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The hackers’ answer was called vTaiwan. (The “v” stands for virtual.) A mixed-reality, scaled listening exercise, it was an entirely new way to make decisions. The platform invites citizens into an online space for debate that politicians listen to and take into account when casting their votes.
Bio. "Yuk Hui studied Computer Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and Goldsmiths College in London, with a focus on philosophy of technology. Since 2012 he teaches philosophy at the institute of philosophy and art (IPK) of the Leuphana University Lüneburg where he wrote his habilitation thesis.
This chapter explores historical ideas of Chinese (huaxia) identity through an examination of ethnic concepts implied in historical writings on the Five Dynasties, completed in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries.
Bio. "Yoonseo Kang is an open source hardware developer and entrepreneur. Yoonseo aspires toward a world where all designs, tools and material supply chains, and manufacturing techniques of modern technologies are accessible for everyone.
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1. " The Fourth Turning is a book about human social cycles in America written by two respected generational historians, Howe and Strauss. They make a very convincing case for a disaster and era of economic depression and crisis, possibly total war, in the coming years. Like the Kondratieff wave, based on price behaviour over time, they are essenti...
Neil Howe: "We think that generations move history along and prevent society from suffering too long under the excesses of any particular generation. People often assume that every new generation will be a linear extension of the last one. You know, that after Generation X comes Generation Y. They might further expect Generation Y to be like Gen X ...
The Generational Turnings
Neil Howe: "A turning is an era with a characteristic social mood, a new twist on how people feel about themselves and their nation. It results from the aging of the generational constellation. A society enters a turning once every twenty years or so, when all living generations begin to enter their next phases of life. Like archetypes and constellations, turnings come four to a saeculum, and always in the same order: 1. The First Turning is a High —an upbeat era of strengthening institutions...
The Current Saeculum
"Each turning comes with its own identifiable mood. Always, these mood shifts catch people by surprise. In the current saeculum, the First Turning was the American High of the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy presidencies. As World War II wound down, no one predicted that America would soon become so confident and institutionally muscular, yet so conformist and spiritually complacent. But that?s what happened. The Second Turning was the Consciousness Revolution, stretching from the campus revo...
The Archetypes
John Mauldin: "The core idea behind the Fourth Turning (and the other three turnings that precede it) is a repeating pattern of four society-driving, generational “archetypes.” Howe and Strauss observed how societies change in a cycle as each generation assumes cultural dominance in its middle age years. The interplay between the dominant generation, the fading one that preceded it, and the upcoming younger generation follows an almost musical rhythm. At the same time, each generation isn’t j...
In the film, the former executive producer for Discovery Channel in Asia profiles a wide range of Twitter users including a travel journalist turned twilebrity Stefanie Michaels, to a homeless woman tweeting from the public library to a woman using twitter as her personal GPS."
Professor Lei traces the development, especially since the mid 2000s of a so-called techno developmental regime, characterized by the expansion of instrumental power over the people by means of new technologies and new legal norms. So she brings her skills as a sociologist and a legal specialist into this work.
