Australia has over 600,000 not-for-profit organizations, and a quickly expanding “sharing economy” (e.g. Uber, Airbnb, eBay). Most of this is under the radar of news reports. What are the signs that NFP’s and the sharing economy can become a main career path for many when automation destroys half of normal jobs Australia & America in the next few years?
Monthly Archives: January 2016
11. AP8 What is your understanding of “Active Thinking”? What other kinds of thinking (human or non-human) are found in the known universe?
Over 140* people have now signed up to the Active Thinking meetup… So let us know (actively!) what you expect to happen when you and a 7 other people get together in the State Library to think actively about a chosen topic. How do you approach puzzling topics over and above giving a simple unexamined opinion? (And just for laughs, how might cyborgs think through things differently?) Um, what topics are you ready to think about actively?
[*postscript: Over 500 had signed up by a year later when I discontinued the series Most were ghosts who never came]
10. AP8 Adelaide seems to be a media-challenged city
There are road accident reporters, but there do not seem to be investigative journalists and insightful commentators who interpret the city to itself. What is to be done?