Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
leapfrogging the banking system
I just came back from Kenya, where I was consulting with the transport ministry. It was an interesting time, especially because we can see in countries like Kenya (with a GDP per capita of around 600 Dollars) the nuances of … Continue reading
the economics of free
for about a year now Chris Anderson has promised us his followup to the Longtail, Free. Here it is as the cover story of next months Wired. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the instituitional ecology of … Continue reading
Larry Lessig for Congress
Larry Lessig is thinking about running for office (Tom Lantos open seat) in April. This is relevant even outside of the United States, because it will bring the the battle for the institutional ecology of our networked world into parliament. … Continue reading
The Finance Minister and the Third Way 2.0
Yesterday, we had the German finance minister at the Erfurt School of Public Policy. He was asking how we can achieve societal cohesion in a transforming world? He criticized the missing loyalty of the disembedded, globally networked [class], but also … Continue reading
Pleading for Cannibalism (in personalized computing)
!– @page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> Since before the demise of the 12-inch G-4 Powerbook the Mac rumor sites have been discussing a potential Mac subnotebook as successor to the fabled … Continue reading
Ubiquitous Projecting
CES has always been a harbinger of things to come. Think of the introduction of the VCR at CES in 1970, the Laserdisc-Player 1974, Pong in 1975, the CD-Player and the Camcorder in 1981, Atari and Nintendo in 1985, the … Continue reading
Sleepless in Magnolia: Web 2.0 and Self-Help
We have an ambivalent relationship to self-help. We celebrate it as civic engagement, but we are afraid of lynch-mobs and the tyranny of the majority. The Seattle PI has an interesting story about how the people of Magnolia, a Seattle … Continue reading
The Capetown Open Education Declaration
One of the potentially transformative movements of networked societies is the open education movement, exemplified by MIT OpenCourseWare, the OLPC-Project, Curriki, Nestor and Fernando’s project, etc. The Capetown Declaration pursues this through three strategies: 1. Educators and learners: First, we … Continue reading
An Army of One and the Russian/Estonian Cyber War
we are still having a difficult time imagining what cyber-war really means. For the last nine month the example was the cyber conflict between Estonia and Russia. It now seems that it was not really an inter-state conflict but just … Continue reading
Living-Linux-Part-II
For the last three days, I have been using Mint Linux and suddenly it is all making sense. The look-and-feel are amazing, Flash, Java, etc. work and I am actually producing again. At this moment in time, it makes sense … Continue reading
