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June 13, 2005

Push...post first break...

Ethan Zuckerman…Fiji Bottled Water…

Fiji is far from Cambridge, MA. Fiji is far from anything.

Miracle of integrated shipping. 800 billion kilograms. TEUs, twenty foot equivalent unit.

Pittsfield, MA, dying industrial town. pretty good fish market.

Compares Fiji to Nigeria…

Reason #1 to care about the wider world: Security…

Reason #2 to care about the wider world: Genocide..

Kids given paper and crayons and drawing bombs..

If you attach the right antenna, WiFi goes about 5 miles.

Haier …washing machines used to wash vegetables.

Ikone…Islamic phone..

Huawei…bottom feeders, doing lots of business in Africa.

Open source tends to make you smarter. Brazil leads the way vis a vis hacking.

Reason #4 to care about the wider world: Globophilia.

Ethan as a rock star….

Zafar Iqbal Qadir…

Founder Taaleem Foundation..

Building social capital in South Asia..from darkness to light.

My apologies…had to work on some other stuff, and didn’t pay close attention!

Ingo Gunther

Artist…uses globes as a metaphor for art.

Neat map of Japan…vis a vis globes. Great, ideas…great maps. www.worldprocessor.org

Really brilliant stuff, incredible visualizations. We are seeing a series of slides that show us the visualizations vis a vis the world.

Excellent visualizations and great thought, really excellent. Go to his website, and look at the stuff.

 

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