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• Democracy in the wilderness? Hyde Park is beautiful in the way of uniformly green, well-spaced trees and sculpted paths. Until you come to the bits that are slightly over-fowled or the construction areas and then you realise that wilderness might be more beautiful.The most exciting things are happening outside of the people who want to "control" and "invent" global institutions. They are happening in the space where individual practices and behaviour, language and cultural norms are changing, and amongst people who think... from : mollywebb 11th February 2005
• timeline+25 Ars Electronica is held in Linz, Austria each year and is the oldest and largest art and technology festival in the world. This year is Ars' 25th anniversary, with the theme "TIMESHIFT: the World in 25 Years" and to mark the occasion they've set up a 'cultural experiment' where you can make predictions for the next 25 years and vote and comment on other peoples' ideas. from : paulmiller 6th September 2004
• Kerry storms ahead… Its not something which seems likely to precipitate an immediate revision of the American constitution, but it does spark some thoughts about some fairly recent events. Tuition fees were squeezed through parliament in on the back on the votes of MPs for Scottish constituencies – where fees were not going to be introduced as a result. One of the arguments used to defend this was that the new laws would effect the not insignificant number of Scottish students who opt each year to study in... from : duncanoleary 21st June 2004
• People Flow just keeps on flowing... Demos's 2003 offering, People Flow, has recently been covered on Italian website Caffe Europa.You can read the article here. from : rachelbriggs 17th June 2004
• Perception Gap Donald Rumsfeld might not know his known unknowns from his unknown unknowns but we've been trying to figure it out. We recently held a seminar - called Perception Gap - looking at how the perceptions ordinary people have of security threats affect government and corporate decision-making. This is the first in a series of seminars looking at the challenges facing companies of doing business in the new global security environment. Keep an eye on the Demos website for information about future... from : rachelbriggs 7th June 2004
• Climate of Fear - Reith lectures Interesting Reith lectures this year from Nobel prize winning novelist Wole Soyinka on the subject 'Climate of Fear'. Wole Soyinka was imprisoned in Nigeria for his opposition to dictatorship. He is talking about fear - and the political, and cultural consequences of fear in society. from : alistairdavidson 30th April 2004
• Yer What? Gavin Esler confronts a problem I've been mulling over for a while in today's Newsnight email... afraid I don't have any simple answers.""Shows promise: but must try harder" - the rather schoolmarm-ish conclusion of a report into the government's efforts at sustainable development. Eh? Sustainable development? Hardly trips off the tongue, does it? Not likely to compete for tabloid headlines with Posh 'n' Becks or Iraq, and in fact too long to fit in the Newsnight running order. Perhaps we... from : paulmiller 13th April 2004
• Offshore benefits? Just read an interesting Article in USA Today regaling the benefits of offshoring programming jobs from the US to India and China. The author, Kevin Maney, adopts the position that "This is absolutely not a zero-sum game," arguing that that such moves benefit both those who are able to pick up these jobs, and, ultimately, those who have lost them.The issue seems to be gaining in prominence - John Edwards' relatively protectionist approach became a central plank of his Presidential bid, whilst... from : duncanoleary 25th March 2004
• Enter the Matrix - The structure of the network society is dictated by forms of communiciation - all communication between state and citizen must take place through the media network, but other forms of citizen-to-citizen comunication (mobile phones etc) allow bottom up communication and mobilisation which is beyond the control of the centre- There is a crisis surrounding the nation state which is now typically more a hub for connecting networks than a site of power in itself - he pointed to the devolving of... from : jamespage 19th March 2004
• Jane Jacobs 7.0 Publisher's Note:Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities.In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation and government; and self-policing by learned professions. The decay of these pillars, Jacobs contends, is behind... from : petermacleod 15th March 2004

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