MachineMachine /stream - tagged with generation https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[The London Riots: On Consumerism coming Home to Roost]]> http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/08/the-london-riots-on-consumerism-coming-home-to-roost/

These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers. Revolutions are not staple products of social inequality; but minefields are. Minefields are areas filled with randomly scattered explosives: one can be pretty sure that some of them, some time, will explode – but one can’t say with any degree of certainty which ones and when. Social revolutions being focused and targeted affairs, one can possibly do something to locate them and defuse in time. Not the minefield-type explosions, though. In case of the minefields laid out by soldiers of one army you can send other soldiers, from another army, to dig mines out and disarm; a dangerous job, if there ever was one – as the old soldiery wisdom keeps reminding: “the sapper errs only once”. But in the case of minefields laid out by social inequality even such remedy, 

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:32:53 -0700 http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/08/the-london-riots-on-consumerism-coming-home-to-roost/
<![CDATA[VIDEO ROOM 1000 COMPLETE MIX -- All 1000 videos seen in sequential order!]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:21:29 -0800 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0&feature=youtube_gdata <![CDATA[Don Tapscott on the ways the Net Generation learn differently]]> http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Lecture_20090523_834124_DTapscott

The author of Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott, refutes the belief that the internet is turning today's youth into "the dumbest generation". Tapscott illustrates how the net has changed the way people learn and offers suggestions on how to tap into the expertise that the Net Generation possesses.

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:27:00 -0700 http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Lecture_20090523_834124_DTapscott