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Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ]

18/06/08 Organize the world’s rescue operations.

Evacuation From Trump Tower

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES - Fergus Burns sent me a great piece last night, 21st century capitalism needs a revolution by Umair Haque.

You can read the message in it yourself, how to stop the create/destroy cycle we need to start to organize: “transform DNA, not lower-value technology” to radically change the world for the better for some measure of economic well-being on a global scale.

Organize the world’s hunger.
Organize the world’s energy.
Organize the world’s thirst.
Organize the world’s health.
Organize the world’s freedom.
Organize the world’s finance.
Organize the world’s education.

Umair, please add “Organize the world’s rescue operations.” to your list.

-Robin.

(Image Credit: A rescue operation watched from my apartment this morning. A building-site worker is evacuated in a crane having received a spinal injury working on the Trump Tower, Chicago. Full set on Flickr.)

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15 Comments


19/06/08 Brett

Organize the world’s values/morality
Organize the world’s truth


19/06/08 Robin Blandford

Truth - Nice. Isn’t that what Wikipedia is trying?


20/06/08 Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ] » Blog Archive » Apps For Yourself For Everyone

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25/06/08 rdomanski

This is a fantastic and long-overdue discussion that Haque raises. What many of these questions really get to is what should be the larger purpose of software. What human values should software embody, and how should developers then integrate those values into code?

http://thenerfherder.blogspot.com/2008/06/web-debate-on-saving-world.html


25/06/08 A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution « Ikool’s Blogbed

[...] list - it’s just a beginning. In fact, let’s open source it: please add to it (“organize the world’s xyz”), and we’ll keep an index here or [...]


26/06/08 Christopher G

>> Organize the world’s values/morality

The Taliban, Catholic Church, and your nosy neighbor volunteer.

>> Organize the world’s truth

Start with a definition of ‘truth’, plz.


27/06/08 Rob Bole

Organize the world’s solutions

We spend plenty of time with documenting best practices, but with the opportunities for a truly social media we can solve people’s problems by combining the wisdom of both experts and the crowd.


29/06/08 A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution | Financial Markets

[...] list - it’s just a beginning. In fact, let’s open source it: please add to it (“organize the world’s xyz”), and we’ll keep an index here or [...]


29/06/08 ob1

Organize worlds youth
Organize worlds transport/traveling!


30/06/08 GopiKrishan Bali

Organize the world’s Spirituality

Organize the world’s Oneness

Organize the world’s Intellect

and just allow it to FLOW free…without borders

Happy Thoughts


05/07/08 Bob Stokes

Organize the world’s nutjobs and send them on Mars mission.


08/07/08 Darryl Collins

Organise the world’s access to public sector information…


08/07/08 Nathan Bobbin

Organize the world’s skills

Wouldn’t it be nice to have your handy neighbor fix your leaky faucet rather than pay Roto Rooter. He, in-turn, could enlist you to fix his computer.


13/07/08 NilsR

organise the world’s waste


11/08/08 Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ] » Blog Archive » Opensourced Seedcamp Application Form

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