Monthly Archives: February 2005

In the Year 2045…

Posted on February 9, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Recently Cyndy sent me the link to this prediction of life in the year 2000, written in 1961, before the Beatles, before the Kennedy assassination, and before personal computers and the Internet. Like most futuristic predictions of the time it … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 6 Comments

When Will Business Embrace Blogs?

Posted on February 8, 2005 by Dave Pollard

I started my blog in February 2003, about two years ago, because it was part of my job to investigate leading-edge developments in Knowledge Management (KM). This was at a time when my personal online time was dropping precipitously. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology, Working Smarter | 6 Comments

The Right to Privacy

Posted on February 7, 2005 by Dave Pollard

In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis wrote an article in Harvard Law Review that established the principle of privacy in America for the first time. Although the courts have been establishing precedents to protect privacy in the US ever … Continue reading →

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How the ‘Free’ Market Ruins the Entertainment Media

Posted on February 6, 2005 by Dave Pollard

There’s a fascinating article in this week’s New Yorker by Louis Menand about the history of the US film industry. It describes what’s happened to the industry since its #1 year, way back in 1946: 1946 2004 Studio films released … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 15 Comments

Odds & Ends

Posted on February 5, 2005 by Dave Pollard

A picture that tells the whole story: Where the US budget deficit is headed. From the NYT, link courtesy What Would Dick Think. The Next Great Distraction: We seem to be lurching from one short-term crisis (most of them manufactured, … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works | 4 Comments

Duties Beyond Borders: Towards a Society Built on Respect for All Life

Posted on February 4, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Peter Brown’s latest book provides a dispassionate, rational and compelling argument for the need to change our economic, political and social systems in order to properly steward the planet, and practical ideas on how to do so. Conservationist Peter Brown … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 2 Comments

Where Do Your Great Ideas Come from?

Posted on February 3, 2005 by Dave Pollard

(Source: Idea Champions) Some more ‘fun with numbers’ today. A while ago I mentioned Idea Champions’ When & Where Do You Get Your Best Ideas? survey. If you haven’t taken the survey already, you can still do so. But before … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 6 Comments

The Ten Most Important Ideas of 2004: Business & the Economy

Posted on February 2, 2005 by Dave Pollard

This is the second installment of my three annual ‘top 10 ideas’ lists. The list for Blogs and the Internet is here; the one for Politics & Society will be out later this month. Here are my nominations for the … Continue reading →

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A Better Way

Posted on February 1, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Many of us, living in this world of unprecedented prosperity and wealth, somehow sense that there is something terribly wrong. Everywhere we look we see conflict, deprivation, violence, waste, suffering, greed, destruction, hatred. This document is an attempt to understand … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch | 10 Comments