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Walkabout... The WorkSpace KreW researched themes ranging from the workshop topics to broader vantage points on creativity and the creative economy. We've collected some of those quotes, articles and ideas here... Global Trade Architecture
Under Duress | Shifting the Center of Gravity Towards
Asia | A World Without Intellectual Property
'"Freeman Dyson has expressed some thoughts on craziness. In a Scientific American article called "Innovation in Physics," he began by quoting Niels Bohr. Bohr had been in attendance at a lecture in which Wolfgang Pauli proposed a new theory of elementary particles. Pauli came under heavy criticism, which Bohr summed up for him: "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct? My own feeling is that is not crazy enough." To that Freeman added: "When a great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled, incomplete and confusing form. To the discoverer, himself, it will be only half understood; to everyone else, it will be a mystery. For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope!" ~ Kenneth Brower, 1979, The Starship and the Canoe Global Trade Architecture Under Duress 'A Global Trade Deal. It's not mission impossible'
The Independent Online (pdf) WTO meeting December '05 FT.com Dani Rodrik (Harvard) on Trade Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University) on Trade Rainforest Alliance : Certification: A Catalyst for Partnership (pdf) Shifting the Center of
Gravity Towards Asia A World Without Intellectual Property Wikipedia shared information for the world written by ordinary people Imagine a world in which every person has free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. http://www.worldchanging.com is full of wonderful, throught provoking articles regarding open source, IP, and many other things. If you do a search on IP you will find some good articles. The Synaptic Leap opens open source doors for scientific and medical researchers Let's say you're an eager young bioscientist, ready to use open source models for your biomedical research and development. How do you do it? Well, you could put some of your work up on Bioforge, or try to hook up with a group like BIOS... but where are the enabling systems to make open source, collaborative development straightforward for researchers who don't want to be computer techs in their off-hours? Generation Fabrication Tools for the design and creation of usable, compelling objects and works of art continue to get less expensive and easier to use. "DIY" -- "do it yourself" -- used to refer to people who had spent thousands of dollars assembling the right set of tools and equipment to be able to make things that were a cut above the run-of-the-mill garage hobbyist. Now a proliferation of digital technologies make it possible for anyone with even a modicum of interest and a bit of talent to produce works that, in some cases, can rival the output of major companies and stars. Generation C Talks about how Sony Canon are telling consumers that they can be professional film makers and photographers. Blurring the lines. The need to connect to the internet is the new oxygen The internet has taken over as THE most important medium for young people E-connected mass class of consumers Information wants to be free an article paving the way from 1995! Locking down options against P2P Post-Christmas sales are a must for bargain hunters, but this year brings a new incentive to stock up on electronics: 2005 might be the last good year to get gizmos that aren't locked down. Open access publication makes scientific work available at no cost, in order to further the spread of knowledge and ideas among communities -- such as scientists in the developing world -- often locked out of cutting-edge science due to limited resources. The Future of Talen: Who's Choosing Whom? Think you could get hired by Google?: Free Cleaning, lunches and ski trips. Another article about Google's stategy and practices for attracting and retaining the cream of the crop of creative talent. City Planet Redeux : Cities of the Future We are just beginning to understand how place facilitates the creative design processes. This article is an important framework piece. What Can Creativity Do For You? Virtual/Real? Who is leading who? Writer Julian Dibbell has long studied the sociology of online interactive behavior, and he (along with many other researchers) is fascinated by the economic aspects of the "massively multiplayer" games. Given that the virtual currencies (such as gold pieces used in World of Warcraft) have real, if unofficial, dollar values, Dibbell began to wonder: would the transactions using these virtual currencies be subject to American tax law? While this might at first look relevant to the creative economy, I suspect that this new sector will begin to have a major influence in organizational design and networks. Living In The Creative Ecosystem, Newtopia Magazine Creative Class dot Org, home of the Richard Florida Creativity Group Nurturing the Creative Economy II, hosted by the British Council The Creative Economy, Business Week Online, August 2000 Google: Ten Golden Rules Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google. By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian, Newsweek 02 Dec 2005. The Changing Nature of What is Fun : While this article is a bit extreme - and maybe a fad - more likely it is a hint of what is to come. This iis not a team sport ... and there is no competition.. National Public Radio reported this week that young adults have shifted about a third of their entertainment time from consuming to creating. Creating is just more fun. Trend Watching Applying your findings and spottings and turning them into new goods, services and experiences for, or even better, with your customers is more about creativity and guts than about endless studies and number crunching. Sure, numbers are important, but more as evidence than as a starting point. A great article on the changing nature of spoting trends. No more passive consuming : Increasingly, consumers are participants instead of passive audience members, and this mega-trend manifests itself in a variety of ways. In fact, the more we hear about GENERATION C making money from its creations, and the more we focus on the financial rewards consumers are reaping from participating in CUSTOMER MADE projects, the more the myriad of other entrepreneurial undertakings by ordinary consumers makes sense. 10 Tech Trends for 2006 : Once again, it's time for the Mercury News annual look into a crystal ball for technology trends in 2006. Never mind that the smartest people in tech wouldn't dare make serious predictions about what innovations will catch fire next year. We make a humble try anyway. Free Cleaning, lunches and ski trips. Another article about Google's stategy and practices for attracting and retaining the cream of the crop of creative talent.. Flattening Hierarchies in Business What can chaos theory teach us about management and governance? A lot, as it turns out. Decentralization and self-organization in business, tech, and government are trends we often laud, and have even claimed that they will help societies avoid catastrophes by "collapsing upwards". But how does it work in practice, and how does it compare to traditional hierarchy in getting things done? A Competitive Nation, by Design, by Niti Bhan, 27 Dec 2005 Washington is mulling ways to boost scientific research. What a pity the same emphasis isn't being put on design. The Second Superpower This plays into all the workshops and may be the biggest disrupter. There is an emerging second superpower, but it is not a nation. Instead, it is a new form of international player, constituted by the “will of the people” in a global social movement. The beautiful but deeply agitated face of this second superpower is the worldwide peace campaign, but the body of the movement is made up of millions of people concerned with a broad agenda that includes social development, environmentalism, health, and human rights. This movement has a surprisingly agile and muscular body of citizen activists who identify their interests with world society as a whole—and who recognize that at a fundamental level we are all one. These are people who are attempting to take into account the needs and dreams of all 6.3 billion people in the world—and not just the members of one or another nation. Consider the members of Amnesty International who write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience, and the millions of Americans who are participating in email actions against the war in Iraq. Or the physicians who contribute their time to Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres. |
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