My Vision: A New City
Nobody has any idea what 50 years of compounded friendly-ambitious-nerd switchboarding + modern media tools can look like. It's never been done. Montaigne and Emerson were better FANs than I'll ever be, but they didn't have Twitter. I see it as my duty to uphold their tradition.
Visakan Veerasamy • visakanv's 50yr "plan" for global nerd network [wip]
. For those with faith in public policy, the city emerges as the main level for experimentation[287] in a world where the the state has shrunk from its role as a positive agent of change. That’s because most social innovations in history were first implemented at the local level, either by the authorities, by activists, or by individuals themselves
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Silicon Valley is the canonical example of economic agglomeration. The knowledge of how to build, program, and operate computer components was a shared, scarce resource in the early 1960’s. Programmers and technicians often moved between companies, transferring best practices. This collaboration caused companies to release products with complementa... See more
Xing Quan Zhang • The Economic Role of Cities
