Filling In The Gaps With Tim O’Reilly: some great insights (hat tip to Dug Campbell)
O’Reilly argues that the concept of a business that exists solely for the purpose of making money for its shareholders is fundamentally flawed. Every business has an obligation to create value.
Gerd adds: great summary of where the future of capitalism is going !
How Innovation Could Save the Planet | World Future Society
The problem is not the abundance of the energy; the problem is cost. Our technology is primitive. Our technology for building solar cells is similar to our technology for manufacturing computer chips. They’re built on silicon wafers in clean rooms at high temperatures, and so they’re very, very expensive.
But innovation has been dropping that cost tremendously. Over the last 30 years, we’ve gone from a watt of solar power costing $20 to about $1. That’s a factor of 20. We roughly drop the cost of solar by one-half every decade, more or less. That means that, in the sunniest parts of the world today, solar is now basically at parity in cost, without subsidies, with coal and natural gas. Over the next 12–15 years, that will spread to most of the planet. That’s incredibly good news for us.
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYh7oq
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYbpEt
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYh7qj
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYh7uU
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYbpMp
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYh7w9
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYbpP2
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYbpQ6
NGOs: from conversation to action Some key messages from Futurist Gerd Leonhard http://flic.kr/p/dYbpU8
