Saturday, October 26, 2013

Bruce Sterling NEXT13 - Fantasy prototypes and real disruption

 
“In the startup world, you work hard and you move fast to make other people rich. Other people. You’re a small elite of very smart young people who are working hard for an even smaller elite of mostly baby boomer financiers. So they can buy national governments, shut the governments down, destroy the middle class and the nation state… That will be the judgement of history for your startup culture… It was a tacit allegiance between the hacker space favelas of the startups and offshored capital and tax avoidance money laundries. We’re all auto colonialised by the austerity”

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Bill Moyers Essay: Shutdown Showdown



At least let’s name this for what it is, sabotage of the democratic process. Secession by another means.

"Dance of the Honey Bee"


Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet

In a rare television interview, environmental legend and writer Wendell Berry leaves his Kentucky farm for an inspiring conversation. Also this week the short documentary Dance of the Honey Bees and Bill Moyers shares his frustrations on the government shutdown.