used…. for what?
by Susan Strange
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Isbn-13: 9780472066933
The world’s financial system is crazier and even more out of control than it was ten years ago. Mad Money analyzes the erratic nature of change and innovation in financial business in recent years and discusses the weak points–political as well as economic and technical–of a system driven more by volatile markets than by governments. The central issue is global finance; “mad money” is how Susan Strange characterizes the alternately rampant and depressed financial markets of recent years. She sets…
For China the big question in the post-olympic decade will be if they can hold the gigantic country together while probably having to learn to deal with hyper-growth, at least one financial crisis, and continuous democratization - Chinese style. Therfor The Communist Party of China is seeking for a national identity and is turning to its authentic history. During the spectacular olympic opening it were not revolutionary heroes like Mao or Deng Xiaoping who were celebrated. No, Chinese officials prefer to emphasize its ancient philosopher in becoming the figurehead for China’s new national identity: Confucius.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
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Isbn-13: 9780226458083
There’s a “Frank & Ernest” comic strip showing a chick breaking out of its shell, looking around, and saying, “Oh, wow! Paradigm shift!” Blame the late Thomas Kuhn. Few indeed are the philosophers or historians influential enough to make it into the funny papers, but Kuhn is one. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is indeed a paradigmatic work in the history of science. Kuhn’s use of terms such as “paradigm shift” and “normal science,” his ideas of how scientists move from disdain through doubt…
by Leopold Boeckl
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Isbn-13: 9780615179285
Our civilization is the product of the human animal astoundingly domesticating ourselves. How did this process of domestication occur and what were the historical drivers which propelled humanity to achieve the relative uniformity we see today? God’s Evolution answers these questions through the construction of a model documenting our domestication cycles. Human domestication was and is directly tied to the development of technologies which drove the three distinct economic eras humanity has passed…
In our study on Brazil we forecasted that they probably will become an oil-exporting country in the near future. Their exclusive deep-sea drilling methodologies combined with a high oil-price (motivating other countries to buy-in Brazils expertise) sounds promising. Since the end of last year Brazil also announsed the discovery of some of the world largest oil and gas fiels before the Sao Paolo coast. We have discussed several scenario’ on whether Brazil will join Opec, non-opec or maybe try to set-up a latin-american oil council (Equador, Venezuela, brazil)?
When Coca-cola ‘invents’ a new flavor or new design for its bottle it creates a competitive advantage. Copyrighting and patenting helps them to protect their ‘invention’ and thus their investment. Except for the fact that our culture is being limited in copying one another, which is one of the primal functions of a culture, no problems so far. But what if this company is not called Coca-Cola but Bayern and making HIV-treatments instead of softdrinks, do we still find it ok that their competitive advantage is being protected? Isn’t it in societies best interest to open up those medicine and intelligence… but than a private company would never invest in R&D. A difficult catch-22. But how about sustainability? Every company is trying to gain an advantage by being more green than the other… but shouldn’t all those new technologies be open… saving the planet instead of the market?
Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
by Angus Maddison
Isbn-13: 9780199227204
This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, Part 1begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia,the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th century to the present. Part 3 looks to the future and considers what the shape of the world economy might…
In the Netherlands the new ‘right-wing’ party launched its program today. The political movement (as they call it) has the name Proud-on-Holland. In the same news-bulletin I saw the Dutch flag being burned by (just) 50 furious students in Indonesia protesting against the Wilders-videoclip. I just wondered… do you feel anything when people burn your flag. Are you hurt? Shocked? Offended? Could care less? How much is this an attack to our identity and culture…
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler
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Isbn-13: 9780300122237
Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler...
