[Advisors] Let community re-think community

[Garth Graham]

On 2012-05-06, at 9:32 AM, James Van Leeuwen wrote:
> It says that Canadians still don't have the emotional and intellectual =
maturity for substantive discourse around morals and values.
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> It says we need to grow up.
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> On 2012-05-05, at 1:22 PM, Garth Graham wrote:
> .  What does a silence that's now 18 years deep say about the current =
content of public policy?

Just to shift direction a bit, here's a thought.  Remember that one key =
to hacking the future of community networking is to figure out what =
conventional wisdom is, and then do the opposite.  There's a special =
supplement in the April 21-27 edition of the Economist on "The Third =
Industrial Revolution," where manufacturing goes digital and therefore =
can ignore economies of scale.  It includes this quote:

> Communities offering 3D printing and other production services that =
are a little like Facebook are already forming online - a new phenomenon =
which might be called SOCIAL manufacturing.

Oh the delicious irony.  After a century of business telling the social =
sector to become more business-like, suddenly, the social sector will be =
telling business how to become more social!  Act fast, because 18 months =
from the switch point, the Chambers of Commerce will be claiming they =
invented it.

GG=