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BILL JOY on our Innovation Acceleration
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| 100 answers from Free Voices like Bill Joy now avaiable |
Among the 100 questions that Bill Joy answered at the Table of Free Voices were 13 questions about “Innovation Acceleration: Science, Technology and the Future.” Read what the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Green Technology investor, and the man Fortune magazine calls the “Edison of the Internet” has to say about the social impact of new media, local food, and why companies should insure against genetic catastrophes. Here are some (exclusive) transcribed excerpts of Joy’s answers from the “Innovation Acceleration” question session from the Table of Free Voices. Like all content from the Table, Joy’s answers are
Copyleft.
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20 September 2006 | 02.20pm (CEST) | posted by
Daniel | comment |
TAGS Economic Development & Globalization | Ethical Values & Responsibility | Education | Media & Information | Science & Technology | Environment | dropping knowledge News | Future
Writing on the Table
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| Willem Dafoe and Antoschka (Photo: Christina Voigt) |
For my own selfish reasons, I’ve spent most of my time so far on the dropping knowledge platform browsing the answers from writers. I’ve particularly enjoyed the thoughtful and honest answers from Pico Iyer, the UK-born journalist and author who has spent much of his adult life
travelling the world and writing what he has observed and felt.
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19 September 2006 | 02.56pm (CEST) | posted by
Valdis | 1 comment » |
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Seen through the “Eyes”
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| Thanks for not moving too much: permaculture expert Benjamin Fahrer was 1 of 8 I kept focused on. |
As a member of “The Eyes” I had the opportunity to work in the center of the Table of Free Voices. Each of us 14 people had to frame and focus 8 cameras catching the answers of the participants. Take a look inside…
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18 September 2006 | 05.57pm (CEST) | posted by
Daniel | comment |
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Alive, growing and evolving
We’ve been getting questions about the status and the future of dropping knowledge since last Saturday. What’s happening? What’s next? Just over a week after the event, there are now over 600 hours worth of answers from the Table of Free Voices online. This – let alone the insight, emotion, humor and honesty contained in those hours – already makes dropping knowledge one of the most dynamic and interesting sites out there. It now becomes a question of optimization and making the website more user-friendly so that people can see the value and potential for themselves – so they don’t have to take our word for it.
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18 September 2006 | 12.53pm (CEST) | posted by
Valdis | comment |
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Thank you to our Volunteers…
15 September 2006 | 12.43am (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 3 comments |
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A Revolution Of Conscious Creation
It’s been an exhausting week at dropping knowledge: awe-inspiring, tranformative, emotional. Believe me, you’ve no idea how much work it can be getting some friends together round a table sometimes…(!)
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14 September 2006 | 03.14am (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 4 comments |
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The Table Comes Full Circle…
This Table of Free Voices may have come to a close but others will be convened soon, hopefully all around the world — by you… All it takes is free voices come together — in a real space or a virtual one — to ask questions in order to understand, to answer them in order to share, to connect and dialog... Imagine the world as a circle, where a question from one point sparks an idea at another that inspires a solution at another, which is then returned to the circle… Imagine it and ask yourself what we may achieve by coming together to link, listen, learn and resolve to lead. Thankyou for being with us at OUR Table today… and tomorrow.. and in the future to come.
09 September 2006 | 07.09pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 5 comments |
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Our final theme…
‘The grand open game’, as Free Voice Jonathan Meese called it, is rounding up. We’re commencing our final theme, called A PERCEIVING EYE: Questions about Your View…
09 September 2006 | 05.48pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 4 comments |
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“We are in the Knowledge Age”
Tired but inspired, buoyed by rousing speeches from Ralf Schmerberg, a moving ceremonial song from Angaangaq ‘Uncle’ Lyberth, and a voice from the virtual world, the participants have returned for the final session. Our circle is complete once more…
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09 September 2006 | 05.18pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | comment |
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Enjoy the Silence
The Berliners and tourists who have gathered around the square are standing here calmly watching the event. The atmosphere is like nothing I have ever experienced before. With each question asked, people in the crowd seem to be taking a moment to think about it, to ask themselves. The extreme seriousness of the issues discussed is being conveyed by the quiet ‘mess’ of 112 Free Voices talking into individual microphones all at the same time. “This is an art performance of electrifying energy” says Michael, a berliner who has come to watch the event.
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09 September 2006 | 05.12pm (CEST) | posted by
Hili | comment |
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Free Voice Fashion
It may be worth saying a brief word about the sartorial diversity, elegance and sheer panache of our Free Voices. Notable fashion-items on show today include Oliviero Toscani’s luminous orange windbreaker, Donato Bay Bumacas’ feathered cap, Jodie Evans’ outsized
pink hat and Wim Wenders’ bright red shirt and shoes…
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09 September 2006 | 03.54pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 1 comment » |
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Brian J. Weller’s MIND-MAPS
The array of extraordinary people, ideas and exchanges all around me is overwhelming. An example: over lunch, I was lucky enough to meet Brian J. Weller and take a look at his extraordinary mind-maps, ingenious resources for fostering a well thought-out response to these challenging questions.
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09 September 2006 | 03.10pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 1 comment » |
TAGS Economic Development & Globalization | Education | Media & Information | Energy & Natural Resources | Environment | dropping knowledge News | Future
When people come together…
The lunch break is almost over but everybody is still engaged in conversation. The one response repeated by many of the fascinating participants today, is that this is very different to any forum they have ever taken part in before. Sitting at the table with so many different people representing different voices. One wants to exchange ideas with everybody. And everyone is so approchable, too. I took a seat on the stairs next to Michael P. Totten, one of the voices at the table.
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09 September 2006 | 02.50pm (CEST) | posted by
Hili | comment |
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From the Sidelines
I’ve been spending most of the first half on the perimeter of the Table, talking to some friends, organizers, volunteers and guests. Even though it’s great to be here, and even though I’m sitting about 15 feet behind Wim Wenders, Steve Earle and Jesper Green, I get the feeling like people watching on the Internet — some of them thousands of miles away — are just as close to the action as I am. That’s a good thing.
09 September 2006 | 01.07pm (CEST) | posted by
Valdis | 1 comment » |
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5-minute break: who’s talking to whom?
Dialogs have broken out all over… Participants talking to their neighbors or crossing the Table to connect: to my left, Bianca Jagger and Hans-Peter Dürr are having a lively chat, and they’ve just been joined by Udi Aloni… To my right, Roland Berger seems to be learning a thing or two from DJ Spooky… Behind me (right), Eliot Weinberger and Tachi Kiuchi are cracking jokes… Behind me (left) Raymond Federman stands between Neela Marikkar and Sanar Yurdatapan, all conversing smilingly…
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09 September 2006 | 12.50pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | comment |
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Politics of Violence (II)
These questions are hitting a nerve… The multilog’s loudened progressively over the course of this theme… Last question in this section, from Arundhati Roy…
Between non-violent resistance and armed struggle where do we go? What is effective? What is the right thing to do? Do we need a biodiversity of resistance?
Ask yourself…
09 September 2006 | 12.32pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 1 comment » |
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Notes from Bebelplatz II
I recognized the group of Israeli tourists in the audiance right away. Two couples in their fourties. There is a certain look about us, Israelis, that never escapes me. Always happy to chat in my mother tongue, I start talking to them. They’ve heard about the Table of Free Voices through an Israeli internet forum and were happy to realize that it coincided with their Berlin visit. We engage in conversation about Berlin, about Dropping Knowledge and the Table of free Voices event. But before I notice it, the break is over and the third round of questions begins: “Why is there no peace in the Middle East yet?” - We stop talking. The quesion resonants around our heads. One of the men starts going through the book of participants, to check, once again, who are the people about to answer this question. There are going to be 112 answers to this question and I can’t wait to hear them.
09 September 2006 | 12.21pm (CEST) | posted by
Hili | comment |
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The Eyes behind the Live-Stream
Apparently, ever more of you are joining us at the Table via live-stream (over 10,000 right now). Great to have you with us. You might be intrigued to know that the eyes you’re seeing through belong to Nicola Pecorini, Frank Griebe, Tom Henze and Jürgen Hohmuth (shooting with a zeppelin) — all of whom volunteered their services for the day…
09 September 2006 | 12.20pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 1 comment » |
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Politics of Violence (Second Session, Third Theme)
As the Table reconvenes after a thirty-minute break, everyone seems animated. A hush descends, and a new sense of gravity, as Willem Dafoe voices a statement from Hadeel Qazazz of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, to introduce our third theme,
Politics of Violence…
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09 September 2006 | 12.01pm (CEST) | posted by
Joe | comment |
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A Phenomenal Convergence…
When we sit in a circle we are connected. At the Table today, people from over 50 countries worldwide are linked by geometry and by activity: the ongoing flow of question to answer (to more questions and more answers). What’s happening around me is neither monolog nor dialog. It’s multilog, with the chimes of St. Hedwig’s acting as metronome on the hour…
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09 September 2006 | 11.30am (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 1 comment » |
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Power to the People
I was standing with the people outside the square and feeling somewhat uneasy. The crowd is complaining: The Table is so close, yet so inaccessible. We can’t hear the participants’ answers or even see their faces. People sitting at their computers at home can get a better look at what’s going on… Oh, no! Have we got lost in technology and forgotten to make this ‘open forum for the people’ also directly accessible to the people, without the need of a technological medium? I went to the communication room to see what can be done and after a short brainstorming we have decided to go out there with our laptops and stand within the crowd, allowing for small groups of people to watch the view from the center of the table, each at a time. Let’s see if it works.
09 September 2006 | 10.53am (CEST) | posted by
Hili | 1 comment » |
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Introducing… our second theme…
We’re into theme 2 — ‘Conscious Recognition: Questions about Ethics and Responsibility’. To explain, 100 questions donated from all round the world have been divided into 8 categories, each containing around a dozen questions. To introduce each theme, dropping knowledge asked organizations and individuals (some of whom were invited but could not be here today) to contribute by giving us a statement.
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09 September 2006 | 10.45am (CEST) | posted by
Joe | 1 comment » |
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Take five
As the first round ends here at the Table of Free Voices, some quick observations. Questions about economic development and globalization seemed a good way to kickoff what will be a long, but great day here. The sun coming out also seems to have helped warm up the participants.
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09 September 2006 | 10.30am (CEST) | posted by
Valdis | comment |
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An Inside View (II)
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| The Square within The Circle |
09 September 2006 | 10.29am (CEST) | posted by
Joe | comment |
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An Inside View…
To put you in the picture, I am sitting at circle-center, at the focal point of the Table’s energy field, immersed in a chorus of Free Voices coming from all directions…
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09 September 2006 | 10.18am (CEST) | posted by
Joe | comment |
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