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POPSUs Now - a must see To unbundle the old system and let a new one emerge. Very insightful approach to politics and human involvement at large. Thanks to wildcat for twitting the link to the movie that introduced me to this venture.
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POPSSocial Technology is Transforming our World Here are some examples of how social technology is transforming our world. 1. My professional blog is my storefront. 2. Higher Education needs to be re-examined. Self-education is key. 3. Experts are available on the Internet.
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POPSPledgeBank - what is it? an interesting initiative Here at PledgeBank, we’re quite proud of the actions people have taken to improve their communities. Each of the successful pledges on the site mark something significant – trees planted, books distributed, friendships formed, votes cast, money donated, letters written, and a whole host of other actions.
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POPSWay-new collaboration Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.
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POPSMind & Life Modern physics is perhaps where this second meeting ground is most visible. Physics is in the middle of a conceptual revolution pursuing the so-called unification efforts, in order to relate the minute universe of quantum mechanism to that of macrophysics and gravitation. As is well known, such research has opened numerous gaping epistemological questions; for example non-locality, the origin of the universe, and the role of the observer.