Useful ideas and Questions

Three Questions:
Are the transformations which are taking place in the world today because of economy?

Is there still a bottom billion and is anything being done to improve their conditions? Is the condition of bottom billion the same everywhere regardless of which country they belong to?

In The Public and its Problems, John Dewey describes the necessary development of symbol systems that allow a community to connect through elevated communication. Do Film and photography introduce a whole new symbol system?

It is still prohibitively expensive to truly create knowledge for an individual. Knowledge assets are still copyrightable and patentable, their customization is only at the level of presentation. For example, I customize my google homepage to get news from CNN mixed in with analysis of the events from my favorite blogger and videos from youtube all filtered to my interests. That homepage is unique to me, yes, but it is composed of knowledge assets that are owned by different sources. Copyright and patent laws still apply. How and to what extent the existing laws need to be modifed for the third wave?


Three Useful Ideas:
1) According to John Dewey there are two important factors which can help the public to get rid of the eclipse and to attain a Great Community. One factor is that each individual should have the basic intelligence to engage in political affairs and the second factor is the idea of the individual who knows all situations which require political action.

2) In The Public and its Problems, John Dewey describes the neccesary development of symbol systems that allow a community to be connected through elevated communication.

3) Benjamin Franklin states that there are two important factors which can help the public to get rid of the eclipse and to attain a Great Community. One factor is that each individual should have the basic intelligence to engage in political affairs and the second factor is the idea of the individual who knows all situations which require political action. Do these factors apply to the world situation today?