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October 22, 2004
Alex Steffen from Worldchanging.com says that we're doomed — too many people, etc. — but that there is in fact another world already here. He points to Jim Moore's Second Super Power, Howard Dean, Linus Torvalds, wikipedia, Creative Commons, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Lula is rengotiating the relationship between the developed and underdeveloped worlds, Alex says. Brazil is giving broadband to poor areas and seeing rapid economic improvement. He also points to the Internet Bookmobile, a merry-go-round that pumps water as kids play, a rollable water jug, and a flower that has bee nengineered to detect land mines. Then there's the pond scum that emits hydrogen. [Very upbeat talk. But we're all doomed.] Posted
by D. Weinberger at October 22, 2004 09:34 AM
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