Jamais Cascio on his chunks of the MetaVerse Road Map Report. He's Framing is as 4 "scenarios", as in Scenario Planning, but not in the sense of saying that any one of those 4 things could happen, but rather that all of them will happen - he's really defining spaces within a single scenario. (more)

Kevin Dietz and Joel Orr are working on Lots Of Jots, a Wiki-like NoteBook app.

Wiki-like NoteBook app. (more)

Douglas Rushkoff gave a talk on Open Source Democracy as the new Renaissance - similar to 2008-07-15-RushkoffPersonalDemocracyNextRenaissance. (more)

Amazon Crowd Sourcing Labor Market tool. (more)

Cell Phone (Mobile) service company. Like TelCo (many of the biggest players are both).

an Innovation that doesn't change the structure of a Market - incumbents, Status Quo (more)

Marc Andreessen on why Software Is Eating The World (Eat People). My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift (Technological Revolution) in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures (Disruptive Innovation). Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not... Software is also eating much of the value chain of industries that are widely viewed as primarily existing in the physical world. (I'm not sure I'm convinced by his examples.) Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation (see 2007-01-18-KlingFogelFocusEducHealthLeisure). In some industries, particularly those with a heavy Real World component such as oil and gas, the software revolution is primarily an opportunity for incumbents (Sustaining Innovation). But in many industries, new software ideas will result in the rise of new Silicon Valley-style start-ups that invade existing industries with impunity. Over the next 10 years, the battles between incumbents and software-powered insurgents will be epic. (more)

early member of the Royal Society Of London (more)

Steven Johnson on choosing Raising Kids in Urban area. David Brooks' obsession with the surfaces of Hipster parenting ends up blinding him to the real trend here, which is central to almost all the examples he cites: young parents choosing to raise their children in the city, not the suburbs. That is a decision with real consequences, not an empty gesture. It has material effects on children and parents - and the cities they live in. It's a decision with political and environmental implications, and also one with some surprisingly old-time Americana values. (Brooklyn parents can be cloyingly sentimental about the small town friendliness of their Neighborhood-s.) It has almost nothing to do with non-conformism, and everything to do with the kind of Community - diverse, Side Walk-based, public, culturally-rich - we want to raise our children in.

Adina Levin on Stephen Shapin's Leviathan and the Airpump about the debates during the birth of the Scientific Method. Robert Boyle vs Thomas Hobbes. The insight I found most interesting is the way the book shows how arguments in defense of alternative scientific methods were not only about how to prove knowledge, but about how to organize society (Society Design). Both sides were anxious about maintaining civil order in the aftermath of the English Civil War, and promoted their respective methods as processes for reaching agreement peaceably. Hobbes' focused on creating geometric-style proofs that are so airtight that dispute is impossible. Boyle focused on removing philosophic discourse from the contentious topics of politics and religion, and allowing free argument on agreed facts.

Back in Dec'2010 Tony Hsieh launched a plan to move the Zappos' HQ from the Suburb-s to the non-strip "DownTown" Las Vegas (Fremont East), taking over the to-be-vacated City Hall. (more)

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Companies (Labor Market Start Up-s) focused on facilitating physical errands (Real World) and odd jobs between strangers are struggling or pivoting, whereas those that expedite virtual tasks — like design work or copywriting — are thriving... There’s a variety of possible reasons why virtual gig sites are thriving and physical gig sites are pivoting, ranging from the trust barrier for in-person interactions, to the difficulties of scaling a business tied to local, physical encounters.

Bruce Sterling scenario of the Network Economy - UbiComp without wealth (Quality Of Life, Slum)

Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury,[1] was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of Social Contract theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes (more)

Phillip J Eby is Framing some of his Self Improvement techniques like Extreme Programming. Test Driven Development, YAGNI, etc. (more)

Mixergy guy - interviews Entrepreneur-s.

challenge for Self Control - you get the pain, but the gain doesn't come until later

Steve Blank on (more)