Professor Mark Dodgson from the University of Queensland’s School of Business talks about digital money, a technology that has changed the way we are able to conduct business transactions.
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Why digital money is one of the most important innovations ever - Ockham’s Razor - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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The Art of Hyperobjects
A talk by Tim Morton at Rice University, March 16, 2013.
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Zoos Cruise w/ Avery Edison | Pre-Recorded | Funny interviews, improv and sketch comedy
A former (?) economic assassin details her exploits working for Her Majesty’s Totally Super Secret Service, trying to undermine other national economies. On the lighter side, the cruise director for the annual Zookeepers Convention talks to us about this year’s festivities. Featuring Avery Edison on Twitter @aedison, and Landon Kirksey on Twitter @itslandon.
http://www.pre-recorded.com/2013/03/zoos-cruise-w-avery-edison/
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Improve Your Business Writing - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review
An interview with Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black’s Law Dictionary and author of the HBR Guide to Better Business Writing.
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2013/02/improve-your-business-writing.html
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Why We’re All in Sales - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more.
http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2013/02/why-were-all-in-sales.html
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Nafeez Ahmed - The Crisis of Civilization | Legalise Freedom
Author and international security analyst Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed on The Crisis of Civilization. Dr Ahmed is author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It, and co-producer of The Crisis of Civilization.
http://legalise-freedom.com/radio/nafeez-ahmed-the-crisis-of-civilization/
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Whole Foods’ John Mackey on Capitalism’s Moral Code - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review
An interview with John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and coauthor of Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business. http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2013/01/whole-foods-john-mackey-on-cap.html
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John Hancock on Our Capitalist Revolution
John Hancock, Senior Counsellor at the World Trade Organization, delivers a lecture entitled "Our Capitalist Revolution". Together with rapid growth, dazzling technologies and widening circles of development, global capitalism is delivering a turbulent, unequal, out-of-control world, which - Hancock argues - is just what we demanded. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Tim O’Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind - The Long Now
As a student of the classics at Harvard in the 1970s, O’Reilly was impressed by a book titled The Discovery of the Mind: In Greek Philosophy and Literature, by Bruno Snell. In the four centuries between Homer and classical Athens, wrote Snell, the Greeks invented the modern human mind, with its sense of free will and agency. (In Homer, for example, no one makes a decision.) O’Reilly sees a parallel with the emerging of a global mind in this century.
Global consciousness was a recurrent idea in the 1970s—-from Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere and Omega point (“the Singularity of its day”) to “New Age mumbo-jumbo” such as the Harmonic Convergence. O’Reilly noted that the term “singularity” for technology acceleration was first used in 1958 by John von Neumann. In 1960 J.C.R. Licklider wrote an influential paper titled “Human-computer Symbiosis.” O’Reilly predicted that “exploring the possibility space of human-computer symbiosis is one of the fascinating frontiers of the next decades and possibly century.”
Echoing Dale Dougherty, he says the Web has become the leading platform for harnessing collective intelligence. Wikipedia is a virtual city. Connected smart phones have become our “outboard brain.” Through device automation, Apple has imbued retail clerks with superpowers in its stores. Watson, the AI that beat human champions at “Jeopardy,” is now being deployed to advise doctors in real time, having read ALL the scientific papers. YouTube has mastered the attention economy. Humanity has a shared memory in the cloud. Data scientists rule.
The global mind is not an artificial intelligence. It’s us, connected and augmented.
What keeps driving it is the generosity and joy we take in creating and sharing. The global mind is built on the gift culture of every medium of connectedness since the invention of language. You gain status by what you give away, by the value you create, not the value you take.
— by Stewart Brand
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Dark Ecology: Art and Thinking after the End of the World
A talk by Tim Morton in Lisbon, October 26, 2012.
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