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Open Source Flu (updated)

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Weekend Topsight, August 11/12, 2007

"Hey, Jamais, what's up with the lack of blogging? You turning into a slacker or something?" I wish. I could use the sleep. Four big projects for IFTF. Continuation of the Open University project (from home, this time). Prep for...

Open Source with a Bullet: John Robb's Brave New War

The U.S. is Microsoft. Al Qaeda is Linux. That, at least, is the grossly-oversimplified version of John Robb's new book, Brave New War. Such a parallel has nothing to do with politics, but with position. The United States, and other...

Saturday Topsight, April 21, 2007

• CardioBot: The Heartlander is an inch-long robot designed to crawl across the surface of a living, beating heart, in order to carry out various medical tasks. Inserting the Heartlander requires minimally-invasive surgery, potentially under local anesthetic (i.e., out-patient heart...

One Revolution Per Child

I wish that Nicolas Negroponte had never referred to it as the "one hundred dollar computer." Yes, yes, it's an attention-grabbing name, but noting with a smirk that the first ones will actually cost $150 has become a game for...

Open Source Terraforming

Whether we like it or not, geoengineering -- a process I've taken to calling "(re)terraforming the Earth" -- is now on the table as a strategy for dealing with onrushing climate disaster. This isn't because it's a particularly good idea;...

Beauty and the Beast

Damn, that iPhone is pretty. I am primarily a Mac user, so I follow the annual announcements at Macworld fairly closely. This year, most folks expected Steve Jobs to unveil a phone, so when he announced it, few people were...

The New World: the Rise of the New Culture of Participation

The following is the text of the talk I gave this morning at the International Association for Public Participation conference in Montreal, Canada. Where useful or necessary, I've added the relevant slide images. Updated: added links. My name is Jamais...

Open Taxonomy

As noted below, I'm starting to think again about how open source scenario planning might work. First issue to look at is the question of what it means to be open. Not all open systems are open in the same...

OtF Core: The Open Future

To get a sense of how this perspective has evolved over the past couple of years, here's "The Open Future," the essay that kicked off a series I produced for WorldChanging in my final month. The most important improvement, in...

OtF Core: Open the Future

I wrote nearly 2,000 articles for WorldChanging, and I am very happy to have them there. Nonetheless, some of the pieces I wrote are fundamental parts of my worldview, and it's useful to have them here, too. "Open the Future,"...

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