Global Culture

I owe a big apology to all my loyal readers for keeping you in the dark over the last 3 months. Since my last post I travelled to Mexico twice, shared the stage in San Francisco with some of the authorities on the “geoweb”, travelled to Corsica, the French Riviera, Lake Como, St. Moritz; [...]

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The special report “Nomads at last” in the April 12th issue of The Economist comes with a series of articles about how mobile technology is changing the fundamental fabric of today’s society, ranging from work attitudes to the effects it may have on language evolution. Altogether a collection worth reading.
About a year ago, [...]

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Clustering of like-minded individuals is not a new idea, but new research based on the mapping of personality types reveals one very interesting trend about the group called “Open To Experience People”: they are far more distributed than any of the other groups.

In his post The Personality Map, Richard Florida presents these [...]

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Mexico City is such a big city that most inhabitants would have problems defining its boundaries. Most people could probably name 2 or 3 access routes, but defining its boundaries is an exercise better left to city planners. A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to transit through a new highway [...]

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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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Every year Stan Stalnaker and his team of global citizens gather their experiences around the world and summarize in this, their now famous Hub Culture’s Zeitgeist Ranking, the cities that for a variety of reasons seem to be at the center of the Universe. An elusive classification that doesn’t get impressed with economic power, [...]

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If you read this blog you’re likely fascinated by travel. If on top of that you are an avid photographer (the kind that has an amazing collection of travel photos) and would like to try a new kind of online travel guide, post a comment to be invited to an exclusive preview of a [...]

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