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Title: A new book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising. Excerpt: By now, the looming dangers of climate change are clear to anyone who's been paying attention, covered extensively in both academic literature and …

How pandemic crises have contributed to change the course of history... Short article.

This video by Stephen Downes looks at change and technology during the pandemic and after, asking what it is we want to get from our educational systems, and what that might look like in the future. Lecture, Apr 28, 2020.

developing shared practice and changing behavior in transparent workplaces structured by reputation

Trying to change complex systems is best done with a delicate touch. The metaphor of "dancing" with a system captures this quite nicely.

"To continue advances in a Moore's Law Plus world requires co-engineering and a cooperative approach across the semiconductor industry with different manufacturers, working with academia, and open standards to create an easy-to-program environment. That is why I'm confident companies will be able to add more transistors, and manage the cost curve."

Transition Design brings together two global memes. First, the idea that entire societies must transition toward more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term futures and second, that these transitions will require intentional, systems-level change. We see evidence of these memes in the large number of transition-related initiatives springing up around the world, and the rise in the number of tools and knowledge sets aimed at understanding complex systems and systems problems.

" Google's announcement is a classic example of what you might call privacy theater: While marketed as a step forward for consumer privacy, it does very little to change the underlying dynamics of an industry built on surveillance-based behavioral advertising."

Maybe some inquirable tips about how to share knowledge?

Here you'll find people, processes, and tools to support your publishing efforts. You can use this platform to: start an open textbook project give and receive guidance on publishing open textbooks post and respond to calls for contributors, and connect with global communities that are changing the world through Open Education. We are making books to build communities, and building communities to make books. @JoeCorneli

The way one uses terminology is very important, e.g. A.I.

A new IFTF tool to analyze how climate, race issues, inequality interact and what we can do about it.

It's another of those moments when people to whom the Internet is still a distinctive and beloved medium fret that it's about to be violently changed into all everything they were glad it wasn't when it began

Will Facebook call itself... Meta... CAugs? Was Robert Best all along a Facebook operative? We'll find out soon enough!