| Subject: Recent Essig column |
| From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com> |
| Date: 3/9/11, 20:09 |
| To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Among the inspiring 18-minute presentations at the TEDx Manhattan conference was an incandescent talk by Britta Riley about do-it-yourself research and development (R&D-I-Y) and the resulting urban window farm project.
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I realized each urban window farm is like a field in one huge decentralized, distributed community farm where expertise is exchanged, knowledge created, and friendships forged. The scale is not any one window; the scale is all the windows.
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So who can know where this will lead? But the fact that more people are getting interested in how technology can help us be better people and not just in how well computers can pretend to be people (like Watson and Jeopardy) means that something world changing just may be growing in those Mideast streets and urban windows.