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Leveraging Ideas :: Counterculture 2.0
Normally I consider my parents a lost-cause when it comes to social media and web 2.0, but this weekend my father blew me away with some off-hand comments about what I had thought were the latest in iThe Long Now Foundation
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution.Stewart Brand - John Tierney - An Early Environmentalist, Embracing New ‘Heresies’ - New York Times
He expects that environmentalists will soon share his affection for nuclear power. They’ll lose their fear of population growth and start appreciating sprawling megacities. They’ll stop worrying aboutCounterculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Small projects, artists, and organizations are now able to quickly gain momentum and support around the world, due in large part to the prominence of online social-networking sites amongst youth, medifrontline: high stakes in cyberspace: Stewart Brand | PBS
My guess is that the information revolution is so pervasive that you don't have to worry about being on its cutting bleeding edge. You don't have to get version 1.0 of everything. In fact you're muchConspiracy of Heretics: Wired 2.11
The Global Business Network was founded in 1988 as a think tank to shape the future of the world. It's succeeding.GBN Global Business Network
As the world's foremost scenario consultancy, GBN works with hundreds of the world's leading corporate, nonprofit, and governmental organizations to explore emerging uncertainties, understand risks anRoger Clarke's Information Wants to be Free ...
Somebody once said "Information wants to be free". To some people it's a truism, to others a battle-call or a mantra. Many use it as a fire-starter in presentations and papers, because of itVideo of Fred Turner: From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Link to video of Fred Turner’s talk at Harvard’s Berkman center on From Cyberculture to Counterculture:Kevin Kelly: How does technology evolve? Like we did (video)
Talks Kevin Kelly: How does technology evolve? Like we didOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
contemporary science points in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a bee-hive of small simple components. Kelly applies this view to bureaucKevin Kelly (editor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kevin Kelly (b. 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog.Appropriate technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Appropriate technology is tech that is appropriate to the environmental, cultural and economic situation it is intended for. An appropriate tech, in this sense, typically requires fewer resources, asLibertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Libertarianism is a political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided tPoint Foundation (environment) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Point Foundation was a non-profit organization founded in 1972 by Stewart Brand. The foundation was established to give away $1 million in three years to assorted effective individuals. Point ranAbout the Weird Conference
The WEIRD Conference has hosts who are rabid crackpots and whose participants are Heliogabali bent on extracting the last drop of abnormality from what's left of their own twisted minds. Naturally, maA Techie Woodstock in the Nevada Desert Welcome to Burning Man, where technology, art, theater, and nature combine into something that looks a lot like the 1960s transplanted to the 21st century. - Oc
A Techie Woodstock in the Nevada Desert Welcome to Burning Man, where technology, art, theater, and nature combine into something that looks a lot like the 1960s transplanted to the 21st centuryLearning from Informal Urban Economies
Brand's 1994 book, How Buildings Learn. That volume addressed how structures changed and evolved over time. Brand's newest research on urban squatter communities can be seen as addressing, at least inFuture Boy: Talent hunting in the counterculture - Aug. 31, 2006
Google's known for its exacting hiring requirements, which include ivy-league degrees and a stratospheric GPA. But Page and Brin also have a preference for hiring Burning Man attendees - a practice thFrom Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism - - New York Times
Can this encyclopedia of countercultural romance have anything to do with today’s technological world, a world of broadband connections, TCP/IP protocol and the Internet?How we got here: Legacy of the whole earth catalog
Well, here in this panel interview are the founders of all three: Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, and Howard Rheingold, talking about how it started, why they did what they did, and what they think of wheInstitute for the Future - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a Palo Alto, California–based think tank established in 1968, as a spin-off from the RAND Corporation, to help organizations plan for the long-term future.Howard Rheingold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howard Rheingold (born July 7, 1947) is a critic and writer; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephonyWELL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (or The WELL) is one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation. It currently has about 4,000 members. It is best known for its Internet forums, but alsoEnterprise Web 2.0 » Who Owns the Web?
In 1985, a new kind of visionary joined the circle when leftover Whole Earth Catalogue hippies Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant (who is now running Google.org) founded The Well, the internet’s firstDIY ethic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The DIY ethic (do it yourself ethic) refers to the ethic of being self-reliant and doing things yourself as opposed to paying others to do it. The term can indicate "doing" anything from homWhole Earth Symposium
They helped give rise to such influential venues as the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link and Wired magazine. And in the process, they transformed the ideals of the generation of 1968 into a deeply optimistMerry Pranksters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Merry Pranksters are a group of people who originally formed around American novelist Ken Kesey and sometimes lived communally at his homes in California and Oregon. Notable members include Kesey'Ken Kesey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a counter-cultural figure who, some consider, was a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too o
