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• A comment on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 9 2011: I would go with: what can/will I do with all the information that is easily available?
  
  And I would say that, because one of the different things that this generation has in comparison to previous ones is a greater access to an unprecedented amount of information about everything, so at least one of the questions I would put as important would be what to do with it.

• A reply on Talk: Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that

  Sep 6 2011: I understand what you mean by the idea of making personal information available in public, but to a kind of close public it might help you in times when you need more information, just like e-Patient Dave talks about in his TED talk, that actually took place in the same TEDx Maastricht: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dave_debronkart_meet_e_patient_dave.html

• A reply on Talk: Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that

  Sep 6 2011: Joseph, that seems quite interesting. Can you post some links about it?

• A reply on Conversation: What would be the effect on children and young people of a better merger between the current available resources and more coach parents?

  Jul 16 2011: Your long term thinking is really interesting indeed, but what we've seen so far is that there is always something new with each generation more or less. Do you think that a true plato in terms of social and generation wise is really going to happen? I believe that not completely, but in a sense that the common ground for the main life styles will be the same?

• A reply on Talk: Deborah Rhodes: A tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you

  Jul 14 2011: http://www.surgisphere.com/SurgRad/issues/volume-2/1-january-2011-pages-1-112/161-original-article-molecular-breast-imaging-for-women-presenting-with-a-history-of-non-reproducible-bloody-nipple-discharge-and-negative-findings-on-routine-imaging-studies-a-pilot-study.html
  
  here you have the link to it, it's the Journal of Surgical Radiology.
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  A reply on Conversation: What would be the effect on children and young people of a better merger between the current available resources and more coach parents?

  Jul 13 2011: The idea of getting back to a broader educator community is interesting. However nowadays it is quite different because the tribe is not personal and that lack of human interaction is something that has been talked a lot, Richard Saul Wurman has talked a lot about it in his last public talks.
  
  About kids growing up in new ways due to technology, I disagree with you because although understanding the point you've mentioned the fact is that the kid has a lot more independence and liberty to decide the way that he is going with and that is something new that can be good or bad. And I believe it could be better if the family was more involved in this process.
  
  Another interesting opportunity from this that you mentioned (being able to survive bad parenting) is also something I really feel its positive, because sometimes I find myself wondering how can some kid survive some parenting in terms of imposed thinking boundaries.

• A comment on Conversation: Improving the airline passenger experience in the entire travel thread

  Jul 11 2011: Addressing specifically your question: How can the passenger experience be improved though out the entire travel thread from home, airport to destination and back?
  
  I think that one possible way is to use SMS more. Receiving an SMS letting you know if the flight schedule is according to planed might be something interesting, because in spite of having that information on some websites, if you could get it by an SMS would be quite handy. Also it could remind you of some of the main tips for avoiding time in lines, like the liquids limitations and so on.
  
  About the experience during flights I only had two flights that had IFE, so I might not be the best help here, because the only thing I can think of is please spread it more widely!
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  A comment on Conversation: We often neglect everyday pleasures. What are some little things, specific to your life, that you enjoy?

  Jul 11 2011: An episode of a comedy series in the end of the day right before you sleep. Ending the day with a laugh is something great.

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think of Google plus? especially it's idea about circles?

  Jul 11 2011: Seems that I've talked too soon. I've just read an article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43705078/ns/business-motley_fool/) that says exactly the opposite of my opinion and it does, in fact, seem right. Nevertheless, I stand by my opinion in what regards the concept of a better social network with the idea of the circles or even an improved list system in Facebook.

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think of Google plus? especially it's idea about circles?

  Jul 11 2011: By chance, I've joined Google + today and got the opportunity to see in a better way the idea of the circles.
  
  In a general way I believe that Google + brings something new to the social media context. I believe that right now Facebook and twitter are our references and Google + kind of blends it together a bit. Perhaps, not so much about twitter because of its very specific genre. However, in what concerns Facebook, at a first sight Google gets the upper hand because it addresses the point of the security and privacy that Facebook is so much criticized about.
  
  The idea of the circles is really great, I think, and something that Facebook hinted a bit with its lists but that Google now uses fully, and that might make a difference, specially with the concern of explaining things step by step as Google + does.
  
  Regarding your question about the circles helping social relations in real life, I'm not so sure, maybe its not so problematic as Facebook and its privacy issues, but really improving social relations I'm still a bit skeptical in spite of admitting that the simple share of information might improve some how social relations. Nevertheless, maybe now the new social topic might be in which circle did you included some one in...