Global Culture

hyper as in linked, and local as in location
In a fascinating dispatch from the future, author Bruce Sterling brings us the ultimate global citizen: Harvey Feldspar, who as a modern Phileas Fogg describes his encounter with world cultures with the only difference that he does it from the year 2017.

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I used to live two parallel lives: working as a technologist on a digital agency by day and writing for this blog by night. For more than a year I managed to keep them separate, but blogging was an exercise of introspection and through it I learned of many things that I was [...]

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The Age from Australia has ranked the top Tech capitals of the world, based on a combination of factors such as cost and availability of broadband connectivity, wireless internet access, technology adoption, government support, education and technology culture.

SeoulSouth Korea
SingaporeSingapore
TokyoJapan
Hong KongChina
StockholmSweden
San Francisco & Silicon ValleyUnited States
TallinnEstonia
New YorkUnited States
BeijingChina
New Songdo CitySouth Korea

Wonder where your [...]

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Although there is plenty of debate regarding how useful the GDP is to measure the size of an economy, the following map shows an interesting way to appreciate the massive size of the United States economy in comparison to that of other countries, which can only hope to size against one of its states.

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Spearheaded by San Francisco, a group of cities have created a global Digital City Network with the following objectives:

Broker international relationships between educational, business, and community-based digital media organizations; Create new business to business ventures between jurisdictions; Support the growth and innovation of existing digital media businesses; Develop new cutting-edge digital media companies in [...]

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The Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and a wide variety of organization and endorsed by an impressive list of international figures has launched the Vision of Humanity site.
Peace and sustainability are the cornerstones of humanity’s survival in the 21st century. The major challenges facing humanity today are [...]

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