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...
View ArticleDigital 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...
View ArticleChris 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...
View ArticleArtificial 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...
View ArticleVolunteers 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....
View ArticleComputers 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...
View ArticleComputers 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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