3D manufacturing could replace our mountains of wasteful commodities. A musician's take on the "end of stuff" ARTISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, 4TH SECTORpat kane3 December 2018
"Deep reading" is good for citizenship - but we need "deep screening" too. Time to cultivate a "bi-literate brain" A BETTER MEDIA, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INDIVIDUAL, LEARNING, PRACTICE, TECHNOLOGYpat kane29 November 2018literacy, education
Four days for work, three days for play. And both managers and workers can see the value NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGYpat kane28 November 2018shorterworkingweek, labour
Robots and AI: all the things they’ll do. We must apply our intelligence for the best result, says Martin Ford FUTURES, TECHNOLOGYpat kane26 November 2018artificial intelligence, robots
Vermont's Front Porch Forum is brilliantly successful at putting the Net at the service of communities COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, A BETTER MEDIA, 4TH SECTOR, TECHNOLOGYpat kane25 October 2018civic tech, civil society
There's 5 rebel money movements - and the "Crypto-Credit Alliance" (mutual credit + blockchain) is the most exciting NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNITYpat kane23 October 2018cryptocurrency, blockchain, holochain, local currency
We are in an addictive relationship with our social media tech. Design ethics can break that A BETTER MEDIA, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICE, TECHNOLOGYpat kane22 October 2018design ethics, design, design thinking
If our every click boosts the profits of Big Tech, how should the people and communities benefit? UBI? UBA? Small Tech? FUTURES, TECHNOLOGYpat kane19 October 2018holochain, platform cooperativism
We live in an age of transnationalisms. At Furtherfield, artists test all the borders ARTISTS, TECHNOLOGYpat kane12 September 2018contemporary art