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Communities Rise From the Wreckage

July 22, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Some days it’s good to be reminded. I saw the aftermath of a terrible car and motorcycle accident a few days ago, and couldn’t help being caught in its blast radius because its impact reverberated almost to my doorstep. From the epicenter, … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: community, community building, helping communities, improvised roles, Nicholas Christakis, people helping, Rebecca Solnit, spontaneous helping communities

A Course Correction for the World Wide Web

July 15, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Emily was here for breakfast on Thursday and I had the morning’s news on public radio—the same stories staring at me from the front page of my newspaper—and she said with millennial weariness: Why are you listening to that? It was a good … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Entrepreneurship, Heroes & Other Role Models, Work & Life Rewards Tagged With: acting on hopes, Contract for the Web, data privacy, entrepreneurship, Inrupt, misalignment of incentives, personal online data store, Solid, Tim Berners-Lee

Citizens Will Decide What’s Important in Smart Cities

July 8, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

The norms that dictate the acceptable use of artificial intelligence in technology are in flux. That's partly because the AI-enabled, personal data gathering by companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon has caused a spirited debate about the right … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Continuous Learning Tagged With: Ai, artificial intelligence, Cass Sunstein, dataveillance, democracy, how change happens, norms, personal data brokers, personal privacy, privacy, Quayside, Sidewalk Labs, smart cities, Smart City, surveillance capitalism, Toronto, values

Democracy Collides With Technology in Smart Cities

July 1, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

There is a difference between new technology we've already adopted without thinking it through and new technology that we still have the chance to tame before its harms start overwhelming its benefits. Think about Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Continuous Learning Tagged With: capitalism, community outreach, democracy, dissent, Gees Bend quilts, Google, innovation, Quayside, Sidewalk Labs, smart cities, technology, tension between capitalism and democracy, Toronto, transformative technology

Dissenting Voices Never Fall On Deaf Ears

June 24, 2019 By David Griesing Leave a Comment

Hong Kong could still swallow the dragon. A cover story in the Wall Street Journal today was called "Hong Kong’s Flickering Hopes." “Flickering” because to Gerard Baker, the Journal’s “editor at large,”  it seems inevitable that … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: *All Posts, Being Part of Something Bigger than Yourself, Building Your Values into Your Work, Heroes & Other Role Models Tagged With: California, California data privacy law, changing hearts, changing minds, dissent, Jenga, personal action, taking a stand, Tankman, Tianamen Square

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