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Friday, June 6, 2003 |
Fournier: Most of the internet came out of collaboration, not the desire to get wildly rich.
Comment from the floor: You have the basis here for the faculty of a different kind of university...
Three major areas we're trying to bring together: 1) emerging software tools; 2) independent media; 3) economic leverage by changing the disfunctional social game rules... within the context of 4) a whole systems view of the world. Marriage of social operating system experiments now meeting a software culture that is operating under essentially the same impulse. Potential common denominator for all these "different" social movements is the software we use to define our different and overlapping agendas. Alan Kay's polling work in the 80s shows supermajorities in the US that want amazingly reasonable things.
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Fournier: The economists tell us photovoltaics aren't efficient enough. They're wildly efficient -- an order of magnutide more efficient than nature's energy transformation using carbon, the next octave up from silicon.
12:51:49 PM
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...yet doing so by looking at living in the material world. (Matter matters.)
The periodiic table of the elements, viewed as a spiral rather than table, shows the pattern of "where the action is," and discloses the pivotal role of carbon and silicon on the "pivotal axis."
Humanity's energy trajectory -- wood > peat > coal > oil > natural gas > hydrogen -- has evolved to ever less carbon. Once we get to carbon, there's no further to go.
The only way to the necessary transformation is to crash through waht money used to be, to something that actually tracks what's really of value.
12:36:56 PM
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...who is the perpetrator, or impressario, of this thang, is up now.
Many of our current opportunities are great things that have been seen as negatives.
Software people waking up to of security in environment of proto-fascism.
Nobody can get the 'killer portal' because the center has to be everywhere.
If you combine open source software, digital identity and the Earth Charter...
12:20:35 PM
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Paul's very cool software is PC only for the moment, Mac-ish in next couple of weeks. Constraint has been the weakness of Apple's Java machine; Paul says Grokker is motivating Steve Jobs to light a fire under Apple's Java team.
12:14:20 PM
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What do we all do? We gather information, and try to make it relevant, reassemble it in meaningful ways, that creates real change.
11:53:58 AM
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The organizers have invested lots of energy in creating local and virtual collaboration before, during and after the conference.
11:50:39 AM
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Blogging to you today from the PlanetWorks conference:
How are we using technological tools to mobilize, strengthen civil society and promote a more just, peaceful and sustainable world?
Caught very tail end of Jeff Gates on "Money as Water," now in the midst of Paul Hawken on context building search software for social activism.
11:49:32 AM
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