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IFTF Social Impact Technology Futures

The Institute for the Future is planning a conference on technologies and social change. My feeling is that since around 2000 people have become increasingly aware of how technologies can be used to...

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Digital Activism

There’s a whole new world of digital activism now, including a new report The DigiActive Guide to Twitter for Activism. There have been digital activists as long as the Internet has been around, but...

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Chris Pirillo’s “Pillars of Community”

At LeWeb in Paris (December 2009) Chris Pirillo articulated some underlying principles for creating true (virtual) community. Matt Buckland[1] recorded Chris’ points in text form. I’m going to make...

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Artificial Countries

I was browsing the history of Esperanto and discovered Rose Island, a micronation in the Adriatic Sea that declared itself the Republic of Rose Island in 1968. (And whose official language was...

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Volunteers are donors and investors

{File under Pitfalls of Startup Organizations…} Every unpaid volunteer; every pro-bono professional; everyone working on some project without pay; all of them are investing in their particular futures....

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Computers And Teaching 1973

I just reviewed the seven archived newsletters of my Computers And Teaching [CAT] project, written in 1972 and 1973. During that time I led other graduate students, faculty and staff at Northwestern...

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Computers And Teaching 1972 and 1973 newsletters

I was recently reviewing the seven newsletters of the Computers And Teaching [CAT] project. I previously commented on an article that predicted the cottage industry of home working that we see around...

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