Here is a newer version of a video that has been doing its rounds for a couple of years.
All the trivia aside, this video is about investing in an education system that is quickly becoming obsolete.
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Courtesy New York Public Library @ Flickr Commons Yes. Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Circa 1936. Pick any little town or village you’ve visited in the past and try to imagine what it will be in 50 years. What are the right attributes that would make it burst with a live of [...] Because I spend a lot of my day working around all things travel, that knowledge somehow defines a general theme for many of my posts. Even on my twitter account (@globalculture) I often find it easier to engage in casual conversation whenever the topic is travel. People lighten up when talking about travel. [...] Courtesy milachich @ Flickr Montenegro continues to experience important growth in its tourism industry. Once a small fishing village on a ridge by the sea shore which experienced an unbelievable transformation, it became during the seventies and eighties one of the Montenegro’s most famous tourist centers for the high paying clientèle’s.Sophia Loren, one of [...] Given the current economic trends in the travel industry, it is expected prices will drop in many fronts. From the analysis of the recent Competitiveness 2009 report we can even derive that some regions will have to try much harder to compensate for factors such as dependency from long-haul passengers. In an effort to understand [...] As part of The Universe in ‘09, SEED Magazine includes a number of self-explanatory visualizations. One that got my attention is called “Connecting Distant Dots” which represents a number of global processes and the way they reinforce or inhibit each other. Right at the center of the chart: Population Growth. [...] Only a few days since posting digital breadcrumb have been necessary to come across an interesting collection of projects that have been running for the last couple of years with the objective of visualizing/analysing various data sets that one way or another reveal activity in urban centres: Digital Footprinting: Uncovering Tourists with User-Generated Content: a [...] |
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