Global Culture

Do you think that foreign nations should participate in the election of American presidents?
Writer David Usborne writes Outside Influence - USA in the February 2008 issue of Monocle:
Look beyond the cliché of hidebound insularism and you quickly see that just as the rest of the world is not immune to American influences, America is not [...]

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After finding inspiration in the insightful fiction from Bruce Sterling about our hyperlocal future I wrote in hyperlocal culture:
The mechanisms that will enable society to hyperlocalize, therefore allowing to grow stronger as a unique entity are still to be developed, but if the future is anything like his imagination suggests, we are going to [...]

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Back in September I made a cryptic invitation to those interested in previewing a new kind of travel guide. Since the most read post in the last year is best reasons to travel, I know that most readers of this blog are very interested in all things travel, foreign countries, cities in other [...]

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A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to be invited to one of those social clubs for executives that were so popular a few decades ago. No the health club type, but the lounge with really expensive furniture where gentlemen of the highest social spheres get together to read the newspaper and [...]

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