Month: September 2011

Why not? The current system is driving large parts of humanity into debt slavery or “Nexum”. The power of unionization is real. A Union can negotiate collective terms. A Union can pool resources and have proactive, assertive, or aggressive strategies to protect victims of predatory credit agencies. Such an entity can stay within the confines…

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I visited Minneapolis early last february 2010. I witnessed a wonder. Seriously. The inner city of Minneapolis is all these huge buildings connected by something we don’t know in Europe – skyways. I was stunned and impressed. What was more impressive was the contrast between the outside temperature (including a meter of snow) and inside…

Born in the mid 1960s, I experienced potentially the biggest affluence in human history. I might actually have lived in the peak of human achievement. In my early youth this affluence allowed humanity to erect towers a 100 meter high and launch them to the moon, land there and return. But in my adolescence the…

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Most people view creativity as an asset — until they come across a creative idea. That’s because creativity not only reveals new perspectives; it promotes a sense of uncertainty. The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research indicates they don’t even know…

The 20 hottest years on record have all taken place in the past quarter century. The resulting floods, wildfires, and heat waves have all had deadly consequences, and if we don’t reduce carbon emissions immediately, humanity faces bleak prospects. We can no longer ignore this issue. Beginning today, we must all do more when it…

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A huge share of the United States economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent living there, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. This societal paradigm infects all other nations and is…

Humans live their existences locked in their own Byzantine theatre, denying most of what happens around them and screwing the rest of reality over as disinterested as the cosmos is disinterested in us. All this which encapsulates and permeates those small humans means nothing. All of the world we know is an epiphenomena of planetary…

Thought experiment. What if a bank or institution in the EU or US decides to issue a coin. The organization issues the coin freely. Everyone can buy it, and it is backed by a basket of gold, silver, a set amount of potabkle water, specific utilities, a number of highly standardized foodstuffs, oil, and (while…

Imagine this blasphemous idea. Facebook or Google closes a deal with Second Life. Either allows a page or service that allows a login. The login creates a generic, mesh-based avatar in Second Life chosen from a list of default avatars. These avatars materialize anywhere in PG (?) rated parts of Second Life. Now here comes…

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The current Democratic system has become unacceptable. Here is an idea. A nice variant would be this (it’s a bit contrivied but it might work) 1. You can vote any time. By voting you select another person – this can be anyone and express that vote for that person. This vote is secret. Voting does…

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