Global Culture

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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A few days ago I had a very stimulating conversation with a group of friends, each one sharing their account of recent travel abroad. While talking about Prague and Budapest evoked great memories, it was the story about cultural shock on a trip to India that had me fascinated. Was it not for [...]

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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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In virtually every species, the metabolic rate is equal to the mass of the animal raised to the 3/4 power [...] In metropolis after metropolis, the indicators of urban “metabolism” -like the per-capita consumption of gasoline or the surface area of roads or the total length of electrical cables- scaled to an exponent of (population)0.8
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One of my first posts in this blog described a simple method to exchange valuable information among global citizens. The method suggested in global citizen was never adopted by anyone but the idea didn’t die. This past week our team released a Facebook application called My City, which has the potential to accomplish [...]

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Nothing like finding hidden connections between ideas, specially when they seemed so distant. My post lonelytv seemed a good exercise in interpreting McLuhan, which is a worthy cause in its own. It also seemed a good way to discretely reveal facts about me: I don’t watch TV; at least not in [...]

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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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