A syllabus for the 21st century – (01)

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. – Alvin Toffler I have been thinking about how education should look like in our 21st century. Here is a list of the types of learning I think are important. Notice that […]

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Assist Social Capital – A charitable organization

A friend of mine recently pointed out that a Scottish website had quoted in full one of my old blog postings. My curiosity led me to take a look and…I have to say that I am very proud to have been included in this website. The website is called “Assist Social Capital”, a non-profit, charitable […]

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Switching focus from bits to humans. How technology affects people.

Quoting Don Norman from a recent article on CNET “…We, as people, we should not care about the technology. We should care about the benefits it gives us…”[1] It’s moments like these that I am reminded why I am a fan of Norman.[2] Personally, I would like to see more cultural criticism of technology, and […]

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Survival of the selfless

The current issue of New Scientist Magazine has an interesting article that compares selfish behaviors with altruistic behaviors and produces a theory of how group-oriented collaboration has a track record of survival. “ALTHOUGH a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over the other […]

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Gregory Bateson’s Mind and Nature.

I’m reading Gregory Bateson’s book, Mind and Nature. Bateson was an anthropologist, sociologist, second order cyberneticist and philosopher. In this book Bateson wrote an accessible philosophy that acknowledges issues in science and in popular forms of thinking. I would recommend this book to anyone that likes this blog. Mind and Nature proposes transdisciplinary studies as […]

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Al Gore on Current.com

Quoting Al Gore from a blog post on the Identity unknown blog: “Current, the media company I co-founded six years ago with my partner Joel Hyatt, just last week launched a new web site that integrates television and the Web in an unprecedented way. It provides, as never before, a platform for citizens to make […]

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MicroPlace

An interesting tool that allows users to “invest” in poor individuals from across the world who have entrepreneurial dreams. Link: https://www.microplace.com/ Related in this blog: Complex problems: Poverty > 

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Inequality Rises in the U.S.

“Morning Edition, October 12, 2007 · The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans earned more than 20 percent of all income in 2005. That means the richest Americans have surpassed the highs of the booming 1990s, according to the latest data from the IRS. The numbers provide more proof that inequality is rising in this country. […]

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How Crime May Affect Health Indirectly

Somewhere among the big pile of tags I use on this blog there’s one called “social-ecology”. I created this tag in order to classify stories and thoughts about how our built-environment, (urban design and the dynamics within it) affect our society. My goal here is not only to raise awareness but also to trigger innovations […]

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National Priorities Project

An interesting site that contrasts the unmet needs of our nation with the astronomical (economic) costs of the current wars. It allows you to contrast the cost of the war with the costs of: Public Housing Public Education Pre-Schools Children’s Health College Scholarships Source:  http://nationalpriorities.org Related: Bush vetoes the child health plan > (LA Times) […]

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