Are our brains changing? “Over the past 20 years, the net has changed from a thing one does to the way one lives.” – Doug Rushkoff, Digital Nation I made it a point to sit myself down for 90 full minutes and watch PBS Frontline’s “Digital Nation”. The video played in full-screen so that I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘future’
Biosphere politics
February 12th, 2010
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Jeremy Rifkin is blowing my mind today. Here’s a very tiny excerpt from his new book The Empathic Civilization: For the Internet generation, “quality of life” becomes as important as individual opportunity in fashioning a new dream for the 21st century. The transition to biosphere consciousness has already begun. All over the world, a younger [...]
Why I Like Sci-Fi
May 29th, 2009
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Found a neat little clip from Babylon 5 (you might remember it from back in the day – “our last, best hope for peace”) while ignoring my final for Modern Islamic Political Theory. I think it’s a great reminder of how diverse and interesting our planet is: interfaith, religion, future
Graduate School
May 29th, 2009
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A few months back, I read (with a somewhat horrified face) and commented on Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist post “Don’t try to dodge the recession with grad school.” It’s a silly post, really, full of lovely little bits of wisdom like “Law school is a factory for depressives” or “Going to grad school is like [...]
Those Strange Happy Days (selfish post)
April 5th, 2009
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And there are mornings when, sitting in my chair by the window reading, in this case, an intellectual history of the birth of modern sociology, I’ll set my book down, take a sip of warm tea and breathe deeply (usually nag champa fumes) – everything goes crystalline. I’ve often wondered if it’s some strange combination [...]
Twitter: Training Wheels, Airbag, or Insurance?
March 22nd, 2009
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I’m pursuing a number of job opportunities right now. If I’m hired, I might move away from Denver. I’m casting my net wide, so I’m not really sure where I might end up, but I know that before I get there, I’ll try to build up my Twitter network with local contacts – people who [...]
Because People Want To Know…
February 24th, 2009
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I happened upon an ABCNews story about Twitter that featured such luminaries as George Stephanopoulos and MC Hammer. I’ve got no idea how to post the damn thing in here, so I’ll just link out to it: John Berman catches up with MC Hammer about Twitter. John Berman (@abcdude) gave a pretty good rundown of [...]
What Comes Next?
January 26th, 2009
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I spend a lot of time wondering about “what comes next,” not so much to catch the wave, but to be inspired by what we might do in the future. Guy Kawasaki has an interview on the I Am Paddy blog about Twitter and business and connections. It’s an interesting read, but as I scrolled [...]
