Cybertopia is a brilliant look at the world silicon valley wants to make. Burning man mixed with hippies and then a bit of Ayn Rand. What??? Yes they can do it because they have billions and billions of dollars. Or are Bitcoins better. You judge.
Contented progress (wellbeing)
I want to propose an idea that can make us contented (happy), imaginative, and progressive. Some may say contentment with what we have, and imaginative progress, are not contradictory. But how could we possibly be happy with what we have and still want to imagine and create a better future? I believe we can solve this contradiction by harnessing time …
Sleepers went back to work
Recently I have been reading Barry Jones’ Sleepers Wake – Technology and the future of work, written in 1982 it foresees a post service work environment, technology will have saved us from much toil and we will need a guaranteed income for all (similar to my Flat Payment) to provide for all those who are not employed with the means …
The fallacy of Shareholder democracy – the owners are all opaque holding companies
Elected governments really don’t have much power any more because they have ceded most of it to corporations which we believe we control through share ownership but we are hopelessly wrong. Corporations are some of the few organisations that have true global influence so if we were to have a global democracy we would want them in our power …
Driving the Flinders Ranges SA
This film was taken from the front of a VW Passat as I drove the tracks east to west through the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Along the way I encounter emu and kangaroos. Wait the the creek bed which is part of the track, the escarpments are some of the oldest rocks on earth. David Campbell
Images of Cremourne
By David J Campbell Author of Fluidity – the way to true DemoKratia
Jim Sullivan –“UFO”
In 1969 the brilliant and enigmatic singer songwriter Jim Sullivan released what may be a prophetic album UFO. In 2010 a reissue of UFO was released by Light in the Attic an American Reissue label that specializes in obscure albums. The boffins at Light in the Attic spent some time trying to locate the original Master tapes but unfortunately after …