An interesting new book about the relationship between games and military thought : “Stretching from 3000 BC to today, this book investigates how military cultures and the evolution of games have been closely linked, from video gaming’s ancestors like chess and go, to the popularization of the 19th century Kriegspiel, to the development of computers… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2006"
Book Review: The World Café | by Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, World Cafe Community, Margaret J. Wheatley
The World Café is a collaborative tool developed for problem-solving, collective understanding, and social change. The following by Hassan Masum is re-blogged from WorldChanging.com. (Please also see our recent post on The Reputation Society, a forthcoming book by Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang and our Archive for the ‘P2P-Collaboration’ Category.) So what is a World… Continue reading
P2P International Currency Exchange
[via P2P Blog] [bliki | what is a bliki?] Moneytwins.com describes itself as: “..the first service that allows individuals and small companies to exchange their foreign currency notes directly with each other without using the services of a bank. There is a unique price for each currency at which transactions happen, the same that is… Continue reading
Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare, by Andrew Glyn
In Capitalism Unleashed, Economist Andrew Glyn takes a hard look at the “progress” of Capitalism in the latter half of the 20th Century and asks the all important question: At what cost? Whence and whither? In a recent interview by Rob Hoveman on SocialistReview.org.uk, Dr. Glyn stated his motivation for writing the book as follows:Â… Continue reading
Social technology and the hidden dimension of time
Anthony Giddens, British sociologist and one of my long-time personal guiding lights, has characterized the primary interest of sociology as an effort “to explicate how the limitations of individual ‘presence’ are transcended by the ‘stretching’ of social relations across time and space.â€? It’s always seemed to me that the growing adoption of social technologies–like this… Continue reading