Social Change

Here is a link to an article on Community Mobilization about the decline of Barbie sales and how I link it to a similar decline of American creativity. This conjecture is based on conversations with toy designers, and their sentiments on the new buzz for the Holiday toy selection.

Wired has an article about the decline in population increase.  There are some serrious positive environmental consequences, and some serrious negative economic consquences involved with the drop in population.  See the entry here for thoughts and a link to notes from the presentations on demographics and world population at POP! Tech 2004.

Two Futuring and Innovation Center people have their own blogs. Check ’em out. Randy Moss has been writing for several months COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION: A clearing house for ideas on how new technology can mobilize communities. David Neff and his fiance just started wesayso just in time for Halloween,

In a speculative new mood last Jan. 1, I posted a list of WAGs (Wild A** Guesses) about what 2004 would bring. One was that people outside the US would try to influence the election. As the election approached and I saw no evidence of this I thought, “Well, you were wrong about that one.” But now it is evident ...