Cities. Global Guerrillas: RESILIENT COMMUNITY: Technological Acceleration. The pace of technological change is accelerating exponentially.
Fact, not much real debate on that. Most important to our analysis is how this change superempowers small groups, allowing them to accomplish activities normally reserved for large corporations or governments. The keys to this supermepowerment are: Better tools. Moore's law, Carlson curves, and personal fabrication (DIY everything, the start of an exponential rate of improvement for matter/products). Resources for Small Group Superempowerment. This doesn't seem to have received much attention, but the world's most powerful supercomputer entered operation recently...
This may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not by a government or megacorporation but by criminals. The question remains, now that they have the world's most powerful supercomputer system at their disposal, what are they going to do with it? Social Innovator. Official Blog of the Public Library Association. I was drawn into the New Museum on New York’s lower east side this morning, because I was curious to see “Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context”.
I’m starting a new job on Monday as a Web Librarian at San Jose Public Library (yes!!!) And I was curious to see what kind of “hub” activities going on at the New Museum might be adaptable to the library world, especially since the web is such a great medium for collaboration. In their words, the Museum as Hub “reveals a partnership of arts organizations looking to pursue experimental methods of exhibition, communication, and collaboration, and considers the consequences of being part of a “hub”—what it means to displace conversations and activity from elsewhere to New York”. Global Guerrillas: JOURNAL: Why Community Resilience? Machine project.