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From Hippies and the “Whole Earth Catalog” to Wired and the New Economy
When you want to learn more about the history of computers and the internet from a hippy counterculture and political thought perspective, this exhibition is a must!
Whooo… deeply recommended: The Whole Earth. California and the Disappearance of the Outside (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin) curated by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke.
Last Sunday, I have been to the Haus Kulturen der Welt to a guided tour by Anselm Franke himself through the whole exhibition! And I will go again as there is so much to connect, explore, and discover…
Close the Incubators and Accelerators, Open FabLabs and MakerSpaces instead
Africa needs more people with the skills to fabricate something than additional people with oratory prowess. Our continent has missed the industrial revolution and mass production manufacturing, but there is a new upcoming revolution based on digital manufacturing and 3D printing. It’ll be something so transformational that we can’t just afford to miss it. (More on digital manufacturing and 3D printing later) In this post, I’m calling African investors, individuals and governments to avoid putting more money in creating new accelerators or business incubators, for the simple reason that BEFORE you can incubate or accelerate you need to have something to accelerate. Accelerators are good ONLY if there is ENOUGH good universities and research labs around from where BUSINESS prototypes could sprout from. Unfortunately, most of the startups I see are “idea-based” startups, not “research-based” ones. Founder’s intuition-based-startup could eventually do well in B2C […]
StartupKenya.org Launches
By Roger Gichuhi
How many Startups are in Kenya, what do they do, where are they based? We often hear buzz around certain startups in boot camps and whenever major events are held, but after that it becomes a pain tracking them down.
http://www.ihub.co.ke/blog/2013/01/startupkenya-org-launches/
BBC - Future - Technology - Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years
As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150.
