Let’s support, not nitpick companies trying to make a difference
NEW companies like Biolite are devloping new approaches to international development through direct business-to-community links. Critical harping can only damage that…
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Our post-capitalist future
Economic systems, like everything else, evolve. So, what lies beyond capitalism? For speculative science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson, traces of our post-capitalist future are already visible in the present…
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The citizen photojournalist: here’s the manual
WHO BETTER than a multimedia photojournalist and blogger whose work has also been picked up by old media's newspapers and TV to write a book on citizen journalism? After all, Carlos Miller has pioneered this new field of independent journalism and popularised it in his blog, Photography Is Not A Crime.
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In 2025, what will your kids be doing for a living?
This is a story inspired by the article: The iEverything and the Redistribution Imperative: http://robertreich.org/post/113801138315 The link to the article was circulated on social media by farmer and fair food advocate, Michael Croft. THIS IS another article in a growing list of articles questioning our automated and robotised future. The author raises the idea of […]
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The coming end of middle class work
HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY SHRUNK the working class (and, therefore, the membership and influence of trade unions), industrial technology and software are now shrinking the working prospects of the middle class. This is a software-driven revolution and it has been more deeply investigated in the book, Rage Against the Machine. There is little point in raging against […]
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