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Oxfam Australia says that climate change could leave up to 75 million people in the Asia-Pacific region homeless by 2050. The Future is Here: Climate Change says that these island nations are already suffering from drought, food shortages and rising water levels.

"Unless we act dramatically and act fast, science tells us our way of life is in jeopardy," [Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Kerry] said.

7.15.09 *We work best/learn best when it matters to us. 15 *Tools do't teach but they can change the way we teach. 22 *The schools we need [are] understanding driven. 40

7.15.09 *We work best/learn best when it matters to us. 15 *Tools don't teach, but they can change the way we teach. 22 *The schools we need [are] understanding driven. 40

7.20.09 *The media landscape that we knew, as familiar as it was... that professionals broadcast messages to amateurs is increasingly slipping away. *We are increasingly in a landscape where media is global, social, ubiquitous, and cheap. *...a world of media where the former audience are now increasingly full participants. *...media is less and less about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals and is more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups. *The really crazy change...the fact that people are no longer disconnected from each other. *The size of the network, the complexity of the network is actually the square of the number of participants. *As recently as last decade, most of the media available for public consumption was produced by professionals. Those days are over, never to return. *They [barackobama.com] had understood that their role with MyBO.com was to convene the supporters, but not to control their supporters.

In other words, one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191

*One of the reasons that Free is often so hard to grasp is that it is not a thing.... 34 *the social bonds ... tend to fray when the size of a group exceeds 150 (termed the Dunbar Number) 40 *our feelings about "free" are relative.... 56 *In the end it always seemed to be about a story--people like to see the beginning, middle, end, and plot of something.... 69 *in a digital marketplace, Free is almost always a choice. 72 *This "triple play" of faster, better, cheaper technologies--processing, storage, and bandwidth--all come together online, which is why today you can have free services like YouTube.... 78 *The point: Ideas are the ultimate abundance commodity, which propagate at zero maginal cost. Once created, ideas want to spread far and wide, enriching everything they touch. 83 *If the unitary cost of technology...is halving every eighteen months, when does it come close enough to zero to...round down to nothing? 89 *All information should be free. 96 *On the one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand, information wants to be free.... 96 *This is Googleplex, the headquarters of the biggest company in history built on giving things away. 119 *each data factory Google builds can do twice as much for the same price as the one it built about a year and a half earlier. As a result, every eighteen months the cost to Google of providing you with your Gmail inbox falls by about half. 121-22 CEO Eric Schmidt - Google's "max strategy" 'Take whatever it is you are doing and do it to the max in terms of distribution...since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well put things everywhere.' 123 *... one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191

FYI: I downloaded the audiobook of this title free from Audible.com. *One of the reasons that Free is often so hard to grasp is that it is not a thing.... 34 *the social bonds ... tend to fray when the size of a group exceeds 150 (termed the Dunbar Number) 40 *our feelings about "free" are relative.... 56 *In the end it always seemed to be about a story--people like to see the beginning, middle, end, and plot of something.... 69 *in a digital marketplace, Free is almost always a choice. 72 *This "triple play" of faster, better, cheaper technologies--processing, storage, and bandwidth--all come together online, which is why today you can have free services like YouTube.... 78 *The point: Ideas are the ultimate abundance commodity, which propagate at zero maginal cost. Once created, ideas want to spread far and wide, enriching everything they touch. 83 *If the unitary cost of technology...is halving every eighteen months, when does it come close enough to zero to...round down to nothing? 89 *All information should be free. 96 *On the one hand information wants to be expensive...On the other hand, information wants to be free.... 96 *This is Googleplex, the headquarters of the biggest company in history built on giving things away. 119 *each data factory Google builds can do twice as much for the same price as the one it built about a year and a half earlier. As a result, every eighteen months the cost to Google of providing you with your Gmail inbox falls by about half. 121-22 CEO Eric Schmidt - Google's "max strategy" 'Take whatever it is you are doing and do it to the max in terms of distribution...since marginal cost of distribution is free, you might as well put things everywhere.' 123 *... one generation's scarcity is another's abundance. 191