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America's Crumbling Infrastructure
Not to be all reactionary, but the recent disaster in Minneapolis reaffirms our need for a reappraisal of America's roads, bridges, and public works in general. How can something like this happen in the world's most powerful nation? Perhaps, as my colleague Paul Barker has suggested, we should force the largest corporations to pay taxes more appropriate to their levels of profits (and not just siphon them off into off shore bank accounts and CEO benefit packages) and then have more money to pay for repairs. But then we'd have to make sure the repairs actually happened and the money didn't just line the coffers of some crooked contractors.....oh, the problems......think I'll just go crank up my guit-box and escape for a while....
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www.paulhawken.com
Also Massivechange.com. Bruce Mau suggests that we can't wait on government, which hasnt't changed its methods in 200 plus years. Culture and information on the other hand are changing exponentially without waiting on politicians. Mau believes a peaceful cultural revolution is already under way.
I believe - it's slow but certainly is happening in my work. Just too bad we can't flip a switch and everything be cool.
"What is Massive Change? Design has emerged as one of the world's most powerful forces. It has placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility, where all economies and ecologies are becoming global, relational, and interconnected.
In order to understand and harness these emerging forces, there is an urgent need to articulate precisely what we are doing to ourselves and to our world. This is the ambition of Massive Change.
Massive Change is a celebration of our global capacities but also a cautious look at our limitations.
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No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes. Engineered as an international discursive project, Massive Change: The Future of Global Design, will map the new capacity, power and promise of design.
Massive Change explores paradigm-shifting events, ideas, and people...We need to evolve a global society that has the capacity to direct and control the emerging forces in order to achieve the most positive outcome. We must ask ourselves: Now that we can do anything what will we do?"
I think Mau's notion of the power of "design" and the evolving concept of the power of "music" [in an expansive rather than technically restrictive sense] are totally at one with each other.
The growing Fuzz community should speak to these points.
http://www.fuzz.com/fan/TheCapitalClinic/blog/Music-Without-Borders