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“ News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones. ”
28.5.10
Cycling + Design + Art
by SungKug Kim
Awareness Test
A clever campaign from ‘London Transport’, reminding us how our vision fails terribly at most tasks.
Yet, we never seem to realize it.
“ Those who don’t know what
to do, do what they know ”
— Russell Miles
Here is what Open Sailing is all about: a totally new — but possible — lifestyle at sea, this whole system is sustainable and open to self evolution.
01.11.09
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Podcast with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.
Explaining why our usual ways of thinking at events in life are basically wrong.
Also, in 2007: “Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while reducing volatility and giving the appearance of stability. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans. We have never lived before under the threat of a global collapse.
Financial Institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks – when one fails, they all fall.” Spot on.
“ A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. ”
— Jim Sorensen
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