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POPSStriking New Project Management Tools This productivity and management principle combines knowledge of projects with the biology of the human brain, designing a strategy which doesn’t just account for business practices – it also includes the limitations of your cerebral cortex.
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POPSTransparency means nothing without justice Cory Doctorow on cyber-liberties. it is probably one of the most pressing issues in today's world, our overall culture moves into a transparent society (see David Brin) and the only way we will survive it is if tranpartency indeed will be all-pervasive
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POPSConvicted Felon Leads in Alaska's Senate Race The voters are corrupt. “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” - David Brin “each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.” - Machiavelli
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POPSThe Future This is a special report that appeared on Forbes on 10.15.07 and has an impressive list of visionaries talking about the future. highly recommended reading. click the names to read the visions
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POPSGoogle Guy Goes To Space Where's Sergey's imagination? I was worth $18.5 billion I'd be building my own orbital mansion, not just renting a day trip.
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POPSThe Other Intelligent Design Theories I commented over at http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2007/03/vast-data-dump-of-misc-stuff.html about the BLOG Against Theocracy, and he suggested this article as something to use in case he didn't have time to get in on the BLOGSWARM. Great article at the source!!!!
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POPS6 -Word Scifi Stories We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.
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POPSSix Word Stories inspired by hemingway's famous six word story "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," great short stories by sci-fi authors.
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POPSHow to marry a billionaire? I thought the part about the cars they drive was the most interesting. Similar to what the author of the Millionaire next door states in his books.
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POPSStar Wars on Trial David Brin has turned his anti-Star Wars polemic into a book, co-authored with Matthew Stover, who defends Star Wars. This website promotes the book and also has forums to discuss it.
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POPSThe Real Cultural War This poignant, optimistic conclusion from David Brin's essay (on how fundamentalist ideologies lead to the destruction of Enlightenment values) was so good, I had to clip. (Please to direct pithy, dismissive comments elsewhere. Thank you.)
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POPSSF Author: John Boyd Haldane IV and Helix were a part of an ultra-rational society where mathematicians did not write poetry, where mathematicians did not fall in love with poets, and where most specifically, Haldane IV, young mathematician, couldn't possibly marry Helix, the attractive poet of his choice. It was in the best interests of the human race, said the State, that mates be selected for all professional people according to strict scientific principles. The Last Starship from Earth
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