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Category Archives: The Global Picture

We just hit critical mass

I can’t put it into words, but something happened today, stepped over some kind of threshold, hit critical mass. Now it goes boom, this thing we’ve been building – a perspective, a view on life, a housing technology, a science of infrastructure… a plan to fix the world, which is not broken. If you never [...]

An anti-patent-abuse appropriate technology political bloc?

As I look at all these rocket scientists struggling to navigate the horrific waters of patent law and worst practices, I’m wondering… why has the Sacred Oath gone out of fashion? Like, really, what this comes down to is three principles which really ought to be sworn in blood by anybody doing this kind of [...]

How to fix the developing world for sixty million dollars

or, how to fix the planet for $60,000,000 First, let’s get clear about this: sixty million dollars is not a lot of money. Let’s think about a few things that cost in that price range. 1> One half of a Eurofighter aeroplane. 2> One half of “Batman and Robin.” So, here’s what I’m going to [...]

Rough video from my talk in Iceland

Much better video to follow – this is what I shot with my Xacti E1 from a tripod in the back of the room! Discussion here and HQ video and talk slides here.

Icelandic Digital Freedoms Conference is *ON*

We got Boing Boing’d via John Barlow’s very, very good 4th of July message. Eben Moglen’s on stage right now talking on “die gedanken sind frie” (thought is free) which is really rather good I’m on later today. Fun and games, fun and games. Here’s the main site FSFI and the conference data in English.

Global Swadeshi Dialogs – Steinn E. Sigurðarson of FSFI

http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A1766 20 minutes, audio only, discussion about the global swadeshi ideal, global capitalism, and long term futures. Great stuff.

New Global Swadeshi Dialog – Mark Charmer of AKVO and Chris Watkins of Appropedia

see http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topic/show?id=2097821%3ATopic%3A1761 This one is actually quite nice to watch which makes a nice change.

Global Systems Mapping

Shows roughly how the infrastructure works in a modern society. It’s the “general case” – to really get the detail down requires configuring the diagram for a specific place and time, but I think the rapid overview picture is still extremely useful. A work in progress. Five things on the chart. 1> Six Ways To [...]

Global Systems Mapping

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Global Swadeshi Dialogs – Smari McCarthy of the Icelandic Fab Labs Project

Had some problems with the video, now all resolved, thankfully. Enjoy, it’s a corker!