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I'm passionate about

Brain development, Region development, Transmedia Storytelling, Gamification of societies basics.

An idea worth spreading

Book some Food. It'll save your world.

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Anything on embracing youth and regional potential

People don't know that I'm good at

Waking up 10 seconds before sunrise. (Tiesto)

My TED Story

KIDS : I worry about the schools of our children. Our toddler of 2 masters the iPad, and is getting bored of ‘aim and click’ games. He will enter primary school with iPad 4. Learning for him is a whole different realm. I was bored in highschool, he will be more. University will freak him out. Technology is half the solution for next 10-15 years, a whole new method the other half. But what is it?

LEADERS : Most of todays organizations can’t seriously look into the future and there is nobody to blame; looking at history we are just going through a normal, cultural pattern of diversification. The result is falling down to barbarianism. We just need to keep our heads cool on top of the mountain we build and hope we put enough cams along the way to break our natural fall.

COMMON : The challenges for kids and leaders have a lot of similarities, broadly speaking they both enter a new realm, both unprepared, both willing to learn and having fun while discovering life as it is

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• A comment on Conversation: human specialists call center and portal that will replace the existing computer based search engines and that gives you qualified answers

  Oct 13 2012: great to read you are also for a while into it, the idea is easy, it is about the time when people are happy with change. Guess it is about time.
  
  To all passing by readers, as this is a conversation; Anybody else wondering about how ideas/knowledge/goods can better circulate locally, improving the national/global system as a whole?

• A reply on Conversation: human specialists call center and portal that will replace the existing computer based search engines and that gives you qualified answers

  Oct 12 2012: I understand the technocratic approach, as this sounds like business, also in my opinion. However I learned it is hard to take off if new knowledge+new format+new process is offered, it doesn't fit in company information need processes.
  
  So my question is, did you try something local, a company (small or big) is helped with knowlegde you gathered manually and presented to him/her manually?
  
  Next week I am back in Arad and planned to try something on the phases I mention.
  
  BTW; I once did a TEDconversation topic on 'can we take best from capitalism and socialism'. It is a hobby since 2003 I guess, being amazed how the West way was adopted and the East way 100% forgotten. More and more people I talk to in Romania wonder if they can combine best from two memories. It is only one generation who can, people between 25-65. I hope some people will start, somehow. Thanks for invite, keep me posted.
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  A comment on Conversation: human specialists call center and portal that will replace the existing computer based search engines and that gives you qualified answers

  Oct 12 2012: You make a point, and we need to tackle this. This first phase is googles; It was/is googles mission to make all information available. Words and numbers connected but not yet in-formation.
  
  Your proposal to have humans come up with better answers I agree, Wikipedia is a good 'practice' on things are on 'stock', geography, history, thoughts. The second phase. Use technology to get what we know shareable structurally.
  
  The third phase is starting now. And your network is needed for that. Yahoo answers gives answers, but the investment to create an answer is bigger than the questioner values. For corporations there are the business 'intelligists' and data journalists to come up with on demand answers.
  
  Crowd sourcing commodity intelligence is the start, what needs to get organized fast, let me know if you plan something in Campina.

• A reply on Conversation: If you could name a Counsel of 12 to govern the world, who would you name?

  Jul 13 2012: Hi Lindsay, only read this one now :)
  
  So not 12. Would be nice though, even if they wont lead, at least they can lead youths imagination that these are 12 people to google themselves into.

• A reply on Conversation: If you could name a Counsel of 12 to govern the world, who would you name?

  Jul 13 2012: My humble opinion;
  
  The nationstate is an idea which became a tool for prosperity, of the few, taking all on the bandwagon if beneficial. Which in the end always is the case.
  
  Any entrepreneur, small or humongous splits the world between 5-12 regions, depending on it's focus.
  
  As companies/collaborations always have dictated political discourse, naturally, the few are starting to see bigger benefits in small county level regions (between 20-200 miles, depending on population densities) and the 5-12 regions.
  
  How this will unfold, time will tell, and will benefit the (rich) few, taking all on the bandwagon again.
  
  One thing is important for this to happen; vision by a few. A bright light at the other side of the tunnel we are currently globally are going through. Vision has nothing to do with money, left-right politics, democracy, dictatorship, those are all technical tools.
  
  And I guess, hope, those are the 12 you are looking for. Looking forward to the endlist :)

• A comment on Conversation: If you could name a Counsel of 12 to govern the world, who would you name?

  Jul 12 2012: Frans Timmermans inspired me once through an after TEDxAmsterdam interview, the earth needs a government on each continent, and representatives should sit at one table. He understands how we should embrace 'fear', a very important aspect in (global) governance.
  
  Zoe Weil wondered for a long time why she loves the star trek enterprise series; it is the story that everything is in peace on this planet, making star trek the new challenge for humans. I guess we really need that dream to create balance on earth.
  
  So I would candidate these two, for various reasons what the stand for, to be understood and learned from on every world region.
  
  Than ofcourse,
  
  we will never sacrifice (global) human survival for (global) nature needs, so we have a long way to go to 'govern' at all. :)

• A reply on Conversation: What is the value of gaining a higher education?

  Sep 7 2011: I was told government funded education exists because groups of people creating products and services need skilled workers to create and invent new for society demands.
  
  The transparency that the government forms this bridge between generations is diffuse at the moment. It is education because of the sake of education, too little learnings have implicit or explicit value for a community.
  
  I believe we need to rethink all together what education is useful for you and us, has meaning and value for 21th century communities.

• A reply on Conversation: What are the best ways to stop wasting water?

  Aug 31 2011: 'Let the polluter pay' is a big thing in Europe, law enforcement is quite strong as national companies are not wired well (yet) with european law making to influence/lobby. Hope it will stay.
  
  I still thought on word of mouth on the issue 'illegal rain water collecting'; A fake campaign a government wants to make air conditioning illegal. Even airco in the car. "You are not allowed to take air from the air to cool it for personal or corporate use. Opening two windows at the same time? If we catch you, we close one window forever." ;)

• A reply on Conversation: are the ideas presented on here automatically belonging to the website?

  Aug 28 2011: Ideas are spreading freely, that is great.
  
  Authorship rights seem to apply I was told by TEDstaff once. You cannot simply copy-paste comments and 'own' it, make a book for example of great comments without authors permission.
  
  Things changed?
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  A reply on Conversation: A disproportionate few wealthy people own or control most of of the world's wealth. There may be a reasonable way out.

  Aug 28 2011: Thank you Thomas, that is a very nice butterfly effect story. People and communities can be stuck in routines and a simple 'pinch' from outside can make a lasting difference.
  
  The Mill is a very nice romantic example, industrialization is mechanization and I was told many started with doing the math on the cheapest way of labor to operate machines, first moving slaves from the fields, later children. Now we have the situation how little can we pay so people stay healthy and keep on coming to work.
  
  The "natural inclinations" point you make is the way forward I think for this thread. A BHAG for wages is hidden in there probably for us.
  
  Don't have the answer, though it surely makes me think.