Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Note by Mr. Jordan Raynor:
Robin Chase - For the last 8 years, Robin Chase has been working on ways to efficiently use scarce and expensive resources. She is founder and former CEO of ZipCar (car-sharing), founder and CEO of GoLoco (ride-sharing), and consults on wireless communication technologies to state and national governments at Meadow Networks. Websites: ZipCar.com, Goloco.org and MeadowNetworks.com.
The world is living with the fear of scarcity.
We yearn for abundance right now. This is derived from:
1. Difficult financial markets
2. Tight government budgets
3. Aging + New Infrastructure
We are financing our infrastructure from:
1. Gas taxes with prices as old as 1993
2. Congestion pricing
How can we solve the global warming problem? How can we solve rising fuel costs?
Our world's problems are opportunities for entrepreneur.
We must look at the cost/benefit analysis to these problems.
Abundance is when the benefits are more than the costs.
Right now, we are looking at costs in the wrong way - we ask ourselves, what can we cut out?
When we open up the web and make it more honest, innovation is improved.
She cited the zipcar as a good example of this
People can drive whatever car they want on whatever day they want. People are sharing their cars within a community
From a sustainability and global warming perspective, this is a great thing.
80% of the time, people drive in their cars alone. Why not share their excess capacity and make money (or save money) while doing it
In Bogota, they close 72 km of roads on Sundays for people to bike because no one was driving on the roads on Sundays.
The U.S. gov't will soon charge by the mile and engine type for driving on highways
We can have a national wireless network on the backs of cars
Look at the architecture of abundance
We must use less stuff and in the end we will be better economically for it
Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil is the Minister of Culture of Brazil, a Grammy award winner. During his term, the Ministry of Culture has developed a Digital Culture Program considered to be a landmark in Global and Social Technology.
Peeracy - peer-to-peer influence in politics
Since 2003 when he took office in Brazil they have been looking at digital technology as a cultural phenomenon.
In politics and governments, radical changes are only possible at specific cultural moments.
Culture offers society to achieve radical change by using new technologies.
Traditional politics is failing the advancement of democracy
The internet is creating a completely peaceful revolution
Peer-to-peer culture is arising and governments will have technologies that utilize this sooner or later. Governments need to jump on this now.
These movements do not depend on traditional politics. People are more and more eager to participate in politics in a new proactive way. This can be met by governments in peer-to-peer models.
21st century technology pose huge challenges to regulation.
Anyone with public responsibility has to look at digital dissemination of information and technology and enforce strict digital privacy laws.
We must be vigilant because digital technology can be used by governments against us.
Regulations should be there to ensure openness on the web.
We have brought peer-to-peer networks to about 700 communities in Brazil
Brazilians are recording their music and videos and putting them on the internet. This will bring a new generation of culture and authors on the internet in Brazil and throughout the rest of the world.
Van Jones - worked with police brutality in Oakland. Green For All - new approach to environmental problem
We are here to fix our nation
BAD NEWS:
1. Environment - Hansen came out today and said we are at the last moment to save global warming. Hansen was the guy who sounded the alarm originally on global warming.
Most of people who died in California fires were Latino farm-workers who didn't have the technology to receive a phone call to tell them to get out
Scariest channel today is the Weather channel
2. Economy - economy is in the toilet and stagflation is here!
Stagflation is the worst thing that can happen to the economy.
Last time we had stagflation, Dem controlled Congress and a Dem POTUS, it was Jimmy Carter
HOW DO WE BUILD THE ECONOMY WITHOUT FRYING THE PLANET?
We can stimulate the economy, create jobs, and save the planet all at the same time.
Solar panels everywhere
Manufacture energy
Detroit can go back to work by managing wind
Diversifying the market for energy
WHAT'S STANDING IN THE WAY?
The people who can solve these problems don't know who each other are and they have no way to communicate!
That is our job. To ensure they are able to communicate
All the parts are there to save the world but there is no platform to link people together
Americans love technology but they don't know how to use it. That is our job as well.
We are getting really good at getting a lot of information...but the next step is how do we AGGREGATE the data and the wisdom to reboot the country and the economy.
If we combine our knowledge and wisdom across the country and the world, we can get to a break-through and reach a "Green New-Deal"
If we can combine the green revolution and the technology revolution we can change the political landscape and achieve the country we have always wanted.
Kids are talking about America the Beautiful. It is time for us to defend America's beauty once again.
We are divided at the one time America needs to be united to solve the global warming problem and build a green economy.
We can not drill and burn our way out of these problems. AMERICA CAN INVENT AND CREATE
The world is living with the fear of scarcity.
We yearn for abundance right now. This is derived from:
1. Difficult financial markets
2. Tight government budgets
3. Aging + New Infrastructure
We are financing our infrastructure from:
1. Gas taxes with prices as old as 1993
2. Congestion pricing
How can we solve the global warming problem? How can we solve rising fuel costs?
Our world's problems are opportunities for entrepreneur.
We must look at the cost/benefit analysis to these problems.
Abundance is when the benefits are more than the costs.
Right now, we are looking at costs in the wrong way - we ask ourselves, what can we cut out?
When we open up the web and make it more honest, innovation is improved.
She cited the zipcar as a good example of this
People can drive whatever car they want on whatever day they want. People are sharing their cars within a community
From a sustainability and global warming perspective, this is a great thing.
80% of the time, people drive in their cars alone. Why not share their excess capacity and make money (or save money) while doing it
In Bogota, they close 72 km of roads on Sundays for people to bike because no one was driving on the roads on Sundays.
The U.S. gov't will soon charge by the mile and engine type for driving on highways
We can have a national wireless network on the backs of cars
Look at the architecture of abundance
We must use less stuff and in the end we will be better economically for it
Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil is the Minister of Culture of Brazil, a Grammy award winner. During his term, the Ministry of Culture has developed a Digital Culture Program considered to be a landmark in Global and Social Technology.
Peeracy - peer-to-peer influence in politics
Since 2003 when he took office in Brazil they have been looking at digital technology as a cultural phenomenon.
In politics and governments, radical changes are only possible at specific cultural moments.
Culture offers society to achieve radical change by using new technologies.
Traditional politics is failing the advancement of democracy
The internet is creating a completely peaceful revolution
Peer-to-peer culture is arising and governments will have technologies that utilize this sooner or later. Governments need to jump on this now.
These movements do not depend on traditional politics. People are more and more eager to participate in politics in a new proactive way. This can be met by governments in peer-to-peer models.
21st century technology pose huge challenges to regulation.
Anyone with public responsibility has to look at digital dissemination of information and technology and enforce strict digital privacy laws.
We must be vigilant because digital technology can be used by governments against us.
Regulations should be there to ensure openness on the web.
We have brought peer-to-peer networks to about 700 communities in Brazil
Brazilians are recording their music and videos and putting them on the internet. This will bring a new generation of culture and authors on the internet in Brazil and throughout the rest of the world.
Van Jones - worked with police brutality in Oakland. Green For All - new approach to environmental problem
We are here to fix our nation
BAD NEWS:
1. Environment - Hansen came out today and said we are at the last moment to save global warming. Hansen was the guy who sounded the alarm originally on global warming.
Most of people who died in California fires were Latino farm-workers who didn't have the technology to receive a phone call to tell them to get out
Scariest channel today is the Weather channel
2. Economy - economy is in the toilet and stagflation is here!
Stagflation is the worst thing that can happen to the economy.
Last time we had stagflation, Dem controlled Congress and a Dem POTUS, it was Jimmy Carter
HOW DO WE BUILD THE ECONOMY WITHOUT FRYING THE PLANET?
We can stimulate the economy, create jobs, and save the planet all at the same time.
Solar panels everywhere
Manufacture energy
Detroit can go back to work by managing wind
Diversifying the market for energy
WHAT'S STANDING IN THE WAY?
The people who can solve these problems don't know who each other are and they have no way to communicate!
That is our job. To ensure they are able to communicate
All the parts are there to save the world but there is no platform to link people together
Americans love technology but they don't know how to use it. That is our job as well.
We are getting really good at getting a lot of information...but the next step is how do we AGGREGATE the data and the wisdom to reboot the country and the economy.
If we combine our knowledge and wisdom across the country and the world, we can get to a break-through and reach a "Green New-Deal"
If we can combine the green revolution and the technology revolution we can change the political landscape and achieve the country we have always wanted.
Kids are talking about America the Beautiful. It is time for us to defend America's beauty once again.
We are divided at the one time America needs to be united to solve the global warming problem and build a green economy.
We can not drill and burn our way out of these problems. AMERICA CAN INVENT AND CREATE
