I was involved in a very smart discussion yesterday about the protests around Wall Street.
As the project unfolds, we hope to build a community of interested people around each topic, and create a gathering point for a smart discussion involving voters, the campaigns and experts in the various fields.
EZRA KLEIN's review essay of new books by Jack Abramoff, an infamously disgraced super-lobbyist, and Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor, is a smart discussion of the role of money in politics.
The really good album, offered up with no fixed price, was a perfect bundle of content and concept: the album deserved the notice and the selling/not-selling idea generated a heated, smart discussion about the future of musicking, bundling, and monetizing.
I'd like to think that writing this would calm the storm and we could all start being productive human beings in a smart discussion about the value of each platform.
The problem is that this election has been dominated more by glib statements, heavily repeated rediculousness and terse quips than it has been a smart discussion of the issues.
A novel strategy that has emerged in the wake of J.J.C. Smart's discussions of identity theory is the suggestion that these apparent features of experience are not genuine properties "in the mind" or "in the world" but only the contents of mental representations (perhaps in a language of thought).
Visions of future electricity systems in Europe vary considerably in scope and scale, but while "currently political considerations and economies of scale seem to favour large solutions, the emphasis in smart grid discussions also focuses on local and regional solutions for the challenges electricity grids are facing" [39].
There's great optimism surrounding the smart city discussion, but that optimism seems to wilt whenever someone asks "Who's going to fund this?" The city certainly isn't going to, at least in the case of San Francisco.
