Emergent Futures Tumblelog

This is the Tumblelog of Paul Higgins and Sandy Teagle - Futurists from Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia. Go to Emergent Futures to see more or follow on Twitter at FuturistPaul . If you right click on the pictures, titles or links in these posts you will be able to go to the original story on the web. If you click on comments for each post you can either read what others have said or add your own comment via Disqus. If you click on the date of a post it will take you to a single post view where you can copy the web link if you want to send it to someone else. If you click on the tags it will take you to other stories from Emergent Futures with the same tag.

September 17th 2011

Stowe Boyd: Deb Lavoy On A New Age Of Enlightenment

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stoweboyd:

Deb Lavoy shows that she is a humanist, and her fascination with what she’s calling Enlightenment 2.0. I agree with everything except the 2.0 meme. Just replace ‘Enterprise 2.0’ with ‘social revolution’, and ‘Enlightenment 2.0’ with ‘the Liquid Economy’. She’s not talking about spiritual…

Posted at 7:55pm and tagged with: deb lavoy, humanism, liquid, liquid economy, liquid media, xl,.

September 9th 2011

Stowe Boyd: The Rise Of Rōnin and The Liquid Economy

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stoweboyd:

Sara Horowitz, the founder of the Freelancers Union (through which I get my health insurance, by the way), makes the case that we are moving into a new US economy where ronin (or freelancers) are becoming a significant force:

Sara Horowitz, The Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of…

Posted at 7:52pm and tagged with: freelancers, liquid, liquid city, liquid economy, liquid work, rōnin, solid, swift trust, the future of work,.