Steven Johnson has an excellent column in the New York Times, on the iPhone and the mixed merits of open and closed platforms. He begins with a reference to Jonathan Zittrain’s work on “generativity,” (familiar to readers of this blog) i.e. “the ability of a self-contained system to provide an independent ability to create, generate [...]
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by OpenConceptual on 07-04-2009
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Read Carlin Romano’s piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Obama, Philosopher in Chief” (via aldaily). The article includes a number of useful references for further study (if you haven’t read them already). Adding to Obama’s speech in Cairo (as well as at Buchenwald and Omaha Beach), here are some key books mentioned: Kwame Anthony Appiah, [...]
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It’s about preparing for the future. Since we don’t know what the future will bring, we can’t know exactly how to prepare. What we can be sure of is that we’ll need to be creative, nimble, knowledgeable, open, adventurous, experienced… We need to be ready to capitalize on emerging opportunities and challenges (ones that never [...]
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Remixing the Generation M Manifesto
by OpenConceptual on 07-11-2009
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David Eaves did something awesome. I didn’t clue into this possibility when I blogged about Umair Haque’s Generation M Manifesto. He literally remixed and edited it. I was inspired to start editing it myself but found I wanted to change too much — not that I disagreed with the spirit of the thing (which I agree [...]
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