Forget about megawatts for a moment.
In a really interesting piece entitled Banality and Shakespeare’s Sister, Tara Hunts noted last week that:
We are [today] still at the interstices of public/private where there are those who either don’t choose to add their experiences to the record or who don’t have the opportunity to.
It’s a piece somewhat about Twitter and she manages to work in Virginia Woolf, a writer that fascinates me.
And then:
It’s a pity we get so caught up in our immediate desire for fame and ego boosting that we don’t realize that, in the long run, we are collectively contributing towards a much better future. Instead of duking it out for the top of the pops, we need to concentrate on building more attention tools to start to understand our world better.
… or the Philippine energy sector.
This week Hugh MacLeod posts his notes preparing for a talk in London and I find that one of his major themes is:
[Corporate] growth will come, I believe, not by yet more increased efficiencies, but by humanification.
These concepts, of course, are linked and the fact that I’m talking about this here, on my professional website, rather than on Mamutong, is important.
I think we’re talking here about having a “smarter conversation” and as Hugh says,
Having a “Smarter Conversation” is not an intellectual decision. It’s a moral decision.
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