h+ magazine:

Abundance is a condition where everyone has enough to eat, a decent place to live, a steady income, good medical care, a good education, a safe neighborhood, a clean environment, and a secure retirement. Abundance is where poverty does not exist, and everyone has an opportunity to become rich. Peoples’ Capitalism is a pathway to Abundance in the United States before the year 2050. Peoples’ Capitalism is a plan to make every citizen into a capitalist, i.e., a person who owns capital assets and derives a significant income from them.

Mir hat sich allerdings noch nicht so recht erschlossen, woher das Einkommen dieses Kapitals dann kommen soll – schließlich hat man niemanden mehr, dem man Geld leihen könnte um dann von den Zinsraten zu leben.

Update: die Frage wurde in den Kommentaren gestellt und auch beantwortet:

Capital assets are the means of production e.g., factories, businesses, farms, food processing facilities, trucks, ships, railroads, airplanes, mines, oil drilling platforms, refinerys, chemical plants, power plants, and yes solar panel array factories. These earn money by creating goods and services that people want and need, and if they have income, will buy. This creates profits that are returned to the owners of the means of production.

Stephen Hawking:

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach.

Und falls sie auf die Erde kommen, und deutlich intelligenter sind als der Mensch, unabhängig ihrer Intention: Wie sollten sie uns von anderen Tieren im Sinne einer intelligenten Spezies unterscheiden können? Wir wären wohl eher Ektoparasiten.

Via Singularity & Futurism.

Steven Hodson:

This is no longer your web or my web but rather the pitched corporate battle ground where things like privacy are looked upon as the mutual enemy and that we need to be coerced into believing that these companies know what is best for us.

Die Revolution wird kommerzialisiert.

Via @mroehr und Florian Helling.

Lama Surya Das:

Are there any facts we can count on anymore in this protean world of ours? Or is it all just smoke and mirrors, like a dream, and entirely subjective? What’s with science these days, the supposedly reliable arbiter of modern realities and verities?

Wert zu reflektieren, und wenn schon nur für I believe that Good Enough is the enemy of excellence, and that we are far too willing to settle.

Via Tim A. Bohlen.

Spannend für jede Art von Innovation:

Things that really change the type of world we live in, technological or otherwise, aren't usually big, complex or awe-inspiring. Instead, they're simple, reliable and easy to replicate, usually fulfilling a very basic niche. For that reason they prove extremely infectious and end up shaping countless lives.

Via Tim O'Reilly.