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anthonyqkiernan

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Reith Lectures 07: Bursting at the seams

Apr 11, 2007, 10:11

It's that time of year again.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs discusses and tries to come up with solutions to just about everything.

BBC wrote:

Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world faces challenges on an unprecedented scale - the destruction of the planet through global warming, terrorism, extreme poverty, disease and bad governance. Discover more and about the solutions he offers.

Not really familiar with Sachs, but found some of his points very interesting this morning. These are available as a podcast.

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Edited Apr 11, 2007, 16:17

Re: Reith Lectures 07: Bursting at the seams

Apr 11, 2007, 11:06

Been reading the transcript of lecture 1.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/lecture1.shtml

Basically, we've got to look after each other or we're all fucked.

"If Wikipedia and Linux can be built in an open source manner, politics can be done in that manner as well. We are going to need a new way to address and to solve global problems, but our connectivity will bring us tools unimaginable even just a few years ago. I'm going to try to explain how this can be done, how without a global government we can still get global co-operation..."

Hmmm.... Global Internet Government??? Now where have I heard that before? :o)

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