We should take a trip across the country. I would happy to translate for you. :>))
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:33 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China Thanks Ray, The next trip in fact is south (far south to Brazil ;-) The thing about social phenomena in China at the moment is that so much change/development is happening in real time... Visible on the streets... And yes, I'm quite sure there is an Ant Tribe in the US (slackers?) but because things are moving rather more slowly there and you have the media fog obscuring things it may be rather more difficult to see. In China, the (English) media is rather less subtle (more like a driving rain than a fog) and so it is easier to raise an umbrella and see at least the outline of things. (I should say that having access to my son's Mandarin skills and knowledge of contemporary China made any insight I might have had possible. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Harrell Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 7:51 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China Mike, I just read your wonderful article. I would be interested in such a report from your travels in the U.S. Your analytical intellect would make such a report very interesting to me personally. Also, the issue of language that you commented on in China is not a general issue here although the same words mean vastly different things based in colloquial realities. We too have our ant people here. People with little capital, inferior to good and even great higher education but a total lack of an ability to use connections to create things. I believe the last such "analysis" I read of such "ant" people was a novel by Thomas Hardy called "Jude the Obscure". How about it? Turn your spotlight on the down South. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Gurstein Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 4:20 PM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] New Blogpost: Community Informatics in China (Some additional thoughts/comments from my recent trip to China... Coincidentally just published 30 minutes ago ;-) M http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/some-thoughts-on-community-informat ics-in-china/ "An even more intriguing possibility would be the fusing of existing rural (political) organizational structures with ICTs and envigorated with new blood from the "ant tribe" and other young people with Internet and ICT skills leading to a rural renewal, extended service delivery and both more efficient and sustainable agricultural and SMME and SME developments. Perhaps once the attention of the Chinese leadership shifts back from the explosive developments in urban areas similar structural developments might begin to be seen in rural areas and among lower income populations as well." _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
