Seven Revolutions

Summary: Do the tools of social media make it possible for protesters to challenge their governments? Malcolm Gladwell argues that there is no evidence that they do; Clay Shirky disagrees.

This New York Times article describes the implications of achieving a global population of seven billion people and examines the possibilities for population growth and related issues into the future.

This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. Future Tense explores the ways emerging technologies affect society, policy, and culture.

The Globalist is supported, in part, by The Louis R. and Candice A. Hughes Charitable Foundation.

The Globalist is supported, in part, by The Louis R. and Candice A. Hughes Charitable Foundation.

Click on the water conflict map to see some of Al Jazeera's coverage of an issue which could define 21st century strife After droughts ravaged his parents' farmland, Sixteen-year-old Hassain and his two-year-old sister Sareye became some of the newest refugees forced from home by water scarcity.

A review of Eli Pariser's The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You

We have done some work with the Korbel School at Denver, and they have a simulation/modeling platform called IFs that allows you to test out some of the same assumptions we have in Seven Revolutions. I suggest you check it out.

Good information about the fact that we have the means to communicate across the world, but we are in fact getting more isolated in terms of what we are being reported and what we are interested in. Good extension from Alyssa Miller's talk

We love this article at KSU and use it each semester. Some use it as an introductory read to discuss the global challenges in general while others use it in GC 1 to talk more specifically about issues surrounding population growth. Well documented, thorough read that never fails to spark discussion.

Using the Google example, how are corporations acting with traditional nation states in today's interconnected world?

The new edition of The Economist is focused on Revolution One-- population.

This site discusses the growing elderly population in the U.S. and around the world. It also describes why this is happening, and how gender and racial trends are related to an aging population.

Roper Public Affairs, Educational Foundation Poll

As you look at the world, how do you see water as a function of development? How do droughts and floods play a role?

* Filmed: March 2007 * Running time: 22:36 * Description: E. O. Wilson discusses biodiversity and the need to think about and protect the many varieties of life. * Rating: Very good * 7-Revolutions: Resources (Biodiversity and conservation)

Jim Lewis compiled a list of recent attacks on the U.S. government. Interesting point to spark conversation, but is thin on event details.

Of All The People In All The World uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract population statistics to startling and powerful life. Each grain of rice represents one person, and piles of rice make up the populations being displayed.