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re:Publica | Care by Communities: non zero-sum provision of health and social care

re:Publica | Care by Communities: non zero-sum provision of health and social care | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
  The migration issue dominates the European political debate. The influx of migrants, some people say, will break the European welfare system. Any new person coming in is reducing the amount of care that others can get. Care is supposedly a zero-sum game. Is this really the case?
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Decision makers ignore technology impact

Decision makers ignore technology impact | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Most of America’s lawmakers still don’t use email. As Sascha Meinrath, founder of the Open Technology Institute says, that means the people making important decisions about how Americans use techno...
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the Global Village Construction Set of Marcin Jakubowski - metronome

the Global Village Construction Set of Marcin Jakubowski - metronome | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A modern, comfortable lifestyle relies on a variety of efficient Industrial Machines. If you eat bread, you rely on an Agricultural Combine. If you live in a wood house, you rely on a Sawmill. Each of these machines relies on other machines in order for it to exist. If you distill this complex web of interdependent machines into a reproduceable, simple, closed-loop system, you get 50 base industrial machines. For a concise presentation go here. The Global Village Construction Set(GVCS) is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.
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Arduino Blog – Monitoring Solitary Bees Using Open Technology

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“Bees in the Backyard” is a citizen science technology project to investigate the nesting behavior of Mason bees, created by Mike Teachman, amateur bee enthusiast and Paul Perrault senior field applications engineer.

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In 2014, Every Business Will Be Disrupted By Open Technology - Forbes

In 2014, Every Business Will Be Disrupted By Open Technology - Forbes | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The most salient aspect of technology is its power to disrupt.  The important innovations are the ones that change our world so profoundly that the previous order becomes not only untenable, but unthinkable.

 
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