Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment). The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time in between, a moment of undetermined period of time in which something special happens. [...]
Read more →(Slide 66 at that slide show) Does anybody know who built all of these? I hear there were some hundreds of units on the playa – several large theme camps with a dozen or half a dozen units, plus many, many groups with hexayurts. A good year! Haiti and Pakistan next?
Read more →We will be doing a Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps workshop in Dublin on the afternoon of Monday the 27th. There are about five places free for the workshop, which will be covering the practical applications of SCIM as a planning tool for a wide variety of circumstances. The workshop will be of particular interest to [...]
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Read more →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 [...]
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