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Broadband Boosts Well-Being as Effectively as a Robust Economy - The Daily Stat - May 23
Broadband Boosts Well-Being as Effectively as a Robust Economy A 10 percentage point increase in broadband penetration produces the same lift in the population's subjective well-being as a 2.89% increase in GDP per capita, say Georgios Kavetsos of Cass Business School and Pantelis Koutroumpis of Imperial College Business School, both in London.
Rival versions of capitalism: The endangered public company
AS THIS newspaper went to press, Facebook was about to become a public company. It will be one of the biggest stockmarket flotations ever: the social-networking giant expects investors to value it at $100 billion or so. The news raises several questions, from “Is it worth that much?”
C’est une proposition concrète qui doit rassembler derrière elle les millions de citoyens dont l’impuissance politique est programmée dans la constitution. En lisant les 6 chapitres de ce site, vous comprendrez pourquoi si vous voulez changer quoi que ce soit dans le fonctionnement actuel de notre société, vous devez faire de ce message votre seule revendication : de son application découlera tout le reste. Afin de comprendre concrètement la force de ce message prenez maintenant quelques minutes pour lire les six chapitres du site, ils sont très courts.
Le Message | Comprenez le, diffusez le, reprenez le pouvoir.
The Visual Thinking Revolution is Here! | Duarte Blog
We are in the midst of a “Visual Thinking Revolution” and leaders in all types of organizations are embracing visual thinking as a literacy of the future. Source: MBA Career Service Professionals (click to enlarge)
Cradle-to-cradle design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cradle-to-cradle design (sometimes abbreviated to C2C , or cradle 2 cradle , or in some circles referred to as regenerative ) is a biomimetic approach to the design of systems.
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule.
La démocratie par tirage au sort » OWNI, News, Augmented
Le suffrage par le sort est de la nature de la démocratie ; le suffrage par choix est de celle de l’aristocratie. – Montesquieu. Il peut paraître choquant aujourd’hui de se demander si suffrage universel et la démocratie sont identiques, tant le droit de vote a été difficile à acquérir, et tant il est évident que les peuples qui en sont privés sont pour cela même privés de démocratie. De fait, il n’est pas de démocratie sans que le peuple opère ses choix par le suffrage universel.
Technology
The Future of Computing - NYTimes.com
China’s booming economy and growing technological infrastructure may thrust it to the forefront of the next generation of computing, many American experts say. Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing Facing the physical limits of conventional design, researchers work to design a computing architecture that more closely resembles that of the brain .
Hack your company !
With Cyber Monday, the tablet wars kicked into full swing.
Stop Competing to Be the Best - Joan Magretta - Harvard Business Review
First, Let's Fire All the Managers - Harvard Business Review
How essential is it to have layers of executives supervising workers?
When Annie created and launched The Story of Stuff in December of 2007, that was supposed to be it.
The Story of Stuff Project
Crowdsourcing