Global Culture

Prof. Mike Madison has published his Manifesto for a New Pittsburgh, recognizing above all that in an era of hyper-connectivity there are plenty of resources that cities must take advantage of in order to leverage the influence they have on other regions by means of their fellow citizens who have migrated.
In the 21st century, connectivity [...]

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The March/April 2007 issue of Foreign Policy has an article by Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat entitled Why the World Isn’t Flat (subscribers only).
Professor Ghemawat main argument is that most proponents of globalization or anti-globalization are wrong: The world is not as globalized as they all want us to think.
the [...]

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With his post Global Warming Is Not a Threat But the Environmentalist Response to It Is, George Reisman comes to the rescue of the capitalist values that justify the actions of global corporations as they continue their irresponsible abuse of the planet.
Since I posted my own comentary about the IPCC report about a month ago, [...]

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Observing this visualization produced by NASA the phrase “light at the end of the tunnel” acquires a new meaning when we consider that the usual flow of migrants typically goes from darker areas to those were light abounds. Whether the flow is from rural to urbanized areas or from the developing world to [...]

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I’ve found many ways of pointing the finger to global corporations for the displacement of humans, based mostly on the premise that globalization has shifted human activity to those hubs where it is cheaper. But in the game of crisis-induced migrations, globalization may have found its match: global warming. We should start to [...]

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According to Dale Dougherty from the O’Reilly Radar those were the words of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop per Child, a non-profit association dedicated to research and develop a $100 laptop. He was responding to the question “Do you have to be American to be good?” asked by moderator Martin Varsavsky at the [...]

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According to my analytics software, and by virtue of being a finalist for the best new weblog bloggie, it seems there is a very high probability that you are new to this blog. As such, I would like to give you my elevator pitch so you can decide if you should subscribe or just [...]

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