Once I got caught…..@ TED2009
Posted in: Innovation, Personal Tags: Belonging, Connecting, Creativity, Humanity, Prosapience, TED2009, TED@PalmSprings
This is my TED2009 story [TED = technology, entertainment and design]. It aims to give you a sense of what it feels like to be there. Some of this may seem like an insider’s story and I apologise for that. For 3.5 days we watched, heard, tasted [those who got the bread in Long Beach [...]
TED@Aspen 2008
Posted in: Innovation Tags: Belonging, Connecting, Creativity, Humanity, Prosapience, TED2008, TED@Aspen
What is it when your mind is whirling with ideas from many gorgeous passionate performances on stage, you meet wonderful people at every turn, you are in a beautiful location, the sun is shining and your heart says thank you – It’s TED in Aspen Colorado, end of February early March 2008. As you see [...]
Ageism on the net
Posted in: Foresight Tags: ageism, Belonging, Connecting, Future, human, Prosapience
I have been wondering whether I was the only one getting annoyed by some of the ageism on the net… Today I found out at the Enterprise 2.0 Future Exploration that no I am not the only one getting tired of this simplistic cop-out or even worse, ageism by hiring only those under 45, cause [...]
If it can happen in Finland it can happen anywhere
Posted in: Life Tags: balance, Belonging, Continuity, freedom, human, Humanity, nation building, proactive society, Prosapience, rights, society
Where balanced people go hunting and not so go on a rampage…. figuring who’s who in the zoo One month ago a student killed eight people at a school in Jokela, which is a small town about 50km from Helsinki the capital of Finland. He then killed himself, which, according to Finnish experts was what [...]
How we love the things those we love love
My father loved his books Our home was always covered in books. Wall to wall books. Even our kitchen had a whole bookcase on something else he loved, cooking. My mother is the ‘chef’ and my father was the chef of the occasional day. I shipped 30 boxes of books from Finland to Australia in [...]
Teleportation
Posted in: Foresight Tags: augmentation, Belonging, brain, Connecting, kurzweil, serendipity, singularity, teleportation
The molecule road or the parallel universe road My friends and loved ones are all over the world. I have a number of day dreams about how to be closer to those people more often. One of those dreams is to have a place in France where we will host a month of open doors [...]
Ponderings on a balanced society…
Posted in: Life, Personal Tags: apathy, Belonging, conscious capitalism, crisis, education, finland, foundations, Innovation, pendulum swing, politics, privacy, ramble, societal change, values
A happy society? What makes that happen? Where is the good model? Some dimensions to bring about the conditions I lived through an amazing transformation in Finland during the 90s. It did require a good level of consensus but it was helped by a crisis. In the early 90s companies, like Nokia, and the whole [...]
Home sweet home
Travelling for business is made easier by a return to a home Living amongst the rainbow lorrikeets and kookaburras for the last 10 years has been wonderful. We have had a little paradise on earth only about 15-20min from Sydney center. Now we are looking at changing our lifestyles to more city living or maybe [...]
On far and near worlds
Posted in: Life, Personal Tags: Belonging, emergent, expression, far worlds, Humanity, near worlds, pragmatic
Defining the meaning of far and near in the context of this site…and maybe other…let’s see The name far other worlds for this blog came about in a chat with a friend. I had started with a name like tuning to musings, which did not seem to gel with the experienced blogger. He asked: What [...]
The impact of where you live…
I am interested in the many ways people seek for ‘home’ and a sense of belonging or seek for adventure and excitement in their lives through living in, at extremes, one place all their lives or at the other extreme for example in other people’s homes, moving around every 6-12 months. There are anecdotal articles, [...]
Finnish Independence Day – 6th of December
Not a bad day to start blogging. There is some meaning to this as I was born in Finland and my blog is called far other worlds…….and I live about as far away from Finland as one can get, in Sydney Australia.
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