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Emerging EcoNomics

Mon, 28 May 2012 22:50:44 -0400

If you enjoy the ‘Emerging new economy’ article this one is a must as it goes beyond our current monetary system by offering wider perspectives about what we are witnessing emerge.

ECONOMICS THAT PUTS MONEY IN ITS PLACE

Finally, there are major theoretical breakthroughs that support all of these approaches and “de-monetize” both economic activity and our very ideas of what constitutes “value” and “wealth”. In addition to theories of “the commons”, equity, and slow-growth noted in Alperovitz’s essay, we see the following ideas also emerging:

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Your House: The Next Great Digital Network

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:33:48 -0400

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Connected boxes Twine and Ninja Blocks, card-like Electric Imp, and stand-alone sensor hub Knut all use sensors to communicate information about objects or the environment around them to the Internet — a concept known as “The Internet of Things.”

The Internet of Things has been around for a while. It includes gadgets like connected scales and the Nike+ shoe, as well as identifying technologies as simple as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Over the last few years, however, the hardware involved in putting objects online has become more accessible — and The Internet of Things has made a beeline toward the mainstream.

“Trying to determine the market size of the Internet of Things is like trying to calculate the market for plastics, circa 1940,” Nelson explained in a report by consulting firm the Hammersmith Group. “At that time, it was difficult to imagine that plastics could be in everything.

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Knut internet-connected sensor keeps you in the know via email

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:30:36 -0400

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Much like the Twine device that we saw last November, and the more recent Electric Imp, the Knut is a small sensor-equipped module that enables you to remotely monitor equipment and spaces in your home. The Knut comes equipped with a temperature sensor so that you can monitor the temperature of your wine refrigerator, humidor, basement, etc. It connects to the internet via Wi-Fi and can send out alerts and information to its owner by way of email and text message.

See on gizmag.com

Too Much Information: Monitoring Becomes a Big Data Problem

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:55:13 -0400

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In a keynote address this week at EMC World, VMware CEO Paul Maritz talked about the growing monitoring challenge as system pools and the sheer amount of information these systems generate grows ever larger.

To put it another way, monitoring has become a big data problem.

He claimed that the number of devices connected to the Internet is going up by a factor of 10, and the growth is not just being fueled by humans, but also by an increasing number of internet-enabled devices feeding more and more data into the system.

This ‘Internet of Things’ will interact with the virtual world in a fundamentally different way than we do and they will be feeding us vast quantities of information, which we in turn have to process to build a better understanding of our world. These tools could be even baked into the systems we need to monitor.

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Commons Economy Rising

Fri, 25 May 2012 02:59:01 -0400

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by @Connoropolous

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Hyperconnected Bodies the rising cloud of selfaware data

Fri, 25 May 2012 01:04:25 -0400

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Put all this data in the cloud, (privacy not included) and personal medicine becomes a reality, tracking our mood, skin temperatures and the analysis of correlated data becomes a new picture we have of ourselves, and a new image we can project unto the world.

“They’re really external extensions of our mind,” said Joseph Tranquillo, associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering at Bucknell University. (referring to all our networked devices- CNN)

So, vast amounts of data, self-tracking, personal information stock exchange, our own memories in the cloud, implants under our skins transmitting the data continuously.

by @Wildcat2030

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Heads-On: MindWave Lets You Control Mobile Games With Brain Waves

Thu, 24 May 2012 07:46:02 -0400

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The Mindwave Mobile Brainwave Headset is a $130 EEG headset that’s compatible with iOS devices, Android phones, and, yes, even desktop computers. The headset measures brainwaves from your forehead — changes in electrical activity, really — which it then filters with complex algorithms to eliminate any interference from other electronic sources, and narrow down what those brainwaves really mean. Currently, the system can detect concentration, meditation and blinks, and uses these cues to control simple iOS and Android games.

See on wired.com

City Dashboard: Aggregating All Spatial Data for Cities in the UK - information aesthetics

Thu, 24 May 2012 02:55:11 -0400

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CityDashboard [citydashboard.org] aggregates various spatial data of about 8 different cities around the UK, and displays this data on a dashboard and a map.

Developed by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis of the University College London, it exemplifies one of the dreams of the smart city movement: to provide a single, open overview of almost all available data streams that a modern city of today creates.

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Gmail and iPhone alums create Electric Imp, connect your toaster to the web

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:00:39 -0400

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Electric Imp is about to make your wireless control / monitoring fantasies a reality with its soon-to-be-released, $25 web interface. It works much like an Eye-Fi card, and communicates with cloud services as well as other connected devices like your Android or iPhone via WiFi. The company is working hard to get the slots that work with the cards into many of the machines that we usually don’t link up to the good ol’ www — but have often wanted to — and it hopes to have everything in place later this year.

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Gmail and iPhone alums create Electric Imp, connect your toaster to the web

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:00:39 -0400

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Is Data Consciousness? | Reality Sandwich

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:35:07 -0400

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Featureteaser: Could the datasphere be an extension of our collective consciousness? If so, could an intentional organization of this data have a profound effect via our unconscious agents of empathy and evolution, mirror neurons?

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Cosm - How Cosm Works

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:05:04 -0400

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The Internet of Things was an idea. Now it’s a reality. Right now on the Cosm platform, developers and companies are connecting devices and apps to securely store and exchange data. It’s the one solution that brings big ideas about the world to the world.

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How Trust Is Built in Peer-to-Peer Marketplaces

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:17:24 -0400

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As the sharing economy continues to gain momentum, the importance of security and trust between users is becoming increasingly apparent. Not only the Airbnb incident in June 2011 or the shutdown of the luxury carsharing company HiGear have shown that peer-to-peer (P2P) marketplaces involve higher risks than business-to-consumer e-commerce. The key advocates of the sharing economy Rachel Botsman and Lisa Gansky have also identified “trust between strangers” as a necessary foundation for the functioning of P2P asset-sharing marketplaces. While the existing reputation systems such as eBay’s rating system may have been sufficient for e-commerce, the newer P2P platforms, such as car or flat sharing, require more complex trust systems. Since acting anonymously is far easier on the Web than in real life, P2P transactions also call for some type of identity verification, that confirms that you are who you say you are. Having recognized these issues, several entrepreneurs in different countries have begun to build portable cross-platform trust and identity systems meant to facilitate the sharing of assets between individuals, such as TrustCloud, Briiefly, Legit and Peertrust.

http://trustcloud.com/

http://briiefly.com/

http://legit.co/

http://peertru.st/

By Francesca Pick

Sharable

Image by opensourceway on Flickr.

ht @wwjimd

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Quantum Consciousness: Our Evolution, Our Salvation

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:42:13 -0400

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The Indian sage Sri Aurobindo spoke of the emergence of superconsciousness in ever more people, and this, he said, is the harbinger of the next evolution of human consciousness. In a similar vein, the Swiss philosopher Jean Gebser spoke of the coming of four-dimensional integral consciousness, rising from the prior stages of archaic, magical and mythical consciousness. The Canadian mystic Richard Bucke called the new consciousness “cosmic,” and in the colorful spiral dynamics developed by Chris Cowan and Don Beck, it’s the turquoise stage of collective individualism, cosmic spirituality and Earth changes. For philosopher Ken Wilber, these developments signify an evolutionary transition from the mental consciousness characteristic of both animals and humans, to subtle consciousness, which is archetypal, transindividual and intuitive, to causal consciousness, and then, ultimately, to “consciousness as such.”

Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof summed up the characteristics of the emerging consciousness as “transpersonal.”

There is remarkable agreement among these visionary concepts. Superconsciousness, integral consciousness, cosmic consciousness, turquoise-stage consciousness, and consciousness as such are all forms of consciousness that transcend the divide between you and me, the individual and the world, the human being and nature. If these thinkers are right, this kind of consciousness will be the next stage in the evolution of the consciousness of our species.

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Occupying the Future, Starting at the Roots

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:34:08 -0400

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In an email sent out in early May, Adbusters urges recipients to “occupy the future;” that is, “to describe, build and sustain the post-capitalist future we want to live in.”

Dayaneni concurs with that sentiment. “People ask me what they can do to support. I say, take more land. Occupy a library, a clinic, whatever, plan it right and [re-launch] it appropriately and at scale. We need to prove that we have the ability to self govern. This is the new moment of occupy, not tit for tat, not cat-and-mouse games with cops, but full-scale intervention. Occupy the Farm is one of the first to-scale interventions.”

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One Idea - on income inequality by Nick Hanauer

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:45:43 -0400

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context: https://tedchris.posterous.com/131417405

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tōd:Connect Real World Actions to Mobile Devices and the Web

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:58:38 -0400

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tōd (pronounced “toad”) is an exciting and powerful new way to connect your mobile device* to the world around and right in front of you, using our bite-sized ultra low power Bluetooth 4.0 enabled Smart Beacons.

Simply attach or place a tōd Smart Beacon, that can run for years on a single coin-cell battery onto anything, anywhere you want to extend mobile device or web functionality. Or, you can interact with Smart Beacons placed by others that you are allowed to connect with.

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mHealth: The Next Frontier For Mobile Service Growth - Forbes

Thu, 17 May 2012 11:39:12 -0400

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Wearable body sensors and remote monitoring can keep chronic patients out of hospitals and improve their quality of life while significantly reducing admission expenses.

Analyst forecasts estimate the potential value of the mHealth market will be $4.6 billion by 2014. The driving forces behind this expected uptick are numerous. Mounting pressure to cut burgeoning costs in the U.S. healthcare system is a government mandated objective; in particular, preventable readmissions cost an estimated $12–17 billion per year. On top of this lies the problem of an aging population, exacerbated by the size of the baby boomer demographic. Americans aged 60 or older represented 18 percent of the U.S. population in 2009; , this segment is expected to grow to 27 percent by 2050.

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The Lexicon of Sustainability

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:31:27 -0400

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Our earliest descendants were hunter/gatherers who foraged for their food, were in tune with their surroundings, and ate with the seasons. After foraging was essentially replaced by agriculture, people became increasingly detached from where their food came from. Foraging offers people a way to reconnect with nature and shows that food is all around us.

@OzarkHerbs offers foraging workshops.

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Hippie Capitalism: How An Impoverished U.S. City Is Building An Economy On Co-ops

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:22:43 -0400

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With sky-high unemployment, Richmond, California, is not a place where traditional business models alone can dent poverty. The city has turned to co-ops in hopes that people who might be unemployable in the traditional economy gain access to both jobs and control over their own labor.

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