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Category Archives: geopolitical theory
china & the economy
http://www.artefactgroup.com/blog/2010/01/consumerism-in-the-wild-wild-east-what-to-know-about-designing-for-china/ This article – as enlightening and fascinating as it is – still seems to harbor a prejudice of the Aristotelian (i.e. black vs. white, with no in-betweens) worldview: it labors to convince us that China’s rapid economic growth and … Continue reading
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Action vs Reflection
I’m so glad for the intellectual revolutions of the 60s and 70s. The earlier generation dealt with tearing the structure down the ground and then rejecting what remained of it inside themselves. It is clear that they were generally right … Continue reading
Posted in cultural evolution, geopolitical theory, screed
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invasive species
Henry King (of Doblin) makes a widely-recognized observation that the recession will lead to innovation. He takes it one small step farther: as the economy picks up again, we’ll see emerging new business models and unexpected fast-growing players in many … Continue reading
Posted in economics, geopolitical theory, school
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droughts and margins
Droughts kill societies. Along with using up resources, the straight out vagaries of nature are not amenable to our long-term goals. It’s not always our own human nature that drives the death of society – although in this light these … Continue reading
Posted in economics, geopolitical theory, government, planning
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open source bank
the title on an article from wired.com today gave me the impression that someone was going to create a p2p bank – a financial trading/loan mechanism hosted and owned by thousands of loosely affiliated individuals, with no central control or … Continue reading
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consumerism
Watched “The Reader” yesterday and realized that our irresponsible consumerism is enabled/created by the same sort of dysfunctional social system that allowed the Nazis and the SS to kill millions of innocent people.
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Bottom, Middle, Top of the pyramid
A project I worked on last semester parallels work that is being done at google.org – my project for Larry Keeley’s class (dqe1.com/files/juncture-proposal.pdf) focused on creating an ‘opportunity engine’ that connects various NGOs like Kiva, Grammeen Bank, and Heifer Intl. … Continue reading
Posted in business, economics, geopolitical theory, research, school
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Government Structure
Reading “Sciences of the Artificial” by Herbert Simon a few weeks ago, I was struck by his distinction between normative and descriptive computer models. Basically, normative models explain how things should be, as when we say, “Governments provide the greatest … Continue reading
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