2012 - Time for Change

We certainly live in interesting times. Recognition of a living breathing Earth Mother is beginning to take hold as the reality of our shared and undeniable circumstance becomes increasingly evident. War, poverty and environmental degradation are no longer an option with the approach of 2012.

2012 is the event horizon. That year that pops up again and again as recognised in ancient civilisations and now in pop culture.

With 26 months ahead of us, rapid technological change promises to deliver much change between now & then.

And now - 2012 Time For Change - From Conscious Evolution to Practical Solutions

For Western Australia, a land that is drying up and growing its' population rapidly, only intelligent practical solutions will see us through.


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Cultural Connectivity & the Singularity

 

The Singularity is an emergent term that has been coined at a time of immense technological change, when our everyday realities become increasingly impermanent and transient.

The concept of a Singularity has until recently been used to describe a point where spacetime becomes so warped by the force of gravity that information cannot escape and the event horizon becomes empty or black. The use of the word Singularity in relation to technological change is a metaphor for the true use of the word and does a good job in helping us to imagine technological change that is so radical that it becomes increasingly hard to predict the future. It is worth remembering that only a few generations ago, one could pass through life without experiencing any significant technological change.

One of the primary areas where we experience technological change in our immediate environments is in our relationship with media, communication and the associated connectivity to our fellow humans around the memes and ideas that spew forth endlessly. We enjoy a communion of ideas in the medium of the internet.

Now while it is easy to focus on the new technologies with all their wiz bang features, it is harder to spot the seething undercurrents in the global psyche that look a lot like an emergent property. Up until only a few decades ago most informing was done with the aid of the passive medium of television and newspapers that relied on powerful elites for their reach. Now, even while mass market media still dominates even on the internet, the cracks are emerging and centres of influence are losing their grip. In a network without a centre, the hot fires of competition & lack of respect for intellectual property are setting fire to established power structures.

The new emergent mind is dreaming a thousand dreams and those dreams are infused with our passions, fears, hopes and archetypes. For the watcher, the density of exploration of ideas, even on the fringe seems to spark with apparent synchronicity.

For those who might choose to focus primarily on the physical phenomena associated with the singularity, the rich, multi dimensional psychic changes experienced by the masses as we are hurled into the future might go unnoticed, at least for a while.


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Why Rooftop Solar is Set to Explode

Distributed generation of renewable energy is off to a rocky start, but it's finally making some headway.

The research side is looking good. The $28 billion request in the US president's FY 2011 budget for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy includes large increases for programs including wind, weatherisation, smart grid technologies, and solar — plus $58 million for National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) infrastructure and $50 million to stimulate clean energy education.

An additional $300 million would support the Advanced Research Project Agency — Energy (ARPA-E) initiative. Modeled after the DARPA program that resulted in the Internet, ARPA-E will fund the fundamental research to incubate the energy grid of the future, what Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe termed the Enernet.

Yes, this is about the US, but we live in their shadow & adopt their technologies. The Internet was invented there but we all benefit.


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Smarter Cities Scan

Imagine a collaborative project involving hundreds of thousands of citizens sharing their ideas and knowledge and working together using leading edge technology to create solutions for building an intelligent city. Well imagine no longer because Smarter Cities Scan is here. Smarter Cities Scan is a collaboration portal setup by IBM using leading edge computer technologies.

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Tech evolution will eclipse the financial crisis


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