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Four principles for the open world – Don Tapscott

20/01/2015 By Sabrina Leave a Comment

The technology revolution is opening the world.

Yesterday’s Internet was a platform for the presentation of content while the Internet of today is a platform for computation.

The Internet is a big global computer that we all share.

Humanity is building a machine, and this enables us to collaborate in new ways. Collaboration can occur on an astronomical basis. Now a new generation is opening up the world as well, a new generation that is the first generation to come of age in the digital age, to be bathed in bits. I call them the Net Generation.

The global economic crisis is opening up the world as wellContinue Reading

How to live before you die – Steve Jobs

23/09/2014 By Sabrina 1 Comment

Listen to the talk at Stanford University: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcZDWo6hiuI or www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die

Today I want to tell you three stories about my life.

The first is about connecting the dots. My biological mother, an unwed graduate student, put me up for adoption and she wanted me to grow up with parents who were graduates. It was all set for me to be adopted by a lawyer and his wife, but they decided they wanted a girl at the last minute and I ended up being adopted by another couple: my mother never graduated college and my father never graduated high school. Continue Reading

Questioning the Universe – Stephen Hawking

20/06/2014 By Publisher Leave a Comment

Listen to the TED talk: www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe. The questions I would like to talk about are: one, where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is the future of the human race?Continue Reading

The Empathic Civilisation

03/06/2014 By Publisher Leave a Comment

This is a summary of an animated video adapted from a chat with Jeremy Rifkin called “The Empathic civilisation”. Jeremy Rifkin is bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet.
We encourage you to read it here or to watch the video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g and then to comment on it at the bottom of the article.

The secret powers of time, by Prof. Philip Zimbardo

17/02/2014 By Publisher Leave a Comment

This is a summary of an animated video adapted from a chat with Prof. Philip Zimbardo called “The Secret Powers of Time”. Prof. Philip Zimbardo is a renowned psychologist.

We encourage you to read it here or to watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg and then to comment on it at the bottom of the article.

There are 6 main time zones people live in, two focussed on the past, two on the present and two on the future. People focussed on the past remember the good times. These are people who keep family records and photos etc. Others focus only on regret and failure. Those two are called past positive and past negative.Continue Reading