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The World

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Viral does not equal valuable

Viral concepts travel faster than you or I could.  They seem to bounce from one hand to the next, one brain to the next, faster than comprehension can keep up.  They are fueled by the forward button and a thumbs up.  Their reach is only limitted by the network that they travel in. 
Every one will […]

“You’ve met too many people like you”

As far as I can see, this world is populated by more than 6.6 billion species of humans, each species with only one member.  While scientists would like to clump us all together under one name - Homo Sapiens - it seems like there is more difference, than similarities between us.  This diversity is wonderful but […]

We are not alone.

 
Its probably no surprise to most of us, but we are actually living on this planet with quite a large number of other people - in fact over 6.6 billion others.  Each of these people has their own brain complete with ideas, motivation, values and desires.  This is great when we think of the benefits […]

There is always something going on

One of the biggest bonuses about living our lives in the year 2007 is that there is always something going on.  Realistically, there has always, always been something going on, but until relatively recently we haven’t been able to see it. 
Our world is shaped roughly like a sphere and it spins on an axis, meaning […]

If only the world had a Stumble button

No matter how creative our thinking, and how diverse our range of experiences, we still tend to stick to familiar patterns.  Without thinking about it we go to familiar places, we meet with familiar people, we eat, watch, listen to and otherwise consume familiar inputs.  We are creatures of habit and this saves us from […]