Social Change

Here is an post from Comounity Mobilization on the use of facial recognition software in the fast food industry.

FI Center member June Chan’s position as Sino-ACS Liaison seemed like a good move. An article in the Jakarta Post titled “China, India poised to claim power” underscores that hunch. The author says that China, then India, will lead the next wave of globalism. They will become dominant figures in economics, politics, culture, and technology during the next several decades. ...

It appears this business of end of cheap oil is getting more attention. The title above comes from an article from a Harvard Business School e-newsletter I got this morning. The meme is getting around. So I pose the same question to the ACS: How do we prepare for a world without cheap oil? The reason I ask is because ...

So why hyperventilate, as I have, on FISpace—a blog re Society-related things—about possible oil supply peaks and about senior citizens edging-out teens for crappy jobs? Well, to me these are indicators about Mother’s Milk, about the stuff that makes the world go ‘round—money. For me it all goes back to a remark in one of Ed Duke’s original posts about ...