<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>co-society</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.co-society.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.co-society.com</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:00:47 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3778</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Economy of objects</title>
		<link>http://www.co-society.com/2010/09/economy-of-objects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.co-society.com/2010/09/economy-of-objects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcompte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.co-society.com/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The economy of consumerism promotes our constant purchase of (mostly useless) household items. The ridiculously cheap (so we are told) production of all sorts of objects, in countries whose labour legislation would fit on a cigarette paper (in a size 28 font), means that we have at our disposal a range of the most pointless things – from biros, kitchen utensils(?), keyrings or wind-up walking dentures – at stupid prices. Most people used to own one watch. Today we have at least 10.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.co-society.com/2010/09/economy-of-objects/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The future as a product of imagination and infrastructures</title>
		<link>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/the-future-as-a-product-of-imagination-and-infrastructures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/the-future-as-a-product-of-imagination-and-infrastructures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcompte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.co-society.com/?p=793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I had a very interesting conversation with Michael Schrage. According to him, the future of cities was in the “shrewd” combination of imagination and infrastructure. Often, he told me, a city has plenty of imagination but no infrastructure, or good infrastructure with no imagination.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/the-future-as-a-product-of-imagination-and-infrastructures/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Womenomics</title>
		<link>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/womenomics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/womenomics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcompte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.co-society.com/?p=782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the coming decades, Europe will suffer from a noticeable decline in qualified professionals (by 2030, we will be short by some 30 million), who we will be unable to replace with skilled immigrants, because upcoming countries will be offering new opportunities to their citizens that will eliminate the brain-drain of previous times. While this is going on, half the women in the Western world with scientific and technological backgrounds will voluntarily abandon their professional careers at around the age of 30 with the apparent aim of starting a family. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/womenomics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mass imitation or collective intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/mass-imitation-or-collective-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/mass-imitation-or-collective-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcompte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.co-society.com/?p=743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We used to accuse the Japanese of being copycats, and now we turn on the Chinese. But the truth is that we have all become imitators. Management books are commonly nothing more than prescriptions of successful casuistry. And the biographies of successful company directors have become the new business <em>bibles</em>. The theme is simply how to do it like those who have (apparently) done it well.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/mass-imitation-or-collective-intelligence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The challenge of triple A</title>
		<link>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/the-challenge-of-triple-a/</link>
		<comments>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/the-challenge-of-triple-a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcompte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.co-society.com/?p=730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book, <em>A Whole New Mind</em>, Daniel Pink tells us that the survival of a business depends today on its ability to do something that a (cheaper) workforce in another country cannot do, that computers cannot do faster, and that satisfies the need for transcendence in an age marked (in the developed world) by abundance (excess). Pink has named three <em>demons</em>, the “triple A”: Asia, automation, and abundance.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.co-society.com/2010/08/the-challenge-of-triple-a/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Towards transversal nations</title>
		<link>http://www.co-society.com/2010/07/towards-transversal-nations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.co-society.com/2010/07/towards-transversal-nations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcompte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://localhost:8080/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I surprised a colleague from the US with an apparently trivial question, “Where are you from?” She looked at me, “What do you mean?” she asked. “Where was I born? Where did I go to school? Where do my parents live? Where do I live now? Where do I feel like I belong? Where would I like to belong?” The string of answers she gave me made a net all over the globe, because her father was a diplomat who had passed through half the world’s embassies. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.co-society.com/2010/07/towards-transversal-nations/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Middleground</title>
		<link>http://www.co-society.com/2010/07/middleground/</link>
		<comments>http://www.co-society.com/2010/07/middleground/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mcompte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ideas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://localhost:8080/?p=1</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For society to maintain its level of well-being and progress, it must join its talent with its resources, and its dreams. It must break the paradox that has been persistent throughout history, summed up by Alfred Whitehead: "Those who have money have no ideas and those who have ideas have no money". It makes sense to connect these two economic poles of society: the solid, established companies (the <em>upperground</em>), and the weaker, upcoming initiatives (the <em>underground</em>).]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.co-society.com/2010/07/middleground/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
