Goldfrapp - Caravan Girl
A fairly lonely voice
22. November 2018
… trying to get us to reevaluate some ideas. Als kurze Synopsis… 😉
Nachtrag:
Hier ein längerer Auszug aus dem Vorwort (im Wesentlichen ein short summery) von Mazzucatos vorhergegangenem Werk das, dem oberen Interview nach, bereits auf politische Resonanz gestoßen ist. 🙂
Yet, globalization and information technology have enabled profits to migrate to low tax regions or even within tax havens. It is clear that innovation is needed in the tax system to ensure that high-risk public spending can continue to guarantee future private innovation. […]
The other direction for public sector innovation relates to ‘green’ technology. It is my own conviction that other than saving the planet, the green direction can, if properly supported, save the economy. By transforming consumption and production patterns and revamping existing structures and infrastructures, green technology can generate economic growth and long-term environmental sustainability. ‘Green growth’ can have an impact equivalent to what suburbanization and postwar reconstruction did to unleash the golden age in the West on the basis of the ‘American way of life’. It is impossible for the new millions of consumers being incorporated into the global economy to find wellbeing following the energy- and materials-intensive path exploited in the past. The limits to resources plus the threat of global warming could either become a powerful brake against the globalization process or the most powerful driver of growth, employment and innovation in a generation. […]
This brings us to the third lesson: […] As Keynes rightly argued, government must become the investor of last resort when the private sector freezes. But in the modern knowledge economy it is not enough to invest in infrastructure or to generate demand for the expansion of production. If innovation has always been – as Schumpeter said – the force driving growth in the market economy, it is even more critical in the information age to continue to direct public resources into catalysing innovation.Carlota Perez in - The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, 2013
A perspective for the future
17. November 2018
Futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, zur Zeit einer der intellektuellen Darlings der kalifornischen Tech Szene - in einem hochprovokanten NYT Portrait, sowie in eigenen Worten in einem “Talk at Google” (gehalten vor etwa einem Monat).
Auszug aus dem NYT Portrait:
[On Aldous Huxley] Generations have been horrified by his novel “Brave New World,” which depicts a regime of emotion control and painless consumption. Readers who encounter the book today, Mr. Harari said, often think it sounds great. “Everything is so nice, and in that way it is an intellectually disturbing book because you’re really hard-pressed to explain what’s wrong with it,” he said. “And you do get today a vision coming out of some people in Silicon Valley which goes in that direction.”
An Alphabet media relations manager later reached out to Mr. Harari’s team to tell him to tell me that the visit to X was not allowed to be part of this story. The request confused and then amused Mr. Harari. It is interesting, he said, that unlike politicians, tech companies do not need a free press, since they already control the means of message distribution.
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Und wo wir gerade bei unerwarteten Dystopien sind 😉 : click
Solid
01. Oktober 2018
Sir Tim Berners-Lee launches a new initiative, Solid, that aims to reset the connected world in citizens’ favour
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Tim Berners-Lee zum Projekt: click
John Bruce über die Initiative: click
Funktioniert nur leider nicht. Da es Initiative beim Endanwender erfordert. Und nicht einfach genug ist. Und gegen das geht, was Werbetreibende heute bereits in größerem Umfang, zu einem geringeren Kostenfaktor, von bekannteren Unternehmen erhalten.
Würde einige Dinge verbessern und neue Ökonomien entstehen lassen.
Offizielle Webpage: https://solid.inrupt.com/
Github: https://github.com/solid/solid
