Hi everybody, I’m going to be doing a dry run of the Through the Looking Glass talk on societal fragility, peak oil and responses to these risks in London on Thursday at 6PM at the School of Everything offices in 18A Victoria Park Square London E29PF, 2 minutes from the Bethnal Green tube. The talk [...]
Read more →Here’s the trailer for my talks in Ireland. Here’s a first draft of my slides for the Through the Looking Glass talks I’ll be doing in Ireland from September 26th to September 28th of 2010. Please let me know what you think of them! Thanks to ASPO Ireland, FEASTA (Foundation for the Economics of Stability), [...]
Read more →From a brief presentation that I did as a “range finder” for the Through the Looking Glass talks I’ll be doing in Ireland towards the end of September 2010.
Read more →The Future We Deserve is going great! As you can see, we’ve raised the $2000 on Kickstarter, and now we’re pushing to get the 100 pieces written. The 40 or so pieces we have so far are wonderful. The sense of a faceted future, each person with their own broad perspective on it, the profusion [...]
Read more →From the archives, an excerpt from an old blog post on miniconsulting on decision-making as a transformation in our economy. The basic thrust of this piece was quite simple. What is the economic benefit of having the best person in the world make each decision? That seems like the real economic impact of the internet [...]
Read more →I’ll be doing a series of events in Ireland around the 26th of September, 2010. That’s the first one posted. Many thanks to the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas who are organizing and hosting. I won’t be focused extensively on the threat model; I believe that terrain is better covered by [...]
Read more →Max Weber’s definition was that something is “a ‘state’ if and insofar as its administrative staff successfully upholds a claim on the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence in the enforcement of its order.” I’ve found this definition not to aid my thinking about conflict areas and state failure, where monopolies of any kind [...]
Read more →The problem at the heart of all edgy political movements is that the government is doing the wrong thing, but ignoring the government has three worse consequences: the government will punch you in the head, other, evil groups (racists, say) will also ignore the government, and often simply being free is not enough, you want [...]
Read more →Raygun Soaps n., Star Trek, X Files, Warehouse 13, Stargate and all the rest. Fix the gadget, fight with the bad, have a beer with your mates in 10 Forward at the end of the show.
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