Alex Steed’s recent connective predictions post got us at Social Ch@nge thinking about the future of technology and civil society. Here’s our predictions for 2009 and beyond, based on some of the trends we’ve been watching at Social Ch@nge this year.
1) Cells will save lives
One of the things you will surely see more of is [...]
Estonia - the little nation that geeked the world. We’ve written about Estonia before - here and here - when, for example, they were officially the first country to suffer a full-on cyber attack. Now they’ve achieved another first: Estonians can officially vote using their cell phone. This isn’t entirely breaking [...]
You are a Facebook goddess, the fastest Twitter tweeter on the planet. Can you take your mad social media skillz and turn it into a job? How exactly would you describe that job?
I don’t know, but I came across a job posting the other day that seemed to sum it up for me: [...]
Right now, there are an estimated 300,000 children around the world who have been forced to take up weapons - many as young as 6 years old.
Since 1998, War Child Canada has been working to educate and mobilize Canadians on this issue. War Child is known for to creating innovative and unconventional outreach strategies, [...]
I’m really interested in how people that do not communicate the way I do are embracing and using the web. Using 2.0 tools, they are able to connect with their own community, and with people like me. Want to see what I mean? Check out In My Language on Youtube. When you have a tool [...]
You’d think with the election over, we would shut up about Obama’s internet strategy - but not so much. Because it turns out that an oft-quoted statistic about his campaign isn’t quite right. See, I went around telling everyone that small donors formed the bulk of his campaign contributions. I bragged about [...]
Are you a social media trysumer? A digital dilletante, you are constantly trying out all sorts of social media sites, online networks and forums. You flit from one to the next, finally settling on a few that work for you - for now. You are, rather literally, a social butterfly. You just might be the [...]
Everyone was all a-flutter earlier this week when Google introduced a new feature that allows you to vote search results up or down based on their accuracy and track it on a search wiki. The implication is that from now on the web will be a giant popularity contest where, if you haven’t been voted [...]
In the 19th century, do-it-yourself x-ray kits became popular as people x-rayed their own boots, hands, and plants (not to mention weirder stuff) to find out what the invisible world really looked like. Wired’s Alexis Madrigal has a great post about this featuring links to San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art’s Brought To Light: Photography [...]
Yesterday morning, 1.2 million people in 6 major US cities read a morning edition of the New York Times that was a little…different. The Times was dated July 4, 2009, and announced that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had ended; global warming was fixed; and the economy was on the upswing. Good news! Or [...]
