200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes via JordonCooper.com. While this is a cool data visulaization, it strikes me as remarkable how hard it is for sub-Saharan Africa to catch the rest of the world. Stephen Lewis can tell you why.
From Kelly’s excellent new book “What Technology Wants”: “The technium contains 170 quadrillion computer chips up into one mega-scale computing platform. The total number of transistors in this global network is now approximately the same number of neurons in you brain. And the number of links among files in this network (think of all the links among all the web pages of the world) is about equal to the number of synapse links in your brain. Thus, this growing planetary electronic membrane is already comparable to the complexity of a human brain. It has three billion artificial eyes (phone and …
A still foggy morning full of birdsong after yesterdays deluge of rain. # Life and death http://post.ly/1X6VJ # Coming into Snug Cove on the Bowen Queen http://post.ly/1X6VL # RT @ProstSoccer: Ultimatum Makes Robbie Keen on Vancouver http://bit.ly/ehMidN #whitecapsfc would love this as a Van based Spurs fan #coys # Can you sense the spring in the air? The weak signals that tell me bones that winter is over. Birdsong, silver light and mist. # Willie Tolliver: Systems will be changed only by people for whom they are designed to serve, not those who are embedded within them. # RT @cjmuzyka: …
From the time I was a 10 year old kid, I have loved flight. It has been a dream come true that my work involves so much time in airports and on airplanes. Notwithstanding the rethinking I am doing about the carbon cost of my vocation, I’m in love with being in the air. So I was delighted today to discover this blog: Flight Level 390. It is written by an experienced American pilot at a major airline (my guess is US Air) and the writing is as beautiful and clear as the skies he travels through. Lose yourself in …
Such a nice treat to come across this chronicle of friends: From Hero to Host: A story of Citizenship in Columbus OH. This an excerpt from Meg Wheatley and Debbie Frieze’s new book “Walk Out, Walk On“, due out soon. The excerpt tells the story of how a small group of people – many of them dear friends of mine – awakened a new form of citizen leadership in Columbus Ohio using the Art of Hosting as an operating system. You will hear stories of Phil Cass, Tuesday Ryan-Hart, Matt Habash and others in that city who have been changing …